Food Sites for May 2019
Saturday, April 13, 2019
Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in spawning colors
Hope—as we’ve been led to believe—springs eternal, but the converse is also true: Spring hopes eternal. Every day brings dreams of elusive vernal fare: eager trout, and cooperative morels, and ramps nodding in soft breezes. If only hope was sufficient to serve them up!
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Some springy daydreams from On the Table’s culinary quote collection):
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
Some fishes become extinct, but Herrings go on forever. Herrings spawn at all times and places and nothing will induce them to change their ways. They have no fish control. Herrings congregate in schools, where they learn nothing at all. They move in vast numbers in May and October. Herrings subsist upon Copepods and Copepods subsist upon Diatoms and Diatoms just float around and reproduce. Young Herrings or Sperling or Whitebait are rather cute. They have serrated abdomens. The skull of the Common or Coney Island Herring is triangular, but he would be just the same anyway. (The nervous system of the Herring is fairly simple. When the Herring runs into something the stimulus is flashed to the forebrain, with or without results.) Will Cuppy
What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. Bill Buford
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May, 2019
May, 2019
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(Reina Gattuso shows us, at GastroObscura, that ethnic cleansing is sometimes served in the cafeteria)
(over twenty articles on Chinese food from the University of Oregon)
(Marissa Nicosia, gelling in the Folger Library’s Shakespeare & Beyond)
(Elaine Castillo, at Taste, on one foreign influence on the food of The Philippines)
(Allison Aubrey, for NPR’s The Salt, on why some people are not eating their vegetables)
(Jennifer McGavin, at the Spruce Eats)
(Bethany Econopouly and Dr. Stephen Jones wrestle with legal and conceptual definitions for The Bread Lab)
(Rohini Chaki, at GastroObscura, on the prototypical example of cultural appropriation of the culinary variety)
(Irene Yoo, at Food52, on the role of Japanese occupation on a basic staple of the Korean diet)
(text of John Kirkland’s 1911 book; in The University of Leeds Library)
(Mike Pomerantz writes, in Food & Wine, on work done by Gordon Shepherd, author of Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine)
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