Must-Read: Rachel Laudan: Charmingly Unromantic: Measuring Progress in Food: “Unless we compare foods of the past to the present we have no way of understanding them… …And unless we ask whether certain practices led to progress or regress of (say) nutritional quality, gastronomic refinement, equitable distribution, ease of preparation, we risk antiquarian irrelevance…. I’d urge … Continue reading Must-Read: Rachel Laudan: Charmingly Unromantic: Measuring Progress in Food