Food Sites for August 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
August is fast upon us -- and that means sweet corn is readily available. It also means we have an endless list of corny puns about corn that could be foisted upon you, but we’ll spare you that (just this one time).
In other news, our big herb reference book, The Herbalist in the Kitchen is now available in Kindle format -- which means it's much more affordable and is easily searchable. That's handy, because a truly functional index would have required a second volume of an already expensive book (and the University of Illinois Press would never have agreed to that). So, if you ever need to find out about hbok or oba, the answers will be literally at your fingertips.
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I know, you thought you might get out of here without corn puns, and you were almost right (this time) – but sweet corn seems to make writers wax nostalgic, so we‘re serving up these amaizing excerpts from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie. Craig Claiborne
Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food -- not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream. Dorothy Allison
In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece. A.J. Liebling
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and then eaten with a fork. Ladies should be particularly careful how they manage so ticklish a dainty, lest the exhibition rub off a little desirable romance. Charles Day
Gary
August, 2014
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---- the new sites ----
(Anita-Clare Field’s post about the classic Scandinavian groaning board)
(Nicholas Blechman takes a graphic look “Behind the scenes at a Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese producer;” in The New York Times)
(“Queen of food writing” -- Dalia Lamdani, in an interview in Haaretz -- “serves an answer”)
(Jan Whitaker remembers the food at the World’s Fair, fifty years later)
(much ado about Citrus hystrix, by Maryn McKenna in National Geographic)
(another historical nosh from Anita-Clare Field)
(an interview with Adrian Miller in The Times-Picayune)
(archaeological evidence about the real paleodiet)
(Laura Kelly recreates ancient Mesopotamian dishes; in Saudi Aramco World)
(Joel K. Bourne, Jr. on the corporate take-over of arable land in Africa; the first of a series of articles on food in National Geographic)
(Eric Hansen, on the “fragrant feasts where the trade winds meet;” in Saudi Aramco World)
(Cynthia Bertelsen on the “craziest-ever hearts of palm salad [that] sums up Florida’s food history”)
(Elisabeth Luard on a culinary tradition that is barely a memory today; at Zester Daily)
(Nacho Caballero explains the science behind the phenomenon)
---- inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers ----
(requires subscription to Publishers Weekly)
---- yet another blog ----
---- that’s all for now ----
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