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: 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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Food for thought: The Inquiring Chef

I questioned if Andy Ricker’s instruction to toast rice for 45 minutes to manke rice powder might be excessive, and took to the internet. There I found The Inquiring Chef’s recipe which required only 10 minutes and, best of all, … Continue reading

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Food for thought: The Takeout food blog

Judging from our own stats, people are spending a lot of time looking for ideas on things to cook at home. Which is how we discovered The Takeout food blog. This Chicago-based site is where we learned that Alinea, Grant … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: The Food of Sichuan by Fuchsia Dunlop

  We received The Food of Sichuan for Christmas and discovered that, rather than an entirely new book, it is “a new updated version of the classic Land of Plenty”.  If you didn’t get the older book on our recommendation, … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: The Chef Show

Chef friend Brady Duhame suggested we watch The Chef Show. After dumpster-diving half a dozen episodes, we can see why. The interactions of Roy Choi, Jon Favreau and guest chefs are packed with good kitchen technique and preparation tips we … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Texas BBQ Posse

  As we were reminiscing about good times with Vencil Mares, the latest newsletter from Texas BBQ Posse popped into our inbox. These are Dallas-based folks (many work for the Dallas Morning News) and since there is not all that … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook is delightful in multiple ways. Toni Tipton-Martin is a fine descriptive writer who documented her 300 African American cookbooks in The Jemima Code, which won a James Beard Award. Now, … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Indian Instant Pot Cookbook

[6/23. See important UPDATE at the end of this post. Please read before you cook from this book!] Our extended family includes a two-career couple with two small children and, as you might expect, they are very strapped for time. They … Continue reading

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