Rachel Laudan

Spinning, Grinding, and Social Change

By Rachel Laudan January 10, 2014 Bread, Food History, Food Politics, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Grinding 9 Comments

I’ve long thought that I should read more about the history of clothing. It parallels the history of food in so many ways. The raw materials for cloth (flax, cotton,…

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Cooking. What’s Involved and What That Means

By Rachel Laudan August 9, 2013 Food History, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens 2 Comments

I continue with the exploration of cooking as all the operations humans use to turn raw materials into something edible, digestible, and nutritious (while realizing some of my readers may…

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Grinding, Metates and Sex

By Rachel Laudan January 25, 2013 Grinding, Mexican Food 11 Comments

Did I mention that  backbreaking labor was not the only burden borne by women who ground in Mexico? Now this gem (thanks to Michael Coon and Tacopedia on FB)  …

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