Food Sites for November 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020
Assorted pumpkins, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Remember George Henry Boughton’s famous painting of pilgrims, walking solemnly to church? It was done in 1867, only four years after Lincoln created Thanksgiving as a national holiday. It will soon be dragged out of hiding, as it is every November. It always makes me think of how grimly drab and gray the season is, and how many months more of such weather we can expect to endure.
Then I remember that much of that time will be spent cooking for—and maybe even eating with—friends. I imagine the warm kitchen, filled with savory aromas, and I start ransacking my cookbook collection.
Penwipe Publishing remains on staycation, but the pandemic is good for something: it provides plenty of time for writing. This month, our blog posted another short story; “A Girl to Do the Cleaning” is more for our still-growing collection of fables. It has only a tenuous connection to our food writing, but still...
Look below for a few more podcasts—and a little humor—to distract you from the media’s never-ending chatter about trying to survive in the plague year.
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.
In honor of November, a few large squashes from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. Jim Davis, Garfield
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
Gary
November, 2020
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— the new sites —
2,000-Year-Old History of Vending Machines, The
(Chason Gordon’s article at Food52, about mechanically-enhanced instant gratification)
(Karen Vaneker’s paper on the traditional taro-based dish of Surinam)
Food for Healing: Convalescent Cookery in the Early Modern Era
(Ken Albala’s 2011 essay about soft bland food meant for invalids, in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
Food on Table, The: History, Culture, Art and Popular Expression in Roman Cooking
(an overview by Rose Gaudiano)
Jewish Food Legacies from Spain
(Annette B. Fromm’s 2105 paper)
Medieval Arabic Cookbooks: Reviving the Taste of History
(Marcia Lynx Qualey’s Al Jazeera account of ancient books in modern English translation, with details of Arabic food, culture, and etiquette)
(YouTube video, from CIMMYT—the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center—explaining the production and use of nixtamalized corn)
(Nicola Twilley’s New Yorker article about the science behind making sugar sweeter—so formulations won’t need as much)
Travel Back in Time with Mcgill University’s Cookbook Collection that Spans 350 Years
(Gail Dever’s blog post about an internet archive of 264 cookbooks that were written between 1615 and 1966)
Ultimate Guide to Ingredient Substitutions and Equivalents, The
(Kristin Stangl provides links to lots of substitution strategies at The Spruce Eats)
(Diana Spechler deals with a contentious subject for the BBC)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
50+ Pitching Guides for NYT, Natgeo, Wired, Wapo, Bustle and More
Adapting and Adopting: The Migrating Recipe
Colorado Couple’s 20-Year Search for Extinct Fruit Finally Pays Off
Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in Geothermal Pools?
Genetic Fix to Put the Taste Back in Tomatoes, A
Republishing Content: How to Update Old Blog Posts for SEO
Tasty Only in Afterthought: 6 Words That Didn’t Always Describe Food
— podcasts, etcetera —
All the Eater Shows You Love, in All the Places You Love to Watch Them
Aunty Sylvie’s Sponge: Foodmaking, Cookbooks and Nostalgia
Homemade Podcast Episode 17: Dorie Greenspan on Baking, Butter, and Elbows-On-the-Table Food
Your Fave Food52 Shows Are Now Streaming on a TV Near You
— a little humor —
Off-Kilter History of British Cuisine, The
— that’s all for now —
Except, of course, for the usual legalistic mumbo-jumbo and commercial flim-flam:
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The Resource Guide for Food Writers
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The Herbalist in the Kitchen
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The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food And Drink Industries
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Human Cuisine
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Herbs: A Global History
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Sausage: A Global History
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Can It! The Perils and Pleasures of Preserving Foods
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Sauces Reconsidered: Après Escoffier
Terms of Vegery
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How to Serve Man:
On Cannibalism, Sex, Sacrifice, & the Nature of Eating
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How to Write a Great Book
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The Digressions of Dr Sanscravat: Gastronomical Ramblings & Other Diversions
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Prophet Amidst Losses
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Cenotaphs
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Future Tense: Remembrance of Things Not Yet Past
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Here endeth the sales pitch(es)...
...for the moment, anyway.
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