Food Sites for August 2022
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
A couple of young tomatoes...
...that might even ripen sometime in August. We’re not really vegetable gardeners, so—up to this moment—these tomatoes are pure expectation. But, as Laurie Colwin opined, “a world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.”
For now—we’re holding our breath.
We’ve posted A LOT to our Substack newsletter, lately. “What’s It All About, Anyway?” attempts to solve one of life’s great mysteries (with predictable results). ”In the Beginning...” is the lurid tale of how an innocent illustrator was turned to the dark side (i.e., taking up writing). “More Early-day Stuff...” provides a bit of the back story of how Human Cuisine came to be compiled. “Truth, Justice, and the Angling Way“ combines—unlikely as you might expect—lying, fishing, and seventeenth-century English poetry. It’s a story excerpted from Prophet Amidst Losses. “Watch Out for My Uncle... He’s a Cannibal!“ tries to explain our former preoccupation with anthropophagy (adapted from How to Serve Man: On Cannibalism, Sex, Sacrifice, & the Nature of Eating) “77 Years Ago...” is a creation story (and only tangentially about the formation of radioactive isotopes). It comes with a poem. “You Must Remember This...” refers to an excerpt from Cenotaphs. It’s fantastic (but only in the sense that it’s just a fantasy).
A free Substack subscription will automatically deliver—under cover of darkness—such things to your virtual mailbox. In unrelated news, our poem “Trekking the Osteo Path,” was published in July 12th issue of Stunning Poetry (a digital newsletter by Silent Spark Press).
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.
August is high summer, hence these comments from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the fleeting moment. Elizabeth David
No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer’s soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. Florence Fabricant
Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is the rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not, the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot. Fran Lebowitz
Gary
August 2022
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— the new sites —
Bengal’s Ethnic Sweetmeats—An Unconventional Food: History, Tradition, Culture
(PDF of a paper on the complex range of Bengali dishes—candies/desserts—written by Tanmay Sarkar, Molla Salauddin, et. al)
Chicken and Waffles: The Pennsylvania Story
(William Woys Weaver served it up in the Fall 2020 issue of Pennsylvania Heritage)
“Delectable Foods”: This 13th-Century Cookbook Reveals a World of Delicious Recipes
(report of the discovery—and subsequent translation—of a rare cookbook by Andalusi scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī, with recipes, in London’s Financial Times)
(Annie Ewbank’s reminiscences about the golden age of department store dining, in Gastro Obscura)
(PDF of Melitta Weiss Adamson’s 2004 book)
(the plot thickens in Tim Chin’s Serious Eats story)
How a “Bubble Expert” Decoded the Physics of Making Mezcal
(María Paula Rubiano A., at Gastro Obscura, on learning why—and how—traditional proofing methods work)
How to Make the Perfect Cup of Italian Coffee
(Adam H. Graham’s history of the Moka pot, in the American Express magazine, Departures)
Invention of Modern Baby Formula, The
(Claudia Gelb, at Eater, traces its development to nineteenth century scientists)
MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami, An
(Helen Rosner enhances the flavor of “The Annals of Gastronomy” in The New Yorker)
Origins of Fake Meat Are Rooted in Chinese Cooking, The
(Ruby Lott-Lavigna’s Vice article about traditional Buddhist vegetarian cookery and its modern incarnations)
Paneer and the Origin of Cheese in India
(Aditya Raghavan’ history in The Hindu)
Purple Corn, Coyol Sap & Legume Pods of Guanacaste & Nicoya
(Nicholas Gill’s New Worlder post about the “wild foods and ancestral agriculture in northwestern Costa Rica”)
Tale of Two Buds, A: The Centuries-Old Feud Between American Budweiser and Czech Budweiser
(Brit Dawson’s Mel Magazine article blows the foam off a long-standing dispute)
Unhealthy, Smelly, and Strange: Why Italians Avoided Tomatoes for Centuries
(William Alexander’s answer, at Literary Hub; an excerpt from Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World)
(“unheard food stories” from “the many different cuisines within the U.K.”—and around the world)
(Danilo Alfaro addresses—in The Spruce Eats—the differences between methods that produce lactic acid, ethyl alcohol, and acetic acid)
Why Does Spicy Food Make You Sweat?
(an Inverse article in which “a neuroscientist breaks it down”)
(what, exactly, does “organic,” or “certified organic,” or “certified naturally grown” really mean? John Porter has the answers in Mother Earth News)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
3 Best Angles for Incredible Food Photography, The
Book Review: Notes from a Small Kitchen Island
Busting the Myth: YouTube Was My Nigerian Family Cookbook
Cooking History–How Food Inspired Events Can Enrich Museum Engagement
Cooking Through History with the Hofstra Special Collections
Epicurus on Wine Education and Its Perils
Father’s Recipe That Crossed Three Continents, A
Food and Faulkner: Stability and Nourishment Amidst Chaos in The Sound and the Fury
“Hangry Is a Real Thing”: Psychologists Find Link Between Hunger and Emotions
How Did the Diner Menu Get So Long?
Infinite Ellipses of Ritual and Flavor
Inside the Colorful, Campy, Unapologetically Horny World of Erotic Cookbooks
On the Rigidity of Recipe Writing
On Writing (and Not Writing) About Mutton Biryani
Romance Novels Are Increasingly Getting Hot and Heavy in the Kitchen
Simple Styling Tricks for More Appealing Food Photography
Sniffing Out a Cure for Smell Loss
Suiting the Local Taste Preferences: Stories of Transformation of Foods
Traditional English Food with Strange Names
Unbreakable Rules of the Chicago Dog—and When to Bend Them, The
What Our Fantasies About Futuristic Food Say About Us
Whipped Cream, No Other Delights
Why Do We Remember More by Reading in Print Vs. on a Screen?
Writers Shouldn’t Talk: Stop Encouraging Them
You Can Spot Climate Change in Old Restaurant Menus
— podcasts, etcetera —
4 Tricks to Isolate Your Subject in iPhone Food Photography
Can a Cocktail Trend Be Ironic?
F Word, The: Fatphobia in the Food Industry
Grandma Ida’s Nut Rolls Gravestone
Meet the Shaman Using Ancient Chocolate Rituals to Revive Mayan Traditions
(unfortunately, many ads)
Simple Tips for Magazine-Worthy Drink Photography
This Is Kwame Onwuachi’s America (and We’re Just Living in It)
What Cheese Looks Like Around the World
What Leopold Bloom’s Food Diary Tells Us about Bloomsday
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— that’s all for now —
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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
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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Tabula Rasa, Baby: (Not Written in Stone)
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1 Comments:
You should search the web for food website on google. There are tons of websites that can help you
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