Rachel Laudan is currently an independent scholar residing in Austin, Texas, a second career following a lengthy tenure as a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the University of Hawaii. She has research affiliations with UT’s Institute of Historical Studies and Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. Her book Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (2013) analyzes how entire populations in the richer parts of the world today eat as well as, actually better than the greatest emperors of the past. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, Scientific American, the LA Times, Saveur, and Utne Reader as well as numerous academic journals.
Rachel Laudan
