It seems the lost art of pickling and canning has found a home in American kitchens. In the spirit of eating local and seasonal produce, canning helps the thrifty consumer stock the pantry. This process is a strong connection to to our…
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Oh, Sweet Basil Reinventing Dinner For the Everything-Woman
Oh, Sweet Basil is a food blog/website that claims to reinvent the idea of family dinner. Like many food blogs, it was created by a mother. One look and you can tell that the website is not just a hobby…
Seeing Your Food Through f/2.8
There are two things that have always inspired me: food and photography. My inspirations led me to Vanessa Rees’ website, which offers recipes and photographs of those recipes prepared. Rees won the 2013 Savuer Best Food Blog Award for her…
Curation Posts
Robin Good’s Curation Playlist on provides a collection of helpful links to info on what makes for successful content curation (which is what you are doing for some of your posts to the site). Follow Robin Good’s tips (found here) for…
High Culture and Hunger
The idea ThinkFoodGroup raises some interesting questions about the relationship between first-world and third-world food practices. Award-winning Chef José Andrés markets his high-end culinary creations along with a platform of education and advocacy in the form of organizations such as http://www.worldcentralkitchen.org. His mission, “To change the world with the power of food.” His restaurants are advertised as “telling a story of a culture through food.” Check out the high production value of this “food preparation” video. How might we think about the relationship between these different projects and what they represent?
The Forme of Cury
A page from the Forme of Cury.
The Forme of Cury, printed in the late 14th century, is one of the oldest cookbooks in English, although not exactly English that you will easily recognize (if you need some help, check out this helpful glossary). This cookbook was written by the master cooks of King Richard II and intended to help instruct on proper preparation of everyday dishes. Read more about it at the British Museum.
Rare and très cher…
Take a quick tour of some unique cookbooks, including a cookbook by artist Salvador Dali, Les Diners de Gala (look here for info on what this rare cookbook sells for). [note: this posting is an example of a “Curation post”]
The Mid-Century Menu
At the Mid-Century Menu blog, you can find such vintage classics and Polynesian Fishsticks and Hawaiian Frankobobs, prepared from vintage cookbooks such as that Carnation’s Easy-Does-It Cookbooks. Published as part of “No Pattern Required,” written by a group of mid-century American culture…
Sharing Family Secrets
The Pot Luck Club from Feed Me A Story on Vimeo.
“Feed Me a Story” is a transmedia project funded in part by the PBS POV’s “Hackathon,” supporting new developments in documentary production. A socio-cultural exploration of food practices, the filmmakers use intergenerational storytelling to get at questions about the American experience through their stories about food. Is this a new kind of documentary filmmaking? cookbook? both? neither?
The Table My Mother Set
Here’s an excellent story about a self-publishing adventure undertaken by Theresa DeCario, whose “The Table My Mother Set” has won several independent publishing awards. Read more about it here: http://www.timesleaderonline.com/page/content.detail/id/508340.html?nav=5008