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: Hebbar’s Kitchen

My friend Minita is quite the polymath. She’s a tenured college professor, member of my local city council, author of best-selling lesbian romances, and an excellent Indian vegetarian cook. When she told me Hebbar’s Kitchen was her favorites source of … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Onolicious Hawai’i

During my advertising career, I had a dream assignment for a rental car agency based in Hawaii. Each year they’d run a sweepstakes for travel agents and it was my job to scout locations and attractions that might appeal to … Continue reading

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Clynk makes container recycling easy

In New York we have a 5 cent deposit on recyclable containers for beer, soda, fortified seltzer and water (but not tea, energy drinks, cider or wine, go figure). I’m sure that most folks simply toss the empties in the … Continue reading

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Food for thought: TikTok Recipe Designers

“It’s incredibly satisfying to watch Abernathy make a chopped salad on TikTok, in an A.S.M.R.-heavy video”. That is New Yorker food editor Hannah Goldfield, describing the chopped salad designed by Pierce Abernathy and served up from the Hungry House ghost … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Secret-sauce.net

Occasionally we see a new name in the referrals on our WordPress dashboard. It was such with secret-sauce.net so we clicked on the link to check it out. And indeed there are some juicy knockoffs of commercial recipes such as Wendy’s … Continue reading

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Food for thought: 2nd Easy Gourmet Cookbook

“All these recipes are useful—which cannot be said for much of what appears in print. Cookbooks are useful mainly to spur the brain, by reminding a cook that she hasn’t served veal in a long time.” You and I might … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: EmmyMade

I first heard about the Emmymade YouTube channel from a food friend who was about to attempt her rib steak cooked in a jar. Emmy Cho started a video blog while living in Japan in which she would unbox and … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: PressureLuckCooking.com

Pressureluckcooking.com has more ads and unnecessary in-progress photos than any other blog we’ve seen: when we couldn’t get one recipe to print out by itself there were 49 printer preview pages that preceded it. And yet there are three reasons … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: House of X Tia

 Christina Tia is a Lao cook who shows a lot of media savvy in promoting her YouTube channel through Facebook, Instagram and more. She’s been doing it skillfully for several years yet has relatively few views (in the tens … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: The Fermentation School

The Fermentation School, according to their website, is “ a collective of food authors and teachers who are fermenting a better food system for land, people, and the microbes on which we depend. Come on in and have a seat … Continue reading

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