Category Archives: Food for Thought

Food for Thought is useful reading, and occasionally viewing, about food and related matters: mostly blogs, but also a few books and magazines with Amazon links when available for purchase.

Food for Thought: Dainty Desserts for Dainty People

Dainty Desserts for Dainty People is available for download from archive.org, aka The Wayback Machine. It won’t cost you a penny, though you should consider making a contribution to support their work and help insure such treasures continue to be … Continue reading

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Vintage recipes from Milwaukee Library

We stumbled on a remarkable and little-known (judging from the Google search results) resource for mid century recipes: The Historical Recipe Archive of the Milwaukee Public Library. The home page pretty much says it: “For over 20 years, from the … Continue reading

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Questionable recipes and threatening aspics

The pandemic makes strange bedfellows, as evidenced by three Facebook groups we’ve been following recently. Each is an attempt to explore an obscure avenue of our current and former foodways, and each features roughly equal quantities of commentators who like … Continue reading

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To cook a rabbit

Our freezer died the other day and, due to pandemic shortages, we had to buy a smaller one and defrost a number of items for immediate consumption. The package pictured above was one of those items. It was purchased from … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Myra Waldo Complete Book of Oriental Cooking

We have published a couple of recipes from Myra Waldo’s grandiosely-titled paperback, and when we went looking for another in our tattered copy its page was missing. That led us to Amazon.com (affiliate link!) where we were surprised to discover … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food

The Rise is not so much a cookbook as a celebration of Black chefs and their contribution to American culture, and we get to participate by making their food. This is a book you are not likely to put down … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine

We purchased a used copy of the 1991 edition of Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine soon after acquiring a closeout bread machine circa 2010. The recipes were creative and the several that we executed turned out well. In … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Chef’s Table featuring Tootsie Tomanetz on Netflix

Google “Snow’s beans” or “Snow’s brisket” and you will find this blog close to the top of your recommendations. I suppose we’ve been there for a while, but this search has become far more popular in the past week since … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Bill Buford’s Dirt

Bill Buford is a lucky guy. He loves to cook and is good at it. But his true talent is persuading world class chefs to take him under their wing—as a student, a stagiare, a baker. He does the job … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food

A Seat at the Table: A Journey into Jewish Food is a vast survey of Ashkenazi (Poland and Eastern Europe) foodways with over 100 hours of online content including demos, cooking lessons, interviews with cooks and more which the publisher … Continue reading

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