Food Sites for August 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Summer is burgers-on-the-grill season... but, apparently, also faux-burgers-in-cupcake-form season.
This once-bitten example was not shy about being a production of Mary Ann Williams, for the Brooktondale Market, near Ithaca, NY.
It’s summer, so we spend a lot of time on the road. This gives us the opportunity to try many regional beers and local variations on the hamburger theme. So far, the most interesting one was layered with bacon, sliced jalapeños, and pimento cheese. Some day we’ll post photos of the beer cans and bottles we’ve sampled, as we seem to be living in the golden age of “artisanal” beers and—even more—artisanal labels.
We’ve been distracted from writing about food lately (a non-foodish novel has been taking up our time, instead). So, no new links of our own; just the usual monthly potluck, below.
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This month’s quotes (from On the Table’s culinary quote collection are about some of the surrogates we are invited to ingest. They are amusing in much the same the way that gallows humor amuses us.
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. Alfred E. Newman
We were taken to a fast-food cafe where our order was fed into a computer. Our hamburger, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of artificially flavored cardboard and served to us by recycled juvenile delinquents. Jean Michel Chapereau
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. Bennett A. Cerf
Gary
August, 2017
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---- the new sites ----
(BBC interview with Barbara Ketcham-Wheaton)
(Wyatt Williams revisits John McPhee’s Oranges, in Oxford American)
(Amanda Banacki Perry, in the blog of the American Historical Association, takes a fresh look at culinary assimilation and asks, “...is an authentic cuisine even possible?”)
(thirteen old cookbooks, from Portugal and Brazil, in Portuguese)
(Julia Turshen, in The New York Times, reviews Susan Bright’s Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography)
(episode three in The Pickled Spruit’s “Food in Books” series, by Mona Lazar)
(Ben Panko, in The Smithsonian, on the history of baking powder, with a nod to Linda Civitello’s book, Baking Powder Wars)
(Caitlin Dewey, in The Washington Post, on efforts “...to differentiate ‘true’ craft beers...” from mass-produced pretenders; needless to say, the big companies are fighting back)
(Joachim Kalka‘s article, in The Paris Review, on literary accounts of grand edible structures in the form of cakes)
(Ed Yong writes about a study that suggests that much of what we think we know about nutrition might not be accurate for everyone; an article in The Atlantic)
(Bee Wilson, in The Observer, on how the internet has changed the way recipes travel and evolve—for better or worse)
(Dan Rosenhec, in The Economist, wonders if all the hullabaloo about wine tasting has any basis in reality)
(a podcast from the BBC on “...how cookery books have been used to demonstrate power, strengthen colonial and soviet ideology, and divide society by class and race”)
(Laura Carlson, at Atlas Obscura, on the feminist origin—in St. Louis, of all places—of these preprandial revelries)
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---- yet more blogs ----
---- that’s all for now ----
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