Food Sites for October 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Kosmic ornamental kale
We’re so looking forward to cooler weather, when we can use the oven for slow cooking again. We’re not completely tired of outdoor grilling, yet—but there’s a stash of duck confit, pork belly, and garlic sausage in the freezer, just waiting to become cassoulet. It’s not something we would have considered, let alone eaten, during the summer doldrums.
Penwipe Publishing remains on staycation, but it hasn’t kept us from pecking away at the keyboard. So far. Our blog posted another short story this month; “Stomach Problems” is part of a book-length collection of fables, still in its infancy. We may have drifted away from writing about food history, but our appetites remain somewhere on the greediness spectrum between infantile and adolescent.
Look below for a few more podcasts to distract you from the media’s never-ending chatter about the pandemic.
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’s even an Amazon author’s page, mostly about our food writing.
Looking forward to fall, a few goodies from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each. Grow green with the spring, yellow and ripe with autumn. Henry David Thoreau
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
As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It’s time to start making soup again. Leslie Newman
Gary
October, 2020
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— the new sites —
Aided by Modern Ingenuity, a Taste of Ancient Judean Dates
(Isabel Kershner’s article, in The New York Times, about the successful fruiting of Israeli date palms from 2,000-year-old seeds)
(Rachel Lauden’s Scientific American article traces it back to seventeenth-century notions about nutrition)
Divided States of Chili: A Guide to America’s Most Contentious Stew
(Sho Spaeth goes where Anglos fear to tread for Serious Eats)
Downfall of Rosewater, Once America’s Favorite Flavor, The
(Jaya Saxena’s GastroObscura piece on a nearly forgotten kitchen staple)
(Arabic coffee ritual and etiquette, from Shaistha Khan, in AramcoWorld)
History of Howard Johnson’s Restaurant, The
(Christopher Setterlund’s account of the first franchised restaurant chain)
Jiggly Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Jell-O in the South, The
(Kinsey Gidick writes about a “gelatinous trend” in a Nashville restaurant, for southern magazine Garden & Gun)
New Worlds and New Tastes: Early Modern Europe
(Brian Cowan’s paper on the forces that changed European gastronomy, beginning in the sixteenth century; a PDF)
Recreate the Ancient Egyptian Recipes Painted on Tomb Walls
(Jess Eng translates a couple of dishes from hieroglyphs for GastroObscura)
(David Buck waxes nostalgic about Kool-Aid for Tedium)
What Bread Tasted Like 4,000 Years Ago
(Keridwen Cornelius and Sapiens, in The Atlantic, on efforts to recreate the sourdough of Ancient Egypt)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
Brewing Mesopotamian Beer Brings a Sip of This Vibrant Ancient Drinking Culture Back to Life
From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies
Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors
How 12 Female Cookbook Authors Changed the Way We Eat
How Boxed Mac and Cheese Became a Pantry Staple
James Beard Was Anti-Elitist. He Would Hate the Awards that Bear His Name.
One Tasmanian's 54-Year Obsession to Catalogue All of the World's Edible Plants to End Malnutrition
Philosophy has Been Wrong About Wine for 2500 Years
Pirate Who Penned the First English-Language Guacamole Recipe, The
Redemption of the Spice Blend, The
Strange Grief of Losing My Sense of Taste, The
Why Americans Just Can’t Quit Their Microwaves
— podcasts —
It’s A Gourmet World After All
— another blog —
— that’s all for now —
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