The rifle season for deer opened this weekend in Vermont. I’m not a hunter, I’m not even terribly good at preparing venison, but the start of hunting season seems to be a bridge for the food-minded to bring us over from the end of the harvest to the start of Thanksgiving. Last year I wrote a piece for DigInVT.com that provided links to information on hunting in Vermont and, more particularly, Vermont cuisine. This year, I’m reading a book excerpt […]

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From the Rant For Your Life blog at Food and Wine magazine’s website “Are Big Flavors Destroying the American Palate?” by Kate Krader. This is from back in April, but because I get my reading recommendations from podcast archives I listen to while running, I think the fact that it was from the last six months is pretty impressive . . . besides, the fact that there’s a Rant for Your Life blog is a wonderful tidbit that never grows old. Now […]

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The New Yorker recently opened up its digital archive for three months of free browsing. Bon Appetit nicely went through and pulled links to their favorite food-related articles. Which brings us to Malcolm Gladwell’s 2001 article “The Trouble with Fries.” The argument here is essentially: if Americans are going to eat a lot of fast food, tweaking the fast food nutritional profile while keeping the taste the same (and not telling people it’s healthy – honestly, why do we keep […]

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I remember being fascinated with The Cake Bible as a kid, Rose Levy Berenbaum’s . . . well, cake bible. The title sort of says it all. Anyhow, I “read” the pictures of the beautiful cakes again and again – I read the recipes, too, but I was only eight so I couldn’t really translate from a recipe on the page into what it might taste like. I did reprise her idea for a spun sugar cage, from what turned […]

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