A Full Belly

One Page Cookbooks

I like this concept: One page "cookbooks" focused on Indian cuisine. These are more like one sheet formulas, or Cooking for Engineers meets Ruhlman's Ratio. At the very least, a quick way to jog your brain out of a culinary rut. The latest one for biryanis will go in my recipe file, as will this one for traditional Bengali/Oriya sweets.

You Never Know What You Might Learn @ Serious Eats

Serious Efforts: Whole Deer Neck | Serious Eats : Talk

I am going to receive a whole deer neck via FedEx tomorrow. It has been skinned and frozen solid, but is otherwise pretty much intact. I would like some advice from anyone here experienced with taking deer apart. I would like to remove the muscles from each other and from the bone in as large and unmolested pieces as possible. . . I plan on consulting some books and websites on the matter, but was hoping I could get some pointers from the community. Thank you!

Serious Eats: The Year That Was

It's hard to keep up with the insane amount of content that flows through Serious Eats, so I'm glad that Adam is leading the charge (and kicking ass!) on a series of The Year That Was posts this week. It's a great view into the breadth of the Serious Eats beat and the memes and themes that emerged, and a fun way to revisit some of our favorite and most popular posts. My favorite TYTWs so far: Food Media, Burgers, Pizza, New York, Food in Space. May 2009 be even more delicious. Happy New Year!

F*cking Tamale Day

I wish more food blogs read like this:

“Oh man I don’t give a f*ck about the holidays. Christmas is worthless jesus sh*t for kids, thanksgiving is a celebration of bullsh*t too. This time of year just sucks because my tv wants to sell me on snowglobes full of lies. The only thing I actually like about the holidays is f*cking Tamale Day, it’s the best sh*t in the world. I don’t know how you can go wrong with it. Get your friends together, a lot of beer, masa and multiple tubs of pork fat. How can that not be a success?”

Recommended Reading: NCFOOD

NCFood is the North Carolina Folklife Institute's food blog, written by North Carolina historian and Carteret County native David Cecelski. Reading it makes me want to hurry back to my home state and get to know the places, people, and food David describes with such care. Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina...

EatMe

Thanks to the most recent MetaFilter podcast, I discovered the MetaFilter wiki and its EatMe page -- a collection of food-related AskMetafilter threads. Some of my favorites to get you started: Can I eat this? Majick's Cooking Manifesto, Homemade Crunchy Snacks

New Gastropoda

New Gastropoda.com with permalinks AND a RSS feed = More food snark when I want it. Praise the lard!

The new Megnut

Megnut is now all about food. Hooray!

The Hungry Cabbie

NYC The Hungry Cabbie is a food blogger and a cabbie.

A recipe for a food blogger flame war

Shuna's write-up of the Common Wealth Club's Food Blogger panel (and the event itself) triggers quite an interesting reaction in the comments. Recipe for a food blogger flame war: 3 cups drama, 0 parts actual discussion of food, a pinch of bitterness (to taste), garnish with jealousy.

Here's the thing: In every community, members have different expectations of community, different standards of behavior for themselves and others, and different goals for their participation. As I see it there isn't a singular food blogging community, and that's ok.