Rachel Laudan

Linguists have developed ways to reconstruct dead languages like Proto Indo-European, the language from which many of the languages of western Eurasia, including Celtic, Latin, Sanskrit etc are descended.  Not…

Following on my earlier post on Chinese tourists and food in Europe, this analysis of the White House State Dinner for President Hu by the very expert Fuchsia Dunlop is…

Continuing with my list of ten things that culinary historians might learn from historians of language, we come to number 8, are there such things as creole cuisines.[i] I’m not…