Link Buffet: Bravura Performances
Heads up! I enjoyed the junk food soigné Instagram of Chef Jacques la Merde so much (linked here and here) that you can probably imagine how delighted I am to learn […]
Tag Archives: the plate
Link Buffet: Making Up for Lost Time
Whew! Now that the holiday rush is past, my most recent big writing deadline met, and my visit to my family concluded, I finally have time to catch up on […]
Link Buffet: Eculent Investigations
If you love winter squashes, you’ll love this charmingly illustrated guide to gourds at Lucky Peach. I am always here for new research on multisensory or synaesthetic experiences of eating. […]
Link Buffet: the reasoning for the seasoning
In case you missed it at this blog, I described some of the different ways food and other ingested substances were managed at Eastern State when it was a penitentiary: How and […]
Link Buffet: The Commerce of Everyday Life
Relax, NPR! You’re not too cool to make your own veggie broth. It’s easy and convenient and economical. Although I never thought of blending the cooked vegetables to make a thicker soup stock, […]
Link Buffet: Food Evolutions
This is so cool: salad grown in space! Slightly more complicated than the hydroponic greens I’ve seen in fictional space shuttles, since we haven’t figured out how to simulate Earth-like […]
Link Buffet: Made for TV
Midcentury Menu is a blog that recipe-tests vintage dishes like meat loaves and meringue pies and posts the (often hilarious) results. The blogmistress recently teamed up with the food stylist […]
Link Buffet: Classics for a reason
In Guernica, Helen Rosner rhapsodizes about the blank beauty of chicken tenders. Nothing is more nothing than a chicken tender. A roast chicken has a certain dinner-party elegance to it, […]
Link Buffet: Ephemera
I finally made time to read Rachel Laudan’s Plea for Culinary Modernism, and found it well worth the #longread. Lauden’s argument is that the culinary past we presently have a nostalgia […]
