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: 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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Good Better Best

We had a local (upstate New York) discussion last week about Rogue River Blue, chosen as the world’s best cheese at the 2019/20 World Cheese Awards. Two respected friends and food lovers concurred that was their favorite cheese and wished … Continue reading

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The food groups of Facebook

“I came home and saw my dad hard at work mincing meat on the wooden chopping board. If my dad’s cooking it’s going to be good. He spent a long time in the kitchen today and I didn’t know exactly … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Gastro Obscura Recreating Ancient Recipes

Gastro Obscura: Recreating Ancient Recipes. We are long time readers of the Gastro Obscura website devoted to arcane food cultures and history, and we noticed they have started offering virtual “experiences” in these times of less getting together in person. Recreating … Continue reading

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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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