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Food Sites for October 2017

Friday, September 15, 2017

The winds of change: The last Howard Johnson restaurant left, in Lake George Village, NY

Autumn is a time for reflection on the passing of things. It’s no accident that many of the world’s religions mark the season with remembrance and re-evaluation. It’s also a time when we start to think about dishes we’ve missed for months—sometimes,for years. Is that a descent into frivolous nostalgia? Perhaps, but we don’t care; bring on the comfort food!

We learned, right after the last issue went out, that Food52 had posted one of our recipes. Since there’s still plenty of fresh corn available, check it out. Also, Roll Magazine has posted two of our articles, Dipping into History, about chips & dips, and another about onion soup.

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 quotes (from On the Table’s culinary quote collection are about looking back, an activity which may— or may not—be conducive to the production of written words.

All the gifts are nothing. Money gets used up. Clothes you rip up. Toys get broken up. But a good meal, that stays in your memory. From there it doesn’t get lost like other gifts. The body it leaves fast, but the memory slow.   Meir Shalev 
Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about mans relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.  Mark Kurlansky 
Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table.  Charles Pierre Monselet 
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Diane Ackerman

October, 2017

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---- the new sites ----

(a suggestion of the kind of dishes Jules Gouffé produced—which, hard to believe, are simpler than those of Carême)

(follow Luke Spencer, at Messy Nessy, in pursuit of a little nosh)

(Jenn Sit, at Serious Eats, on the names—and variations—of over-sized sandwiches across the US, plus a tiny nod in the direction of the UK)

(Megan Gannon, at Mental Floss, describes recent experiments that aim to discover what those sailors’ food was really like)

(an excerpt about the historical effects of antibiotics on part of our food supply from Maryn McKenna’s book; on NPR’s The Salt)

(everything you could want to know about the wheys and means of cheese; from Cheese Science)

(a frothy timeline by John Hawthorne, at beergifts.com)

(chef/proprietor Vivian Howard, in Saveur, explains how a 500-pound mistake led to the rediscovery of her North Carolinian culinary roots)

(guide to the special collections at Duke University)

(Paul Freedman, in Yale Alumni Magazine, on how our current preoccupation with food came to be)

(Jan Whitaker, of Restaurant-ing Through History, uses developments in restaurant trends to address recent ethical concerns over this bit of gastronomic nomenclature)

(Meghan McCarron, at Eater, on kaiseki’s influence on nouvelle cuisine)

(Devra Ferst’s annotated list from Saveur)

(a suggestion of the kind of dishes Jules Gouffé produced—which, hard to believe, are simpler than those of Carême)

(Sarah Whitman-Salkin, for Edible Manhattan, visits the collection of The New York Academy of Medicine)

(Mexican cuisine, served via podcasts, magazine, tutorials, recipes)

(a podcast, with links, from Gastropod)

(the low-down on down-home legumes, from the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center Inc.)

(“edible wild plants that you didn’t know you can eat;“ by Colin Smith at Basis Gear)

(“Wine production in the Middle Ages,” from Elizabeth Chadwick at The History Girls)

(Eileen Reynolds plates some history at Extra Crispy)

(short answer: they skip taxes and middlemen; from Jenny Hughes, at Frenchly)

(Tina Hesman Saey, at Science News, reports on yeasty experiments bubbling away in labs and breweries)

(a guide from Slow Food)


---- inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers ----









---- yet more blogs ----




---- thats all for now ----

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1 Comments:

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