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Food Sites for October 2018

Thursday, September 13, 2018

You don’t know jack...

October is one of the rare months when we try to do things with common foodstuffs that don’t involve cooking or eating. Maybe it’s because, at harvest time, there’s just too much of everything to even consider eating it all?

The first—very rough—draft of our novel (Future Tense: The Remembrance of Things Not Yet Past) has been completed and is out for comments from a few selected victims. When comments come in, we’ll consider what to do next. Meanwhile, we’ve started work on yet another (and very different sort of) novel. Its working title is Cenotaphs. Doctor Sam once said—probably to James Boswell, who scribbled about everything Johnson said: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” 

We are neither amused nor comforted by that.

An update from the non-fiction section: we’ve received the galleys for our latest book, Sauces Reconsidered: Àpres Escoffier, and have compiled its index, and made final corrections. Our work is finally complete (at least until post-publication marketing kicks in). It’s now slated for release in January!

You can, if you wish, follow us on Facebook (where, among other things, we post a LOT of photographs), and Twitter. Still more of our online scribbles can be found at A Quiet Little Table in the Corner.

There are better things to do with pumpkins than smashing them in the street or frightening children (not that frightening them is an altogether bad thing). Here are few comments from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie? John Greenleaf Whittier
My favorite word is ‘pumpkin.’ You can’t take it seriously. But you can’t ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that’s it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am. Harrison Salisbury
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. Jim Davis (as Garfield)

Gary
October, 2018

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---- the new sites ----

(Niraj Chokshi describes, for The New York Times, some really really well-aged cheese)

(Mark Hay, at Gastro Obscura, on Zahir Al-Din Muhammad—Aka, Babur—sixteenth-century proto-foodie)

(Jan Whitaker proves that art of writing menu copy is not what it used to be, at her blog, Restauranting through History)

(Natalie Anderson, at medievalists.net, looks at Chris Woolgar’s study of how medieval people regarded their meals: “Contemporary science teaches that objects that shine reflect light, but medieval people saw these objects as the source of light, and the divine qualities of light made them virtuous in their own right.”)

(Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, The Local Palate; not Mexican tamales, but Delta tamales, like the ones Robert Johnson sang about: “if you got ‘em for sale…”)

(Sophie Egan peels away the mysteries for The New York Times)

(Cat Wolinski, at VinePair, on the role of brewsters in medieval England)

(Anne Ewbank, at Gastro Obscura, on an early Japanese cookbook that incorporated ingredients and methods from the Iberian Peninsula)

(Soleil Ho, at Taste, on something more significant than fusion food)

(Dwight Furrow, in debunking mode, at Edible Arts)

(Dwight Furrow, continues in debunking mode, at Edible Arts)

(Howard Miller, Aat An Eccentric Culinary History, on the history, chemistry, and processing of corn into nutritious masa and hominy)

(site accompanying an exhibition at Cornell University in 2008-2009)

(James Gaines, at Inside Science, on how Purdue’s Saliva, Perception, Ingestion, and Tongues Laboratory discovered that “taste influences diet, but diet might also influence taste“)

(Elizabeth Pennisi, in Science, on recent work by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium)


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












---- yet more blogs ----




---- that’s all for now ----

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