Food Sites for December 2022
Saturday, November 12, 2022
March fourteenth might be Pi Day, but the holiday season—stretching from the end of November through the end of December—is all pie.
We’re just entering that eating season—or what director Marco Ferreri might have called La Grande Bouffe. While we might not, intentionally, be attempting suicide through excessive eating, it certainly might appear that way to an unbiased observer. In keeping with that thought, this issue of our newsletter is wurstig—bursting like an over-stuffed sausage.
Dismal November days (and nights) enabled us finish off not just one, but two novellas, alternating between more Substack newsletters:
Just Unbelievable announced the (self-)publication of a little book, Unbelievable: A Modern Novella, in kindle and paperback editions.
Reheated Chili revisits, and expands upon, an old article from Roll Magazine.
Mendacity...and its Rewards tried to look at the nature of truth but couldn’t find very much (it was, after all, election season).
Silliness is Serious Bizness, explored why we do what we do.
Spamalot! Spamalot! Began talking about the kind of Spam that doesn’t come through e-mail but, predictably, wandered off into the wild deserts of Digressia.
Another Book announced the (self-)publication of yet another little book, Noirvella, in kindle and paperback editions (it’s free to paid subscribers to our substack posts)
Gag (or Acid) Reflux announced the (self-)publication of one of our old books—done in collaboration with Jack Murphy. Inedible: Cruel & Unusual Foods That Moms Used to Make—and Inflicted on Young & Innocent Palates is available in paper and Kindle editions
It is a truth universally acknowledged... addressed the elephant in the room. The elephant did not reply.
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.
On the off-chance that you don’t get your fill of pie, this month, here are a few more slices from from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. Jane Austen
A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom’s apple pie. In fact, now that Mom’s apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn’t Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not. William Zinsser
I don’t think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. John Gould
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan
I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don’t require as much cooking. Carrie Snow
Gary
December 2022
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— the new sites —
Asafetida, India’s Odorous Taste of Home
(Madhur Jaffrey’s New Yorker post on Ferula foetida, AKA
“dyvels drekk” and “stercus diaboli”‑among other unsavory, but descriptive, terms)
Barbecue Is What Americans Agree On
(The Food Section’s Hanna Raskin interviews Datassential’s Mike Kostyo)
Brief History of People Eating Brains, A
(as Dennis Less said in Jonathan Dale’s Take-Out article, “Most offal is a lot easier to handle, mentally, but for some reason brains are some next-level shit”)
Coffee, the Great Literary Stimulant
(Ed Simon’s article—part history, part celebration—in The Millions)
Colonial Origins of Mexico’s National Dish, The
(an Atlantic article—by Nicola Twilley, Cynthia Graber, and Gastropod)
(Madhulika Dash, in Deccan Herald, on the new Indian cuisine, and the west’s recognition of it)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tucupí
(Nicholas Gill’s substack page about South American sauces made from cassava)
Excavating the South’s African American Food History
(PDF of Anne Yentsch’s chapter in African American Foodways: Exploration of History and Culture)
Guide to Soy Sauce Varieties, A
(Sho Spaeth’s Serious Eats article)
How the Bloody Mary Garnish Lost Its Mind
(“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing exceeds like excess,” Oscar Wilde)
(Nicholas Gill on the Andean herb, Tagetes minuta)
I Did Not Love Squash as A Child.
(Andrew Zimmern’s paeon to pumpkins—and other members of the Cucurbita genus)
(Gastro Obscura’s Editorial Fellow—Diana Hubbell—spills the beans on old-fashioned methods of fortune telling with food)
(Chelsea Monroe-Cassel’s blog recreates real dishes that we might encounter in places that aren’t real: books, TV shows, and videogames)
Slaves for Peanuts Weaves a Complex Story Crossing Time and Oceans
(Martha Anne Toll’s NPR review of Jori Lewis’ book, Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History)
Taste of Chocolate: Biting Enhances the Taste of Chocolate
(Tania Dey’s paper tests and explains the phenomenon)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
Are the Meat Sweats Fact or Fiction?
Bakery Creates “Pan Solo,” a 6-Foot Replica of Star Wars Hero Made of Bread
Cookbook for Surviving the End of the World, A
Echoes of a World War in Wines from the Early 1940s
Fascinating Connection Between New York City’s Jewish and Chinese Immigrants, The
Good Research Librarian Can Help You Find Information You Didn’t Even Know You Needed, A
Great Food Instagram Vibe Shift, The
How a Food Influencer Makes Money
How a Single Machine Revolutionized the Fresh Flour-Tortilla Game
How To Become a Food Stylist and Get Paid to Make Food Look Good
How to Become a More Productive Book Author
Inside a Legendary Designer’s Recipe Sketchbook
Italian Region Where Tomato Is Off the Menu, The
Opinion: Eating Right to Avoid Catastrophe
Prescription Dinner: Can Meals Be Medicine?
Q&A with Matt Sartwell, Managing Partner, Kitchen Arts & Letters Bookstore
Science Behind Feeling Hangry, The: and What to Do About It (Besides Eating)
This West Texas Farm Grows the Most Expensive Spice in the World
What It’s Like to Be a Food Writer When You Can Taste Everything You See
When a Country’s Cuisine Becomes a Cultural Export
Why Chef Gavin Kaysen Self-Published His New Cookbook
Writers, Be Wary of Throat-Clearers and Wan Intensifiers. Very, Very Wary.
— podcasts, etcetera —
Every BBQ Style We Could Find in the United States
If Soda Commercials Were Honest
Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back
You’re Dead to Me: The History of Ice Cream
— changed URL —
Why Only 1% Of Japan's Soy Sauce Is Made This Way
— 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
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(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
(Hardcover)
(Kindle)
Human Cuisine
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Herbs: A Global History
(Hardcover)
(Kindle)
Sausage: A Global History
(Hardcover)
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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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Tabula Rasa, Baby: (Not Written in Stone)
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Unbelievable: A Modern Novella
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Here endeth the sales pitch(es)...
...for the moment, anyway.
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