Food Sites for November 2017
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Something from Rabelais, the Patron Saint of Holiday Excess.
The holiday season—or, as we like to call it, La Grande Bouffe—is about to descend upon us, appropriately enough, in the form of an all-devouring beast. There’s little we can do to stop this devastating assault on our carefully-composed diets, the resulting avoirdupois, or our gastrointestinal well-being... but, at least, none of the text of this newsletter has any caloric value.
Unless, of course, one is seduced by some of these website’s charms, in which case, all bets are off.
Oh well... there’s always January, the month of remorse.
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This month’s quotes (from On the Table’s culinary quote collection reflect some ambivalence about the centerpiece of a certain holiday.
TURKEY: This bird has various meanings depending on the action in your dream. If you saw one strutting and/or heard it gobbling, it portends a period of confusion due to instability of your friends or associates. However, if you ate it, you are likely to make a serious error in judgment. Barbara Condrony
TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating. Ambrose Bierce
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old. Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Turkey takes so much time to chew. The only thing I ever give thanks for at Thanksgiving is that I’ve swallowed it. Sam Greene
Gary
November, 2017
November, 2017
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(the Cotton MS Vitellius C III, in the collection of the British Library; text is in Old—which is to say, Anglo-Saxon—English, but includes a link to a modern English translation, available for purchase)
(Heather Arndt Anderson waxes nostalgic, at Taste, about a vegetable that has lost most of its former glamour)
(“Chinese recipes and eating culture”...with an emphasis on the foods of Sichuan and Shanxi)
(Pritha Sen, at LiveMint, on the source of hotness in Indian dishes, before the arrival of New World chiles)
(John Leavitt’s attempt to resolve—graphically—the endless arguments about what is, or is not, a sandwich)
(Via Dutton, at Literary Hub, savors a dessert of foie gras, sprinkled with ideas about food and guilt)
(downloadable resource compiled under the supervision of Dr. Allen J. Grieco)
(Fabio Parasecoli reviews Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz’s Cooking Technology: Transformation in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America, for Huffpost)
(archive of stories and podcasts from the Southern Foodways Alliance)
(Irakli Loladze has found a mathematical connection between rising atmospheric carbon dioxide and imbalance of micro-nutrients and carbohydrates in the world’s food supply)
(a map, from VinePair, that only hints at the complexity of the subject)
(Mackensie Griffin, at Eater, on how the eating habits of sleuths tell us who they are)
(the BBC’s Theodora Sutcliffe on a curious connection between history and charcuterie)
(Nora Ephron gushes, in The New Yorker, over the mechanical bliss of Krispy Kreme)
(a YouTube video from Japanology)
(high tech methods have made The Netherlands the capital of modern farming; article by Frank Viviano in National Geographic)
(Brian Handwerk, at the Smithsonian, on research into what makes some of us turn up our noses)
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