Beat the Winter Doldrums With Some New Food Blogs

Lindsay Beyerstein

I don’t care what the almanac says, winter is officially here. Our weekly vegetable deliveries are done for the season. Like Amanda Marcotte, I’m feeling a little less inspired in the kitchen now that I’m no longer called upon to use up, say, two giant kholrabis and a spray of edamame beans on short notice.

Food websites are a dependable source of inspiration. So, I’m going to take up Amanda’s meme and share my favorites.

Serious Eats. This is my all-round favorite food website for quick dinner ideas, technique tutorials, tastings, and New York restaurant reviews. Their pizza blog, Slice, covers every aspect of the pizza universe in almost frightening depth, from ethnographies of regional pizza styles to tips for the home pizza chef. I’m especially partial to SE’s Cook the Book feature wherein their experts whip up recipes from popular cookbooks. CTB is also a good source of inspiration if you have a foodie on your holiday shopping list.

Eats Well With Others. A blog by Joanne, an M.D./Ph.D. student whose cooking aesthetic overlaps with mine. Joanne’s a de facto vegetarian who is constantly dreaming up hearty and inventive dishes featuring my favorite ingredients: sweet potatoes, winter squash, chick peas, and whole grains. She’s also a damn good food photographer.

Homesick Texan. I’m making her Stuffed Pumpkin With Cheese, Bacon and Chipotle Chiles for my next dinner party.

David Lebovitz: Living the Sweet Life in Paris. An American expat pastry chef with a good sense of humor. His carnitas recipe is sublime.

Tuesdays with Dorie. A group baking blog originally convened to test the recipes in Dorie Greenspan’s Baking: From My Home to Yours. Greenspan’s pie crust recipe is my all-time favorite, and trust me, I’ve tried them all. If you make it right, the dough flakes like a croissant.

Other fine food blogs on my RSS reader: Pan Gravy Kadai Curry; Tess’s Japanese Kitchen; Viet World Kitchen; Rasa Malaysia; and, of course, Smitten Kitchen.

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Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning investigative journalist and In These Times staff writer who writes the blog Duly Noted. Her stories have appeared in Newsweek, Salon, Slate, The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and other publications. Her photographs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times’ City Room. She also blogs at The Hillman Blog (http://​www​.hill​man​foun​da​tion​.org/​h​i​l​l​m​a​nblog), a publication of the Sidney Hillman Foundation, a non-profit that honors journalism in the public interest.
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