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Category Archives: Food for Thought
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
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
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
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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Tagged Chinese, Fuchsia Dunlop, Sichuan, Szechuan
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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
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
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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Tagged African American, Southern, southern cooking
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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
Food for Thought: China Sichuan Food
I ran across China Sichuan Food for the umpteenth time while researching Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage recipes (her recipe is here) and realized it’s an excellent idea starter for your own Sichuan dishes. The blogger, Elaine, is a China native but writes … Continue reading
Food for Thought: Alison Roman’s Dining In
Even though I am a huge fan of Alison Roman’s recipes in the New York Times, I resisted buying her cookbook, Dining In. Why? Because her salty kitchen essentials, the first items in the book, were all head nodders, things that … Continue reading