Food Sites for June 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Isn’t it curious that infantilized images of pigs are routinely used to promote the consumption of pork? Do cute piggies want to be eaten?
(seen at Due South BBQ, Roanoke, VA)
Last month, we were—for the most part—otherwise occupied. Rather than belaboring you with the details, redundantly, you should be able to deduce them, yourself, from the links below. They might also explain why so many entries are about alcohol.
Still, we did manage to post more Substack pages:
“Flaubert’s Parrot,” or my life as a stuffed bird;
“Paleontology, or Something Like It,” on searching for the Nature of Things;
“The Mything Link,” a look at memory and remorse, with a little story;
“Rhetorical Question” explores a few figures of speech; and...
“The Best Laid Schemes o’ Mice an’ Men” recaps an event we’re calling “roadtrippus interruptus;” it’s served with a small appetite-suppressing story.
We also published, in book form, two entire years of “In Other Words” (our Substack posts). Substack Lightnin': Volume One, The First Year, and Substack Lightnin': Volume Two, Second Year are already available through Amazon.
You can, should you choose to do so, 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 liquid distractions, some from On the Table’s culinary quote collection.
Cocktails are society’s most enduring invention! Elsa Maxwell
...the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen. H.L. Mencken
Beer is not a good cocktail party drink, especially in a home where you don’t know where the bathroom is. Billy Carter
The glances over cocktails
That seem to be so sweet
Don’t seem quite so amorous
Over Shredded Wheat. Frank Muir
Gary
June 2024
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— the new sites —
Brewed from Old Bread Crusts, the World’s Oldest Beer Recipe Is Experiencing a Revival
(the hymn to Ninkasi leads to another new brew—this time to fight climate change)
Chutney & Subcontinental Cuisines: A Historic Relationship
(an introduction from New Jersey restaurant/caterer Laree Adda)
Even Older Polish Cookery for Complete Beginners
(Karol Palion’s blogpost, at Forking Around with History, about the search for—and bibliographic methodology employed in—the hunt for the first Polish cookbook)
Food Design, Nutrition, and Innovation
(paper by Fabio Parasecoli, in Frontiers in Public Health)
From Ancient Egypt to Roman Britain, Brewers are Reviving Beers from the Past
(Norman Miller’s BBC survey of modern recreations)
Hangxiety: Why Alcohol Can Leave You Feeling Anxious
(Queensland Health explains what goes on with your brain chemistry, the morning after)
How a ‘Strange,’ ‘Evil’ Fruit Came to Define Italy’s Cuisine
(Ligaya Mishan’s New York Times article about the tomato—”the prince of [Italian] cuisine.”)
In Its Birthplace, the G&T Is a Reclamation
(Jaya Saxena, in Punch, on the Indian history and reinvention of gin & tonic)
Mastering the Art of Making a Cookbook
(Adam Gopnik’s New Yorker article about legendary editor Judith Jones)
Tasting Roman Wine from the Time of Jesus
(Nathan Steinmeyer’s article in Bible History Daily)
Waffles: Breakfast, Dinner, Dessert
(Edward Bottone doesn’t waffle; he tells the whole story at The Vooks Cook)
— inspirational (or otherwise useful) sites for writers/bloggers —
600-Year History of Cookbooks as Status Symbols, A
About French Cooking… It’s Not All Haute
Are Tacos and Burritos Sandwiches? A Judge in Indiana Ruled Yes.
Before Jell-O, Colorful Gelatin Desserts Were Haute Cuisine
Cookbooks Have Always Been Political—Whether Readers Knew It or Not
Cooking in the Books: Cookbooks and Cookery in Popular Fiction
Embracing the Coffee Heritage of Saudi Arabia: From Tradition to Sustainability
Fast Food Forever: How McHaters Lost the Culture War
First Direct Evidence of Adult European Eels Migrating to Their Breeding Place in the Sargasso Sea
Fish Farming on Lake Victoria: A Lethal Ecological Threat
Food Crazes Make Me Want to Roll My Eyes. But First, Pass Me a Crookie
How Natural Wine Became a Symbol of Virtuous Consumption
In Defense of Human Intervention
Insatiability of Recipe Writing, The
Invisible Labor of Being a Food Writer in 2024
Meat-Filled Desserts from Around the World
No, Your Spaghetti Doesn’t Have to Be al Dente: 5 Pasta Myths, Debunked
On Paying Attention to Seasons
Tastes of a Nation, The: M.F.K. Fisher and the Genre of Culinary Literature
We Should All Be Cooking with Fresh Turmeric
What Do Maple Syrup Bottles Have Those Tiny Handles For?
What Do You Want from a Cookbook?
What if Recipes Were Written for Everyone?
— podcasts, etcetera —
AnthroChef: The History of Food
Anything’s Pastable: Eat Sauté Love
Craft Books for Cookbook Writers
Experiencing Reality through Cookbooks: How Cookbooks Shape and Reveal Our Identities
Treacherous, Untold Toll Bartending Takes on the Body, The
Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation
— that’s all for now —
Except, of course, for the usual legalistic mumbo-jumbo and commercial flim-flam:
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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.
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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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The 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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Noirvella (the expanded edition)
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Hot Hot Hot/Risky Business
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The Long & Short of It: A Miscellany
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Beer Taste & Other Disorders
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Galloping Gourmand: A Culinary Collection
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Substack Lightnin': Volume One, The First Year
Substack Lightnin': Volume Two, Second Year
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