Food Sites for August 2019
Friday, July 12, 2019
Carolina Reapers (Capsicum chinense... a cruel hybrid of Ghost Peppers and Habaneros)
It’s August, so it’s hot.
Damned hot.
And likely to get hotter.
We can hide from the heat—with A/C, frozen desserts, or a trayful of icy libations—or we can choose to embrace it. Biting into a Carolina Reaper might be taking things a bit too far, though.
Long ago, one of our more imprudent forms of gluttony took wing, and Modern Salt has published an account of it. “And it Burns, Burns, Burns, the Ring of Fire...” is hot stuff (or, at least, it’s about hot stuff).
Roll Magazine has published “Zhōng Guó,” a more civilized account of more recent over-indulgence. It involves some of the best dim sum available within 100 miles (and a shopping trip to our favorite Asian Supermarket).
While almost everything we’ve published (so far) has been about food, we’ve accumulated several unpublished books that are not. Finding an agent for the odd mixture of short stories, essays, novels, and poems that litter our hard drive is daunting. We’ve started self-publishing the backlog as Kindle books. Our first one is How to Write a Great Book. As you might guess, it’s not really a how-to book. What it is a tongue-in-cheekiness look at how the great writers actually wrote theirs.
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 hotness, this time from On the Table’s culinary quote collection):
He chopped up peppers, mixed them with vinegar and Avery Island salt, put the mixture in wooden barrels to age and funneled the resulting sauce into secondhand cologne bottles. James Conaway (on the invention of Tabasco)
They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered. They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts. William E. Geist
It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat. Daniel Pinkwater
Gary
August, 2019
August, 2019
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— the new sites —
(An illustrated sample from Henry Phillips, at Gear Patrol)
(Emma Betuel, at Inverse, on neolithic brewing methods in China)
(Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft’s Hedgehog Review article on the future—and consequences—of cultured meat)
(Jodi Helmer, at NPR’s The Salt, on developing a coffee substitute entirely from chemicals)
(Jaya Saxena tells the offal truth about a regional specialty, at Taste)
(Megan Frye, at Culinary Backstreets, on that which makes Mexican dishes Mexican)
(archaeologist Kris Hirst looks at the evidence for the use of milk, going back 8,000 years, for Thought & Co.)
(Alicia Kennedy’s review of Joshua Specht’s Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America, in The Baffler)
(GastroObserver’s Dan Nosowitz says no one knows… but he does know who named it; Who nu?)
(barbecue author Jim Auchmutey clears the air in The Washington Post)
(Ed Behr, in his magazine, the Art of Eating, on the reality of—or lack thereof—uncured meat, and the joys of the real thing)
(Madeline Leung Coleman writes, for topic magazine, about “energy bars,” the non-food that people eat when they don’t want to eat)
(Chris Crowley’s Grubstreet account of Serious Eats’ rise to prominence)
(Susie Neilson, at NPR’s The Salt, on an ancient mutation that made sweet almonds possible)
(Henry Notaker, at Literary Hub, on how they did it with cookbooks)
(archive of articles about chocolate; recipes, chemistry, cultivation, techniques, etc.)
(Jonathan Nossiter, at Literary Hub, says not all of them “are natural wines of a spurious radicality”)
(a BBC slideshow, by Bernadette Young and William Park, about the collaboration of Matthew Walter and Alison Freedman)
(Amanda Herbert, at The Recipe Project, on a seventeenth-century precursor of the Instant Pot)
(Slate’s Sara Goldsmith history of the ubiquitous utensil)
(Appalachian Magazine takes some of the mystery out of mystery meat)
(Pamela Vachon, at Chowhound, on the miracle of preserved meats)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful or amusing) sites for writers/bloggers —
— that’s all for now —
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