Food Sites for January 2023
Thursday, December 15, 2022
At times like this, we really miss our old woodstove.
December brought the season’s first snow, and bitter cold (or, at least, what seems bitter—as we’ve fallen out of practice since the beginning of last Spring). Since we haven’t had much incentive for getting out of the house, we wrote one short story, made notes for the next one, and posted several Substack newsletters:
Holiday Dinner with Friends... reaffirmed Dr Sanscravat’s misanthropic approach to celebratory dining.
Lucre, Feeeeelthy Lucre described one’s early days as a freelancer.
Booksigning is about unwarranted optimism and unexpected results.
Once More, Under the WIP is about editing—and a little taste of a work-(that was, at the time)-in-progress.
Who knows what January will bring?
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 online scribbles can be found at A Quiet Little Table in the Corner and other Substack pages. There’s even an Amazon author’s page, mostly about our food writing.
A few wintery words from On the Table’s culinary quote collection:
There is nothing like a plate or a bowl of hot soup, its wisp of aromatic steam making the nostrils quiver with anticipation, to dispel the depressing effects of a grueling day at the office or the shop, rain or snow in the streets, or bad news in the papers. Louis P. De Gouy
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink. P.G. Wodehouse
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox. Tobias Smollett
Out of snow, you can't make cheesecake. Jewish Proverb
Gary
January 2023
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— the new sites —
5 Brewing Innovations That Are Changing Craft Beer
(Jerard Fagerberg, at InsideHook, on some hi-tech innovations to the ancient process of brewing)
Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum
(apparently, they also snarfed down pizza while they watched)
(detailed instructions from Elska á Fjárfelli, AKA Susan Verberg)
Fish That Sparked a National Obsession, A
(Robyn Wilson’s article on the history of Portugal’s love of bacalhau—salt cod—for the BBC)
(Diana Hubbell’s tribute to international foods-to-drink-by, at Gastro Obscura)
History of the Cocktail Party, The
(Jessica Fields’s article for VinePair)
(James Somers explains metabolism for The New Yorker)
How France’s King Charles VI Helped Protect Roquefort Cheese
(Nico Danilovich, in Tasting Table, on an early example of government protection of a regional product)
In The Miracle of Salt, Naomi Duguid Celebrates a Necessity
(Laura Brehaut reviews Naomi Duguid’s ninth book for National Post)
Inside the Scientific Quest to Understand Brussels Sprouts
(Inverse article that focuses on bitterness and biology)
(Scott Alexander revives—and expands on—questions about the veracity of oenophiles “expert opinions” for Asterisk Magazine)
Midwestern Origin of Fried Green Tomatoes, The
(Issue 72 of David S. Shields’ Unexpected Origins)
No More Fakelore: Revealing the Real Pennsylvania Dutch Cuisine
(NPR’s Nancy Shute gets the lowdown from William Woys Weaver)
Oldest Cooked Leftovers Ever Found Suggest Neanderthals Were Foodies
(article, in The Guardian, on recent discoveries in the famous Shanidar Cave)
(Linda Bartoshuk’s article, in Inference, on flavor as an “aggregate of all sensations”)
Short History of Espresso in Italy and the World, A
(Jonathan Morris’ paper in 2008’s 100% Espresso Italiano, edited by Maurizio Cociancich
Viking Nordic Food and Beverages Bibliography
(huge medieval list compiled by Susan Verberg, AKA Elska á Fjárfelli)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
10 Food Movies and TV Shows That Even Your (Very) Extended Family Will Love
Cooking and Tasting as Complex practice in the Work of Amy Trubek
Did You Know Africa Had a Major Impact on French Cuisine? Everything to Know
Drink Culture Doesn’t Have a “Foodie.” Here’s Why.
Get Back to the Land on a Foraging Adventure
How the Word “Vanilla” Came to Mean “Boring”
How to Make Autocorrect Work the Way You Want
Most Mispronounced Foods & Drinks from Every Country, The
Not Just How, But Why: Recipes That Teach
Please Take a Stand in Recipe Writing
Reflecting on A Year of Teaching
Researching Food Cultures Without Written Recipes
Restaurant-ing with John Margolies
Scientists Don’t Agree on What Causes Obesity, but They Know What Doesn’t
Should You Follow Expiration Dates and Sell-by Dates?
Skyline Chili, and Cincinnati Chili in General, Explained by a Local as Best She Can
Taste of Belonging, The: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Commensality and Collectivity
Technology of Writing, The: From the Essay to GPT-3
The Only Sure Thing with AI Is Writing Will Get Blander and the Rich Will Get Richer
What America’s First Cookbook Says About Our Country and Its Cuisine
Why Do We Stuff Foods with Other Types of Food, Anyway?
Why We’re Loving Mid-Century Middle-American Food
World Needs Processed Food, The
— 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
(Hardcover)
(Kindle)
Human Cuisine
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Herbs: A Global History
(Hardcover)
(Kindle)
Sausage: A Global History
(Hardcover)
(Kindle)
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
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Ephemera: a short collection of short stories
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Prophet Amidst Losses
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Future Tense: Remembrance of Things Not Yet Past
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Backstories: As retold by Gary Allen
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Tabula Rasa, Baby: (Not Written in Stone)
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Unbelievable: A Modern Novella
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Here endeth the sales pitch(es)...
...for the moment, anyway.
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