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What Should be Taught in School Cooking Classes (Assuming They Should Be Reinstated Which I Doubt)

By Rachel Laudan March 30, 2020 Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens, Modern Food 20 Comments

In January I put together a tentative syllabus for a school cooking class directed at early teens. I thought then it might seem ridiculous so I did not post it.…

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Reading and Pondering: Food for Crossing the Gobi Desert in the 1920s

By Rachel Laudan July 21, 2017 Adventures, Mainly Culinary, Food History 11 Comments
Reading and Pondering:  Food for Crossing the Gobi Desert in the 1920s

What did travelers in the Gobi Desert eat on days when they had a thirty-mile trek from one oasis to the next? Four bowls of undercooked noodles with crushed garlic…

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