food sites for July 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Summer: a time when real men sacrifice heroic chunks of animal flesh on the altars of grills or smokers (and others just bake quiche).
Another year has gone by, and with this issue of the updates to The Resource Guide for Food Writers, we have completed fourteen years of continuous publication. Some of you might even remember the earliest incarnations that went out via e-mail (or possibly strapped to the backs of rodents who were trained to scurry through the Intertubes). We had no idea, starting out, that we’d still be doing this – after 165 postings. In recognition of this anniversary, we’ll offer the usual clichés: “slow and steady wins the race,” “all things are possible,” and – most apropós –“ignorance is bliss.”
In other news, due to scrupulous attention to portion sizes, there is 20% less of your correspondent than there was at our last anniversary issue. We suspect that many people will be disappointed to learn that this information merely reflects 20% less avoirdupois, not verbiage.
As we can certain the bard never said, “Ya’ gets whatcha’ pays for – and, sometimes, not even that.”
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.
If you are so inclined, you can follow us on Facebook, and Twitter. If that does not sufficiently addle your pate, links to all of our online scribbles posted at A Quiet Little Table in the Corner. Roll Magazine recently published an expanded article on Black Cows Redux, the roots of root beer floats (with a few summer-appropriate recipes).
We’ll conclude this month’s introductory remarks with a self-referentially-consistent excerpt from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. A.A. Milne
Gary
July, 2014
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---- the new sites ----
(Cliff Kuang’s article, in Wired, features some very interesting ways to look at food data)
(Nancy Stohs reviews Kimberly Wilmot Voss’s The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
(Harold McGee, at Discover Magazine)
(“promoting critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems” daily)
(“never trust the lean and hungry,” warns Emily Toth – and Shakespeare)
(Rebecca Onion‘s article on Slate)
(how urban food systems work, world-wide; site maintained by The Food Lab at the University of Texas, Austin)
(“Your Guide to Mustard Varieties” from Serious Eats)
(Mark Vanhoenacker examines how – and why – Americans hold their eating utensils the way they do, and why they need to change)
---- inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers ----
---- yet more blogs ----
---- that’s all for now ----
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