Food Sites for May 2021
Friday, April 16, 2021
The month of January is appropriately named for Janus, the two-faced Roman god of doors—looking backwards and forwards at the same time.
May, however, has hidden in its very name something equally appropriate. During the long preceding winter, in which desires* were tightly restrained, indoors, as closed-up as storm windows, we never felt permitted to even ask, “May I?”. Then, before we know it, April’s rains depart, the sun comes out, we throw open the long-closed windows, stick our heads out, and shout for all the world to hear, “I MAY!”.
* Feel free to insert desire or desires of your choice.
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 older 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.
These Springy items might not be precisely culinary, but they celebrate a kind of appetite that might fit in On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
Enchant, stay beautiful and graceful, but do this, eat well. Bring the same consideration to the preparation of your food as you devote to your appearance. Let your dinner be a poem, like your dress. Charles Pierre Monselet
Spring is nature’s way of saying let’s party. Robin Williams
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain
Gary
May, 2021
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— the new sites —
African Cuisines: Recipes for Nation-Building?
(Igor Cusack’s 2000 article in Journal of African Cultural Studies)
(Rekaya Gibson reviews fifty cookbooks that reflect the African diaspora)
Field Guide to North America’s Wild Crops, A
(Reina Gattuso’s Gastro Obscura article on foraging)
Food Historian Dishes on Her Love Affair with Italy, A
(Irene S. Levine interviews Francine Segan for Forbes)
History of the Food Pyramid, A
(according to Hannah McLeod, writing in the Smoky Mountain News, the familiar image evolved from earlier attempts to deal with food shortages in WW II—and only later focused on nutrition)
How to Taste Wine and Assess Wine
(seven step approach provided by wine club Firstleaf)
Inside the World’s Largest Jewish Cookbook Collection
(Anne Ewbank’s Gastro Obscura article about some of the 2,500+ books in the New York Public Library’s Dorot Jewish Division)
More than Málà: A Deeper Introduction to Sichuan Cuisine
(Joe Distefano serves Fuchsia Dunlop’s take on that not-always fiery cuisine for Serious Eats)
So What Is a British Biscuit Really?
(Dan Nosowitz sorts out the differences and similarities between British biscuits and American cookies—and a host of other tiny flat breads—for Gastro Observer)
(six Eater articles on how global warming is likely to change the way we eat)
Your Diet Is Cooking the Planet
(Annie Lowrey, in The Atlantic, on the effect agriculture has on global warming)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
Breakup Letter to My Writing Career, A
Do You Have Nafas, the Elusive Gift That Makes Food Taste Better?
How to Convert Measurements in Baking Recipes—and Why You Might Want To
Power of Self-Publishing in Food Media, The
Tejal Rao on Food Writing, Aimless Roaming, and the Joy of Deadlines
Unsung Influence of a Pioneering Food Journalist, The
What Every Writer Needs to Know About Email Newsletters (They’re Not Going Away)
Why the Owner of Loaves & Fishes Started Her Own Publishing Company
Why We Can’t Talk About Race in Food
Why Writers Need To Be Readers
— podcasts, etcetera —
Warwick Food GRP Webinar on “Food and Drink Cultures Through the Ages”
— that’s all for now —
Except, of course, for the usual legalistic mumbo-jumbo and commercial flim-flam:
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Sauces Reconsidered: Après Escoffier
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...for the moment, anyway.
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