Food Sites for December 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
Eighteenth-century field kitchen re-enactment, Fort Ticonderoga, New York
Since the over-the-top-overeating holiday season is fast approaching, this month’s photo is somewhat more austere than is our usual wont. While we love gastronomic excess as much as (and possibly more than) most folks, we know that the sequel to all that hearty holiday fare is the bitter aftertaste of regret.
[The previous paragraph was intended as a kind of peptic talk, to urge us to fight the good fight against the dark forces of over-indulgence. We do not expect it to have any influence, whatsoever, on our actual behavior.]
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. The blog continues to be neglected while plugging away at a book project... but Just Served is already dishing out some holiday leftovers. In the classic Susan-Stamberg’s-mother’s-cranberry-sauce-mode, we’ve replated our “Thanksgiving (Special Holiday Report).”
You can (if so inclined) follow us on Facebook, and Twitter. You can also find links to all of our online scribbles can be found at A Quiet Little Table in the Corner.
Leitesculinaria has reposted twenty-two of our backlisted (and vaguely historical) LC pieces here.
Here lie three holiday excerpts from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein’ preserved from the Indians, an’ we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans. Finley Peter Dunne
It was dramatic to watch [my grandmother] decapitate [a turkey] with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with “gourmet” status. Russell Baker
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. Erma Bombeck
Gary
December, 2013
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---- the new sites ----
(an exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago)
(video of a panel held at the New School, in New York City)
(a few samples from the collection of Dr. Melvin Schrier – who donated some 9,000 items)
(a site about sustainability, not only of what is eaten, but of the eaters)
(in-your-face humor, with a side of attitude – or maybe just trolling for foodies)
(Italian cooking terms)
(hint: someone was skimming off the top…)
(article on the Smithsonian Institution’s blog, “Food & Think”)
(cardiologist Aseem Malhotra, writing in The British Medical Journal, explains that cutting saturated fats -- like butter and cheese – from our diets discourages neither obesity nor heart attacks)
(a droll step away from the usual foodie gushing)
(descriptions, ingredients and histories of many, many, condiments, new and old)
(more than a glossary, each link leads to a detailed article on the ingredient)
---- inspirational (or otherwise) sites for writers/bloggers ----
---- yet more blogs ----
---- moved or changed URLs ----
---- that’s all for now ----
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