Food Sites for April 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Fiddlehead season
April, the first month of the year to have a feminine name, is about to grace us with her presence. Isn’t it curious that the only gendered months* occur in the Spring? We’re not going to attempt to wrest something meaningful from the fact; it’s just a ponderable something-or-other to aid in procrastinating from actual work.
In celebration of the first day of Spring, we chatted up some cannibalistic aspects of vernal equinox festivities at a meeting of the Culinary Historians of New York, on March 20th. There will be a podcast of the event sometime soon (and we’ll post when it’s available), if you’re the sort of person who reads footnotes, the talk (minus any adlibs) is posted here.
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. Just Served slings more leftovers than most people want to face, especially this time of year -- but, if you that feel you’re up to the challenge, you can follow us on Facebook, or Twitter. In the unlikely event that you find yourself stranded and book-starved, there’s even a kind of index at A Quiet Little Table in the Corner.
While this newsletter is mostly about food, food history, food science, food writing – let’s face it, we’re filling our faces and thinking about the process, before, during, and after the fact – Dr Sanscravat occasionally has another thought. When he does, it’s usually about himself; there’s a new example of such self-indulgent blather, On Evolution, at our blog.
Leitesculinaria has reposted several of our own articles – and there should be another new one appearing there, hard upon year’s end. Twenty-or-so backlisted of our LC pieces are available here, along with several articles by more noteworthy writers on food history and science.
In honor of the most fickle part of the season, this excerpt from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
The weather here is gorgeous. It’s mild and feels like it’s in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts. David Letterman
Gary
April, 2013
*OK, if you want to get technical, we’ll grudgingly admit that July and August are named for a couple of Caesars – but we’re sticking with the idle question we’ve posed.
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----the new sites----
(a glossary of Irish foods, from Bon Appétit)
(“A History of Culinary Revolution;” Jane Kramer’s extended review, in The New Yorker, of Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat)
(one man’s meat; journal entries from the starving time in Paris, 1870-71, published in Lapham’s Quarterly)
(the culinary section of cultural e-zine, Nowness)
(Michael Mudd’s op-ed piece in The New York Times)
(Ginia Bellafante’s article about the health effects of class and government inaction in The New York Times)
(the basics, from Primer, a men’s magazine)
(Nancy Harmon Jenkins’ post about the edible bulbs of wild hyacinths)
(studying Scandinavian foods, at a house boat laboratory in Copenhagen)
(curiously, chick peas – either as hummus or falafel – don’t appear much farther north than the Syria/Turkey border)
(Sam Dean’s article in Bon Appétit; spoiler alert: “moo”)
(Corby Kummer on hippophagy, in The Atlantic)
(Kendra Nordin’s article about producers of artisanal) cheeses, in The Christian Science Monitor)
(Ivan Day makes museum exhibits come alive by including period food; article in The New York Times)
(a “friendly, open-minded” look at carnivory, in The Santa Fe Reporter)
-- yet more blogs --
----that’s all for now----
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