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Food Sites for April 2018

Friday, March 16, 2018


As this is being written, maple sugaring season is winding down, and we’re already thinking about morels... far too soon, but such is the nature of Winter’s effects on our mental processes.

However, Winter is writing season (like every other season in our house), so while waiting for edits to our new book—Après Escoffier: Sauces Reconsidered—to arrive, we keep scribbling away on our novel-in-progress. Meantime, Roll Magazine has seen fit to publish another of our old pieces: “A Wine Epiphany on the Cheap.” Also, at Just Served, there’s a little bit of non-food writing this month. A Chimp Off the Old Block recounts some of the darker sides of good dental care.

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) reveal our longing for a change of seasons:

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Grow green with the spring, yellow and ripe with autumn. Henry David Thoreau 
In the vegetable world, there is nothing so innocent, so confiding in its expression, as the small green face of the freshly-shelled spring pea. William Wallace Irwin
Palpating, crackling, splitting on the grill, Boudins whistle louder than blackbirds in April. Paul Harel
Gary
April, 2018

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---- the new sites ----

(“...recipes that are related to Jewish History during the Biblical, Greek and Roman periods”)

(Xanthe Clay slathers it on, at the UK’s National Geographic Food)

(Brian Yarvin spills the beans at The Rambling Epicure)

(Farah Yameen, in The Hindu Business Line, on some of the roots of Indian cuisine)

(the Manhattan Users Guide has posted a few recipes that were New Yorker’s favorites, back in 1939)

(Kim Severson, in The New York Times, on a recently discovered form of rice, in Trinidad, a gift from Thomas Jefferson)

(“flour components,” by Bethany Moncel, at The Spruce)

(Gastro Obscura’s Samantha Snively on how natural history informed the culinary amusements created by Hannah Woolley, Margaret Cavendish, and others)

(Julie Creswell, in The New York Times, on the legal battles over a seemingly simple word)

(“Greek food and Beyond,” from cookbook author Peter Minaki)

(Gabe Ulla, in Saveur, serves up Cortney Burns’s recommendations for new fermenters)

(just desserts, state by state, by Nancie McDermott, at Southern Living)

(a tasting menu of concepts covered in her book, Why You Eat What You Eat)

(Jason Kottke almost makes one stop ordering lobsters)


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



---- yet another blog ----






---- and, not specifically about food, but... ----



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

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