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Food Sites for June 2018

Friday, May 11, 2018

A simple Gin & Tonic, sipped & savored outdoors; 
Confirmation that we’ve survived another Winter. 

When Spring finally arrives, its extravagance is always something of a shock—there’s way too much of everything: color, texture, smells, and a cacophony of birdsong. It’s like one of those medieval feasts—hundreds of elaborate dishes, featuring a complete menagerie of animal flesh, a fluttering aviary of prepared larks, geese, and peacocks—each flavored with a dozen herbs and spices, and sweetened with sugar, honey and/or fruit syrups. Dazed diners rush from dish to dish, never actually savoring a single one.

Something we never expected to see: This month, the library of The Culinary Institute of America, at Hyde Park, has a little exhibit of—of all things—cannibalism. In one of the showcases, lo and behold, a copy of Human Cuisine (that little anthology we compiled with Ken Abala). 

We’re about to submit the edited text for Après Escoffier: Sauces Reconsidered—then we wait for the production process to take over. Eventually, copy-editing, final proofs, and indexing. Folks who only read books—but have never troubled themselves to have written any—are blissfully unaware of how long every stage takes.

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.

June is blessed, so here are two notes about divinity made manifest (from On the Table’s culinary quote collection):

Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did. Dr. William Butler (on strawberries, quoted in Isaac Walton’s The Compleat Angler)  
Although I’ll eat the strawberry when frozen / It’s not the very berry I’d have chosen. / The naughty admen claim with gall divine / That it is better than the genu-ine, / New language they devise to sing its praise, / But only le bon Dieu can coin a fraise. Ogden Nash
Gary
June, 2018

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---- the new sites ----

(several of Laura Kelley’s pages dedicated to the world’s oldest cuisine)

(Kristina Gaddy, for Gastro Obscura, on the work of Kara Mae Harris, at the Maryland Historical Society)

(...in the collection of the National Library of Australia, many with links to online versions)

(ingredients, recipes, food & culture)

(just the thing when confronted by “schyconys” or “egarduse” on a menu)

(Emily Thomas interviews Lucy Long for The Splendid Table)

(article in Eco News on “secretly grafting fruit-bearing branches onto ornamental city trees”)

(one or two for each region)

(Tristan Rutherford, in AramcoWorld, on the home of a fusion cuisine that is nearly 3,000 years old)

(food, drink, literature and art; from picnic maven Walter Levy)

(Cynthia Bertelsen knows there’s more to be extracted from bones than bone broth)

(another posting in Jan Whitaker’s excellent Restaurant-ing through History blog)

(Dwight Furrow, at Edible Arts, on why philosophers tend to ignore taste and smell in their search for eternal truth)

(Michael Waters, for Gastro Obscura, on the Buttolph Collection at The New York Public Library)


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











---- that’s all for now ----

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Occasionally, URLs we provide may link to commercial sites (that is, they’ll cost you money to take full advantage of them). We do not receive any compensation for listing them here, and provide them without any form of recommendation—other than the fact that they looked interesting to us.

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