Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

“A Good Cook:” A Pandemic Reflection On My Mother’s 104th Birthday

By Rachel Laudan October 13, 2020 English Food, Food History, Food Processing, Cooking and Kitchens 14 Comments

I felt mulish today. Six months with one meal away from home. No outing further than 30 miles. Seeing friends and family only in constrained circumstances. Enough, enough. Time for…

Alan Bennett on Wartime British Food

By Rachel Laudan January 11, 2020 English Food, Food History, Modern Food, Taste 4 Comments

I enjoyed playwright Alan Bennett‘s recollections in his 2019 diary in the London Review of Books, courtesy of The Browser. 11 February. A piece in the TLS by Laura Freeman about how…

My Mother Never Had to Go Grocery Shopping

By Rachel Laudan April 24, 2019 Bread, English Food, Food History, Modern Food 18 Comments

My story about how my mother and many others of her generation found cooking to be thankless and unremitting labor is consistently one of my most popular posts. Where my…

Rachel Laudan

A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics

“A Good Cook:” A Pandemic Reflection On My Mother’s 104th Birthday

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