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Food Sites for September 2013

Monday, August 19, 2013

 Savoy Cabbage, The King's Garden, Fort Ticonderoga, New York


Whenever we start work on a new book, the research phase invariably leads us to encounter websites that we would otherwise miss. It’s a wonderfully distracting form of procrastination that – sometimes, just sometimes – leads to something productive. The very fact that you’re reading this suggests that you might be a fellow procrastinator, so (as a form of professional courtesy) we are passing along this longer-than-usual list of sites and blogs.

If anything you find here leads to something actually useful, feel free to credit (blame) us to those who would complain about your sloth-like lack of measurable productivity.

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 delivered automatically. For example, Dr Sanscravat stirred up a hornet’s nest by posting “Mayo on a Burger?”. Apparently there are other people who have strong (and conflicting) feelings about the subject. Who knew?

Readers with nothing better to do can follow us on Facebook, or Twitter. Additional time-wasting links to all of our online scribbles can be found at A Quiet Little Table in the Corner.

Leitesculinaria has reposted twenty-or-so of our backlisted (not “blacklisted,” as one might reasonably expect) LC pieces here, as part of their archive of food history & science articles.

As the gardens and fields begin the season’s final glorious burst of production, here are some excerpts from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Call any vegetable, call it by name, call any vegetable and the vegetable will respond to you. Frank Zappa
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do. P. J. ORourke

Gary
September, 2013


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---- the new sites ----

(according to Organic Gardening magazine: “One person’s weed-filled lawn is another person’s salad bar”)

(Harold McGee “…think[s] of best-by dates as maybe-getting-interesting-by dates”)

(Gil Marks provides the history of this classic cake, along with several historic recipes)

(Zona Spray Starks compares Inuit and classic French cooking techniques and products; a PDF from Gastronomica)

(Harold McGee looks at some surprising properties of sugar and heat)

(Rachel Laudan seeks to distill cooking to its essence; ultimately, no matter how you look at it, it’s energy)

(links to talks given by, or interviews with, a British historian of eighteenth & nineteenth century Food)

(a sweet and tangy post from The Smithsonian Institute)

(Julie Guthman, in Cultural Anthropology, asks the most basic question: “what is food?”)

(downloadable PDF from Carolyn de la Peña and Benjamin Lawrence)

(it’s not just hot air in Peter Andrey Smith’s blog post at The New York Times)

(Rachel Laudan talks about food and culture as process)

(magazine about the “food culture of the south” – southern US, that is)

(Bonnie Tan’s examination of 1929’s The “Mems” Own Cookery Book)

(portfolio and contact info)

(e-zine for “anyone who wants to know more about how food reaches their plate”)

(Maya Pieris traces al fresco dining to the fourteenth century)

(Patrick Cauldwell uses Vikings as a model for this kind of research; downloadable PDF)

(Jan Whitaker revisits some casual eating establishments of the past)

(an archive of food and travel articles, plus recipes, from the former editor of Chile Pepper magazine)

(Yasmin Anwar reports on recent research at UC Berkeley)

(tutorial on producers, types, regions, varietals, and vintages)

(article by James Gregory; downloadable PDF)

(Rachel Donadio’s article, in The New York Times, on the changing look – and flavors – of Rome’s iconic food market)

(it’s not as obvious as it sounds, but here are three common denominators)


-- inspirational (or otherwise) sites for writers/bloggers --




---- yet more blogs ----
















---- moved or changed URLs ----




---- that’s all for now ----

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Copyright (c) 2013 by Gary Allen.


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