Goodbye concentrator, farewell rollator - Rachel Laudan
I’ve been humming this to “Goodbye Picadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, the chorus of “It’s a long way to Tipperary,” a World War I marching song that my grandmother used to…| Rachel Laudan
I’ve been humming this to “Goodbye Picadilly, Farewell Leicester Square, the chorus of “It’s a long way to Tipperary,” a World War I marching song that my grandmother used to…| Rachel Laudan
Twelve hours was all it took for my cat, Mittens, to discover how much she loved being rolled from room to room on my rollator, her new favorite perch. Apart…| Rachel Laudan
Here I am with my annual reminder about how unusual American Thanksgiving is as a national meal. As nations were created from the eighteenth century on, all kinds of readily… The post The Anti-Aristocratic Thanksgiving Meal appeared first on Rachel Laudan.| Rachel Laudan
This is not my usual kind of posting. Many friends , though, were surprised (horrified?) that at 80 years of age I drove nearly 2000 miles from Lexington, Kentucky to…| Rachel Laudan
[A slightly edited version of a piece I originally published on October 31st, 2015] Every year of the fifteen I lived in Mexico I enjoyed seeing graves decorated with flowers,…| Rachel Laudan
Ammini Ramachandran passed away peacefully and surrounded by her family on Friday 16th August. She was 81. Her evocative, yet meticulous accounts of the vegetarian cuisine of her native Kerala,…| Rachel Laudan
Note: I’ve just discovered the link to this post does not work on phones unless you subscribe. So sorry about that. I have no idea how to fix this but…| Rachel Laudan
Don Bruno in his milpa (corn, beans and squash) On the August 20, 2002, Don Bruno stood in my garden in Guanajuato, Mexico and delivered this wonderful prose poem. Rushing…| Rachel Laudan
Last week 18th May 2024, I was lucky enough to attend a meeting of the International Society of Neurogastronomy at the University of Kentucky, here in Lexington. It sounds very…| Rachel Laudan
For a national meal, Thanksgiving is really rather extraordinary. It is not a public event, it is not showy, it is a home-cooked meal of ordinary ingredients shared by the…| Rachel Laudan
In the 1990s, with its booming culture of culinary newsletters, Johan Mathieson's stood out.| Rachel Laudan
