Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

The Pizza Effect

By Rachel Laudan May 24, 2014 Food History, Food Politics, Modern Food 17 Comments

I’d never heard of the pizza effect. That is, until Bob Lucky commented on my Cornish pasty post.* The Cornish pasty’s export to other parts of the world with emigrants,…

Of Cowboys and Indians and Nineteenth-Century America

By Rachel Laudan June 13, 2013 Food History, Globalization Then and Now, Hawaiian Food 9 Comments

What could be more American than gliding along perfect roads at eighty mph, roads so perfect that the dry, rocky terrain slips past like a movie? I’ve been doing a…

Why White Bread and Maize Were/Are Preferred (Again)

By Rachel Laudan November 30, 2011 Bread, Food History, Food Politics, Grinding 11 Comments

Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard’s father and head art teacher at the Sir Jamsetje Jeejeboy College of Art in Bombay, founded by the epynonymous Indian benefactor, reflects on the Indian peasant diet.…

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