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.

LocalFlavor won’t honor credit requests [UPDATED]

Posted on December 28, 2015 by Burnt My Fingers

Like a lot of my readers, I use Groupon, LivingSocial and LocalFlavor (formerly DoubleTake Deals, and affiliated with Clipper Magazine) to save a few bucks when I go out to eat and try a new place. You pay in advance for … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: ChefSteps Premium

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Burnt My Fingers

I’ve previously endorsed ChefSteps for their elegant and professional videos of food prep techniques and complete recipes. This page has enough free videos to keep you busy for quite a while… the old fashioned donut recipe definitely has a place … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: Roadfood

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Burnt My Fingers

The other day I got an email with some of the sweetest food writing I’ve seen, describing a phenomenon called Nashville Hot Chicken: “These quarters and halves are ferociously seasoned down to the bone; and their crust, which strips off in … Continue reading →

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Food for thought… ChefTalk

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Burnt My Fingers

ChefTalk is “a food lover’s link to professional chefs” where regular folk can ask questions and get detailed answers based on a lifetime of learning and practicing pro strategies. Here is an example–a thread in which a starving college student … Continue reading →

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What a great meal!

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Burnt My Fingers

I put together a Yelp list of my regular dining rotation in Saratoga Springs, New York, and was embarrassed to discover I’d used the word “great” in almost every review although maybe never coming out and just saying “what a … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: Chef Jacques La Merde

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Burnt My Fingers

Hah! On this Instagram feed, a wise guy who calls himself Jacques La Merde creates food porn by disasembling junk food and reconstructing it with tweezers, then shooting it with a big lens. See if you can recognize the Pop-Tarts®, … Continue reading →

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Food for thought: ChefSteps

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Burnt My Fingers

I was introduced to ChefSteps while doing some work with Modernist Pantry. ChefSteps has short, elegantly produced videos of food preparation, typically modernist cuisine but also some old favorites like crème brulee and pan gravy. My favorite sequences are like … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: So Delushious

Posted on May 2, 2014 by Burnt My Fingers

[Update November 2016: I’m leaving this post up for archival reasons since it still gets quite a few clicks. However, the links have been removed because the So Delushious blog appears to be inactive. (Maybe because Chrissy Teigen wants you to … Continue reading →

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Food for Thought: She Simmers

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Burnt My Fingers

While researching green papaya salads for my Mock Som Tam recipe, I typed “how to make green papaya salad without a mortar and pestle” into the Google search box and up popped She Simmers. Leela Punyaratabandhu was born in Thailand … Continue reading →

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Who knew you could do this with a hot dog?

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Burnt My Fingers

I’ve been saving up a bunch of tasty food-related links, mostly to other blogs. First up is this hot dog serving suggestion from Maida Heatter, a well-respected food writer from the 60s (I’ve got a couple of her cookbooks), who … Continue reading →

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