Food Sites for January 2022
Friday, December 10, 2021
Two images that define the departing year:
a shot and shots (how many of us got by),
and a mask, hanging near the front door
(for when we needed to get out).
The nineteen-twenties roared with jazzy excitement—but, so far, the twenty-twenties have been one humongous disappointment. Please accept our apologies for grossly understating the gravity of the situation. Who knows? Maybe twenty-twenty-two will bring some better news—or, at least, cease making the news a source of agita-induced dypepsia.
For the new year, let’s raise a nineteen-twenties-style glass—or three—to the possibility of better news. Maybe some old-fashioned optimism‑because what could be more old-fashioned, right?
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.
Keeping the twenties in mind, we’ve shuffled through the liquor cabinet for a few excerpts from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal. Anonymous
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn’t care to drink with—even if he drank. H.L. Mencken
Everyone must believe in something, I believe I’ll have another drink. WC Fields
Gary
January, 2022
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— the new sites —
Brief History of Cheesy Pasta, A
(Massimo Montanari’s account at Literary Hub)
(Elizabeth Kolbert’s article, in The New Yorker, on altering the way plants use photosynthesis to produce more food for us)
(berries, citrus fruits, drupes, pomes, and melons; an illustrated guide from Leafy Place)
(Frank Maixner, et. al., report—in Current Biology—on archaeological evidence obtained from ancient feces)
Hidden, Magnificent History of Chop Suey, The
(Miranda Brown’ tells the sordid story at Gastro Obscura)
Perfect Storm, A: The Chocolate, Coffee, and Climate Crises
(Randall Myers discusses the horror of climate-change extinction of some of our favorite things—and what we can do to prevent it—for Quillette)
(Joshua Levine’s Smithsonian article about Roquefort cheese)
Seeing and Tasting: The Evolution of Dessert in French Gastronomy
(Maryann Tebben’s 2015 essay in Gastronomica)
TASTE (law and the senses series)
(aesthetics, philosophy, and anthropology of food; PDF of the 2018 anthology from the University of Westminster Press)
(varieties from around the world; an illustrated guide from Leafy Place)
(“varieties of onions and how to use them;” an illustrated guide from Leafy Place)
Types of Red Berries That Grow on Trees or Shrubs
(an identification guide from Leafy Place)
What Humanity Should Eat to Stay Healthy and Save the Planet
(Gayathri Vaidyanathan’s Nature article about the cost of global sustainability and adequate nutrition)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
10 Massively Inedible Roadside Attractions
“Designing Human-Food Interactions in Space Is Not a Trivial Task.”
How Marcella Hazan Became a Legend of Italian Cooking
How Things Are Changing for Women in the Kitchen
It’s Time to Retire the ‘Julia Child Of’ Trope
Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’
Mrs. Goodfellow—Raves from Miss Leslie and Others
Who Owns a Recipe? A Plagiarism Claim Has Cookbook Authors Asking.
Wisdom about Wine and Food Pairing
World’s Vast Networks of Underground Fungi to Be Mapped for First Time
— another blog —
— podcasts, etcetera —
— that’s all for now —
Except, of course, for the usual legalistic mumbo-jumbo and commercial flim-flam:
As an Amazon Associate, this newsletter earns from qualifying purchases made through it. These include our own books (listed below), and occasional books mentioned in the entries above. If you order anything via those links, the price you pay is not increased by our commission.
Occasionally, URLs we provide may take you to commercial sites (that is, they’ll cost you money to take full advantage of them), or publications that have paywalls. We do not receive any compensation for listing them here, and provide them without any form of recommendation—other than the fact that they looked interesting to us.
Your privacy is important to us. We will not give, sell or share your e-mail address with anyone, for any purpose. Ever. Nonetheless, we will expose you to the following irredeemably brazen plugs for our own books:
The Resource Guide for Food Writers
(Hardcover)
(Paper)
(Kindle)
(newsletters like this merely update the contents of the book; what doesn’t appear here is already in the book)
The Herbalist in the Kitchen
(Hardcover)
(Kindle)
The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food And Drink Industries
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Human Cuisine
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Herbs: A Global History
(Hardcover)
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Sausage: A Global History
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Can It! The Perils and Pleasures of Preserving Foods
(Hardcover)
(Kindle)
Sauces Reconsidered: Après Escoffier
Terms of Vegery
(Paper)
(Kindle)
How to Serve Man:
On Cannibalism, Sex, Sacrifice, & the Nature of Eating
(Paper)
(Kindle)
How to Write a Great Book
The Digressions of Dr Sanscravat: Gastronomical Ramblings & Other Diversions
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Ephemera: a short collection of short stories
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Prophet Amidst Losses
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Future Tense: Remembrance of Things Not Yet Past
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Backstories: As retold by Gary Allen
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Here endeth the sales pitch(es)...
...for the moment, anyway.
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