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Food Sites for February 2017

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Sucrose

On this cold and gray day, it’s pleasant to reflect on the fact that Spring—the sweet of the year—will eventually come (no matter what the prognosticator of Punxatawney, PA has to say about it). So we’ve chaptalized this month’s must—to make it go down easier—or dull the senses with more alcohol—whichever is needed.

Speaking of which, last month Modern Salt published “A Wine Epiphany on the Cheap,” proving—for some us at least—that it is possible to overthink a glass of wine.

You can, if you wish, follow us on Facebook, and Twitter. Still more of our online scribbles can be found at A Quiet Little Table in the Corner.

This month’s quote (from On the Table’s culinary quote collection) attempts to add a little sweetness to this bitter season.

Honey comes out of the air … At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. … Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers. Pliny 
A pessimist is someone who looks at the land of milk and honey and sees only calories and cholesterol. Anonymous 
“Bee vomit,” my brother said once, “thats all honey is,” so that I could not put my tongue to its jellied flame without tasting regurgitated blossoms. Rita Dove 
Gary
February, 2017

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---- the new sites ----

(Modern Salt’s Jill Norman remembers the great cookbook author)

(Lucky Peach’s Scarlett Lindeman reveals that there’s a lot more to Mexican sauces than mole poblano and guacamole)

(NPR’s Nicole Jankowski on the life and career of Carême)

(quick NPR interview with zooarchaeologist Naomi Sykes)

(Gary Taubes makes the case in The Guardian)

(philosopher Dwight Furrow, in Edible Arts, takes on the issue of context in the appreciation of wine)

(Emrys Westacott, at 3Quarks Daily, says it’s a mixed bag; “just because something seems right or feels right does not mean that objectively speaking it is right”)

(James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, “...it’s strange to be militantly inflexible about rules that are barely more than arbitrary”)

(“Food tells us a lot about what it means to be human, which is to be neither a be[a]st merely feeding nor some kind of pure mind or soul that does not need to eat.” In Symposion Journal)

(Max Falkowitz, in Saveur, on an “ingredient that rules the world”)

(John Raven’s articles about Texas’ most famous foods—from chicken-fried steak to sonofabitch stew)

(Jill Norman, at Modern Salt, on Piper nigrum)

(Saveur’s Alex Testere on the miracle of Scottish heather honey)

(food for thought from Claudia McNeilly, in Canada’s National Post)


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