Food Sites for February 2024
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Winter is citrus season... not that it grows here in the northeast.
February is so unpleasant that the ancients wisely made it shorter than all the other months. Later, pitiless scientists decided to add an extra February day every four years. Their excuse was that this was required to make the calendar come out right... but I suspect it was just to remind us that it’s an election year—so, basically, rubbing salt in a wound.
We are, however, still scribbling away—working on a collection of stories based on an earlier novella. January saw us adding new stories about Natty Vero (“The Social Contract” and “About Face”). Naturally, we’ve also posted more Substack pages:
“WIP-lashes” adds one of those new stories about our current favorite anti-hero;
“Who Was That Masked Man?” who knows, anymore?;
“Everything I learned from Hipparchus” offers proof that math is not required to achieve nerdiness;
“Position Desired” is a tongue-in-cheek classified ad;
You can, should you choose to, 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, that includes our food writing and anything else we manage to get into print.
More seasonal items from On the Table’s culinary quote collection.
“...a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness”― William Shakespeare
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”—John Steinbeck
“February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.”― Shirley Jackson
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”— Edith Sitwell
“The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.”—Terri Guillemets
Gary
February 2024
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— the new sites —
(Barnaby Conrad III—author of Absinthe: History in a Bottle—writes, in The New Criterion, on the role of the green fairy in the arts)
(Marielle Williamson, in The Bittman Project, on legal restrictions of First Amendment rights in support of the dairy industry)
“How Do You Reduce a National Dish to a Powder?”: The Weird, Secretive World of Crisp Flavours
(a British take on the science behind potato-chip flavors, by Amelia Tait, in The Guardian)
Origin and Spread of Domestication and Farming
(PDF of Premendra Priyadarshi’s 2021 book, based on research using archaeology and DNA analysis)
School Lunches: the Last 120 Years
(Lexi Earl’s essay at Vittles)
Sweet Wine, Explained: Everything You Need to Know About the Delicious, Sugary Tipple
(Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen are pouring in the Robb Report)
This Prohibition-Era Map Is a Love Letter to Alcohol
(Frank Jacobs’ “Big Think” article for Gastro Obscura)
Unending Quest to Build a Better Chicken, The
(Boyce Upholt reports, in Noēma, on the history of man-made changes in Gallus gallus domesticus)
(according to Nathan Steinmeyer, in Bible History Daily, archaeology provides some answers)
What Is Gingerbread? The Answer Is Complicated
(Anne Ewbank’s answer at Gastro Obscura)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
Biblical Bread: Baking Like the Ancient Israelites
Consumers Equate Healthy with Sustainable Food. But Is It Always True?
Economics Behind Grandma’s Tuna Casseroles, The
Feast of Seven Fishes, The: Cultural Images That No Longer Exist
Food Design, Nutrition, and Innovation
From Birch-Tree Juice to Christmas Bread, Our Food Tells the Story of Who We Are
How a Midnight Feast Became a Month-Long Dining Extravaganza in New Orleans
How America’s Beloved Meyer Lemon Caused a Mid-Century Citrus Panic
It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Historical Fiction
Jane Grigson: Her Life and Legacy
Kitchen Chemistry Hacks Explained
Kugel and Pudding: Tasting Jewish American Foodways
Ladle Me a Bowl of the Midwestern Good Stuff
Meatballs Made with Mammoth DNA Created by Australian Food Startup
Messy History of Emily Dickinson’s Black Cake Recipe, The
Most Famous Local Dish from Every State, The
One Day—and One Night—in the Kitchen at Les Halles
Recipes in Memoirs and Narrative Nonfiction
Revolutionary Chicago: from the Rise of the Hog Butcher to Modern Culinary Capital
Scammy AI-Generated Book Rewrites Are Flooding Amazon
Scientists Played Music to Cheese as It Aged. Hip-Hop Produced the Funkiest Flavor
Seaweed: Should We Be Eating More of It?
Sriracha Shortage Is a Very Bad Sign, The
These Books Will Help Heal Your Relationship with Food
Why is Food Education so Unappetising?
Why Osage Chef Ben Jacobs Launched a Direct-to-Tribe Meal Delivery Service
— another blog —
— podcasts, etcetera —
Eat, Drink, Read: Dwight Garner’s Obsession with Word and Table
What Medieval Junk Food Was Like
What We Ate 60 Years Ago / Rare Commercials from the 50s and 60s
Why Don’t We Roast Chestnuts Anymore?
— 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 are providing 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)
The Backstories: As retold by Gary Allen
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Tabula Rasa, Baby: (Not Written in Stone)
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Unbelievable: A Modern Novella
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Hot Hot Hot/Risky Business
(Paper)
(Kindle)
The Long & Short of It: A Miscellany
(Paper)
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Beer Taste & Other Disorders
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Galloping Gourmand: A Culinary Collection
(Paper)
(Kindle)
Here endeth the sales pitch(es)...
...for the moment, anyway.
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