On the Table - the curious home of Gary Allen, Food Writer & Dillettante

Don't let Eliot pull your leg -- April is NOT the cruelest month, at least as long as February and March are allowed on the calendar. We had ONE day of spring-like weather (just enough to fool a couple of croci into showing a tiny bit of greenery), then immediately more snow. It is satisfying to know that Winter's days are numbered, though -- and, since rumors of Spring's impending arrival have been floating about, we've posted a little something about certain Mating Habits, just to arouse (that is the polite word, yes?) you from your late-winter torpor. Don't get your "hopes" up prematurely -- the article is G-rated.

We recently attended IACP's Regional Conference in NYC, and got to meet many folks with whom we've been corresponding, and whose books and sites we've been reading, for years. It was a real treat. While there, however, it became painfully obvious that our inner luddite was no longer working for us. So, we finally entered the twitter world -- we're @sanscravat now.

Regular subscribers to our updates newsletter receive these updates from our blog, Just Served, directly -- but there is much more at the blog that isn’t sent automatically. We understand that many (OK, most) folks have better things to do with their time than wade through countless unwanted e-missives, so we won't add ours to that pile. However... should you feel an inexplicable craving for exactly the sort of self-indulgent claptrap we periodically post, feel free to satisfy that urge at Just Served.

Leitesculinaria is still in the process of reposting -- sometimes with shiny new updates and edits -- some of our older articles. The entire list of our currently-posted LeitesCulinaria articles is available here, along with several other articles on food history & science.

For hard-core addicts of our palaver (it's hard to imagine such beings exist, but ya' never know), Marty Martindale's Food Site of the Day has a slick new design, and has returned to posting A Quiet Little Table in the Corner -- an index of our writings on the web.

Here's a selection soon to be added to On the Table's culinary quote pages. It's the success secret for which you've long been waiting:

"'If you lived on cabbage, you would not be obliged to flatter the powerful.' To which the courtier replied, 'If you flattered the powerful, you would not be obliged to live upon cabbage.'" Diogenes

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Agriculture & Natural Resources
(from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences' Cooperative Extension)

Andrea Lynn
(a selection of her articles… many from Chile Pepper magazine, where she's Senior Editor)

Dairy and the US Congress
(an archive of documents concerned with "...legislative issues relating to dairy such as milk pricing, subsidies, and oleomargarine")

Dana's Market Basket
(cookbook author Dana Jacobi's site)

Food Security in Asia and the Changing Role of Rice
(C. Peter Timmer's paper from The Asia Foundation; in PDF format)

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food
("a USDA-wide effort to create new economic opportunities by better connecting consumers with local producers")

Museum of Culinary History and Alimentation (MOCHA)
(site of the museum in Middlesex, UK)

New Orleans Dining & Restaurant News
(the food section of The Times-Picayune)

Nora Maynard, writer
(foodwriting and photography)

Periodic Table of Meat, The
(one of many such tables of food)

Wild River Review
(the food section of this online magazine)



Poor Man's Feast

RUSSELNOD.com

Tom Volk’s Fungi




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Food Blogging

Food Photography Through a New Lens

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Will Write For Food, Payment Preferable




Artful Gourmet

Cooking in Mexico

Indian Simmer

Jeffrey Morgenthaler

Kitchen Tantra - Tease Your Palate

Poor Girl Gourmet

Rambling Epicure, The




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