We strive for original content here at PitchKnives, but it just so happens that lately I’ve crossed paths with some interesting food ephemera from all corners of the web. Not wanting our readership to miss out on these tidbits, I’ve compiled a few of them here so that you’ll have more than just your cookbooks and our humble blog to help you while away these long, dark winter evenings. Click away and eat up.
The book lists on Flavorwire are enough to single-handedly lengthen my to-read catalog beyond any sensible proportions. That’s why I was so excited when they recently published a a list of 50 Essential Novels for Foodies. It’s stuffed with plenty of tasty-sounding options that I’ve never heard of before, but any list that includes the cordial-fueled feasts of Redwall…well, they had me at hello.- Being a frequent runner, I’m obsessed with podcasts of all stripes, and one of my new favorites is Snap Judgement. It guess it’s loosely based on the theme of pivotal decisions, but more accurately, it’s theme is…um…cool stuff. A good place to start is their Thanksgiving episode, which is supposedly about gratitude, but ends up being largely about food, too. Just listening to the way the spy in the first story pronounces “Gummi Bears” is worth the price of admission.
The history of cheese, guys! Doesn’t that phrase alone make you excited? If not, here’s a review from History Today that describes the new book Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and Its Place in Western Culture by Paul S. Kindstedt as “succinct, limpid and revelatory.” Why aren’t there any comments for this review? Where my cheese lovers at?- And finally, if you’re still hunting for gifts for the foodie in your life who already has every cookbook and kitchen gadget imaginable, it’s worth perusing the website of Pop Chart Lab. I love this Brooklyn company’s posters, and many of them have a food or drink theme, like this one of Fantastical Fictive Beers or this one displaying the Cartography of Kitchenware. That’s a piece of art that deserves a place at the table.
