Food Sites for March 2019
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Caffeine (C8H10N4O2): Brain Juice, Cupped Lighting, Go Juice, High Octane, Java, Jitter Juice, Joe, Liquid Energy, Morning Jolt, Rocket Fuel
Winter should be the most productive season for writing, but it doesn’t hurt to prime the pump, does it? Balzac, who managed to crank out a few words in his time, is said to have consumed some fifty cups a day. Granted, they were tiny cups... but even so, he must have had a hard time sitting still in his chair. He described the effect of his preferred stimulant:
… sparks shoot all the way up to the brain. From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination’s orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.
Haven’t seen any reviews of Sauces Reconsidered: Aprés Escoffier, yet... but it was cited in a Wikipedia entry. Are any non-academics sufficiently nerdy to read footnotes... anywhere, let alone at Wikipedia? Also, do academics even read Wikipedia? So many trivial questions that distract one from one’s writing... probably need to pour another cup of coffee.
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.
More stimuli from On the Table’s culinary quote collection):
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. Paul Erdos
…counterfeit foods are common in times of scarcity: wartime ersatz coffee for example. Or carob for real chocolate, when there is a scarcity of common sense. Janet Clarkson
Gary
March, 2019
March, 2019
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---- the new sites ----
(online texts from the Noreen Reale Falcone Library of Lemoyne University)
(thoughtful and artful recipes from a bacteriologist; plus some scientific insights)
(Gordon Edgar‘s account at Saveur)
(Jim Chevallier asserts that, while there were many good reasons for drinking beer in the Middle Ages, dread of impure water wasn’t one of them)
(according to At the Table’s Diana Henry, ”While you read a menu, time is suspended“)
(Emily Bell, at Vinepair, explains that cocktail creators weren’t always white hipsters)
(Lauren Cocking reports on the wild and crazy cocoa scene, for Gastro Obscura)
(botanical info on: almonds, apples, apricots, cherries, loquats, peaches, pears, pluots, and quinces)
(Julia Sherman develops a Taste for entomophagy)
(Anika Burgess’s illustrated visit to bizarre dishes at Gastro Obscura)
(Bess Connolly outlines some of the complications of recreating 4,000-year-old dishes for Yale News)
---- inspirational (or otherwise useful or amusing) sites for writers/bloggers ----
---- that’s all for now ----
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