Participant Info
- First Name
- Rachel
- Last Name
- Laudan
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- rachel@rachellaudan.com
- Affiliation
- Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin
- Website URL
- www.rachellaudan.com
- Keywords
- Food history, especially Mexico, Hawaii, Britain, processed food, industrial agriculture, appropriation
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’ve spent twenty years working on the history of food following a career as a historian of science and technology. Fascinated by the way cuisines (styles of food and cooking) have spread around the world, I look at food from a long term global perspective. This has led me to conclude that for all modern food’s problems, it’s better than at any time in the past. And the environment? Ask me about that.
- Recent Publications
Author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (U. Cal Press, 2013) and “A Plea for Culinary Modernism: Why We Should Love Fast, New Processed Food.”
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @rachellaudan
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, Latin America, Pacific, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Food History, Material Culture, Rural & Agrarian History
