Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

Yes, Cheese Was Made 7,200 Years Ago. What Really Matters, Though, Is How Food Processing Brought About Wider Changes in Human Life

By Rachel Laudan September 12, 2018 Farming, Food History, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens 6 Comments

Discovering that something–cheese, in this case–goes back further than we thought is always a headline grabber. Ancient cheese has been all over the popular science headlines for the past few…

Was the Agricultural Revolution a Terrible Mistake? Not If You Take Food Processing Into Account

By Rachel Laudan January 21, 2016 Food History, Food Politics, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens 34 Comments

The agriculture-as disaster theory rests, at least in part, on ignoring the work involved importance of processing and cooking food

Just eleven plants out of thirty thousand

By Rachel Laudan January 19, 2012 Food History, Food Politics 8 Comments

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven – corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats –…

Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

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