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Food Sites for July 2018

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Summer.

This issue marks the beginning of this newsletter’s eighteenth year. We suppose that means it’s now a grown up... well, more grown up than we are.

Roll Magazine recently posted our little article on Shad.

Last month we submitted the edited text for Après Escoffier: Sauces Reconsidered, (which has now had its title flopped: Sauces Reconsidered: Après Escoffier) and it’s finally in production. We also completed the first draft of a mostly non-food novel (Future Tense: The Remembrance of Things Not Yet Past). It sounds like a lot, but both books had been in the works for a LONG time. Since we can’t bear the non-writing life, we’ve reopened some unfinished books and begun adding to, reworking, and editing them.

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.

Some timely quotes (from On the Table’s culinary quote collection):

We ask very simple questions: What makes you happy? What do you eat? What do you like to cook? And everywhere in the world we go and ask these very simple questions... we tend to get some really astonishing answers. Anthony Bourdain
You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together. Anthony Bourdain
I dont have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive. Anthony Bourdain
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasnt actually doing any writing. Anthony Bourdain
Gary
July, 2018

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---- the new sites ----

(Celine Bossart delivers a droll lesson in Vinepair)

(compiled by students of Western Civilization, at Chicago’s Northwestern University)

(Amy Bentley pours on the ubiquitous condiment, for The Smithsonian)

(Pat Tanumihardja, at Saveur, on the essential ingredients of Indonesian cuisine))

(Leslie Pariseau, at Saveur, on the defining ingredients of South Indian cooking)

(a timeline, from Vinepair)

(Shankar Vedantam’s Hidden Brain podcast at NPR... with many insights from Paul Rozin)

(Martin Hogue sits us down at Places Journal)

(Natasha Frost slings it across Gastro Obscura’s counter)

(Anne Ewbank, at Gastro Obscura, on some very rare books)

(Emma Orlow, at Saveur, says “making art out of food is inherently a political act”—and wonders about its implications)

(Dan Nosowitz, on Italian food and notions of what is tradional; at Gastro Obcsura)

(Gordon Edgar, dishes out “the cheapest protein possible” for Zócalo)

(Edible Arts’ Dwight Furrow takes issue with the Rozins’ “flavor principle”)


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












---- yet more blogs ----






---- changed URL ----



---- 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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