Food Sites for April 2022
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Chef Julius, inventor of Caesar Salad.
As first recorded by Apicius, the earliest written record of the eponymous romaine salad made generous use of egg, hard cheese from the provinces, lemon, good olive oil, and garum—beaten like a galley slave—then lavished upon lactucae. The leaves untimely ripped, of course (as was the photo, from the internet).
It is almost April First, and no better time than now to disseminate some food fakelore.
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.
More foolishness from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. Robert Benchley
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or of pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully; for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson
Gary
April, 2022
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— the new sites —
(descriptions with photos, plus a short introduction to plum history)
Betty Crocker’s Cosmopolitan Kitchens
(Annie Ewbank’s Gastro Obscura interview with Susan Marks—author of Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food)
(subscription-based searchable access to vast number of recipes, cookbooks, food reference books, author bios, and feature articles)
Food History and Gastronomic Traditions of Beans in Italy
(Giandomenico Corrado’s article in the Journal of Ethnic Foods)
(Kevin O’Briant’s 2017 article in Beyond Beer Magazine)
J. Kenji López-Alt Says You’re Cooking Just Fine
(Helen Rosner’s New Yorker interview)
Man Who Discovered Umami, The
(Veronique Greenwood’s article about Kikunae Ikeda, and the perception of taste, in BBC Future)
Medieval Influencer Who Convinced the World to Drink Tea, The—Not Eat It
(Miranda Brown’s Gastro Obscura article about Lu Yu—”the world’s greatest tea influencer”)
Necco Wafers: The Return of an American Candy Classic
(Aimee Tucker’s New England Today article about a candy that was in the pockets of many Civil War soldiers)
Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer
(Yasmin Amin’s paper on the use of two alliums in Islamic cookery; included in Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond)
Recipe From a Talented Chef Enslaved by a Founding Father, A
(Natasha Frost’s Gastro Observer article about James Hemings, the cook in Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello kitchen)
(Susan Verberg’s 2018 paper on the historical differences between beers made with hops and other herbs)
What Is the Arabesque Kitchen?
(N.A. Mansour’s Eater review of The Arabesque Table, discusses multiple varieties of Arabic cuisine)
What Makes Oaxacan Food Oaxacan?
(Bricia Lopez’s Eater piece on something that’s too complex to be covered by one word)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
8 Tips to Become a Successful Content Writer
Anton Ego and the Critical Sense
“Cultivated Meat is no Silver Bullet” by Carlo Petrini
Curious Case of Colonial India’s Breakfast Curries, The
Food Writer Dishes on Black Culinary Traditions, A (and Top Spots to Experience Them)
History of the Last Time I Ate at a Chinese Buffet, A
How I Got My Job: Creating Weeknight Recipe Faves for Top Publications and Writing a Cookbook
I’m Common as Muck and Spent £150 in a Michelin Star Restaurant to See If It Was Worth It
John Locke’s Personal Pancake Recipe: “This Is the Right Way” to Make the Classic Breakfast Treat
Meet the Indispensable Bagel Rollers of NYC
National Cuisine Is a Useful Illusion
Reader Comments for The New York Times’ “Homestyle Spaghetti Carbonara” Recipe
Remembering Two Fat Ladies, the Perfect Fat-Positive Cooking Show
“The Automat” Is a Guide to the Wonders of Mid-Twentieth-Century Urbanism
To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World’s Worst Sandwich
— podcasts, etcetera —
Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating
New Secret Chicken Recipe, The?
People Can’t Believe That THIS Is How Cashews Grow
See the True Cost of Your Cheap Chicken
Well-Seasoned Librarian, The: A Conversation About Food, Food Writing and More
When Sitting Bull Came to Dinner
(you’ll need to use this passcode: .p$1t74C [Note that the passcode starts with a period])
— changed URL —
What We Write About When We Write About Food
— that’s all for now —
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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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Prophet Amidst Losses
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