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Life & fun · September 30, 2015

EconTalk - Rachel Laudan on the history of food and cuisine

History & economics explored via potatoes, rice, and wheat

EconTalk - Rachel Laudan on the history of food and cuisine launched on September 30, 2015 with 54 votes, #1,284 of 3,463 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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Rachel Laudan, visiting scholar at the University of Texas and author of Cuisine and Empire, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of food. Topics covered include the importance of grain, the spread of various styles of cooking, why French cooking has elite status, and the reach of McDonald’s. The conversation concludes with […]

Rachel Laudan , visiting scholar at the University of Texas and author of Cuisine and Empire, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of food. Topics covered include the importance of grain, the spread of various styles of cooking, why French cooking has elite status, and the reach of McDonald's. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the appeal of local food and other recent food passions. The Incas would disagree about your guest’s assessment of the potato. This is one of those episodes wherein I not only learn some great economic lessons, but also a lot of other really neat fun facts. I truly delight in this type of episode. The most interesting part of the…from econtalk.org

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