Food Blog

I’m compiling a larger list of food blogs to add to my list, but it might be a few days before I get around to it, so I’ll just throw one out here that I found particularly good.

Fire and Knives is a standout among food blogs, it’s good looking and the writing is damn close to brilliant. “There’s a lot of pretension around food - a lot of nonsense written. Sometimes what we read doesn’t seem to have any relevance to our own experience. At the most fundamental level, food should be about the taste but, for those of us who enjoy cooking, there’s another level too. The spirit and alchemy of the kitchen - the Fire and Knives.”

The “relevance to our own experience” is probably why I like this one. I can say I love my Buffalo china coffee mug, stolen from a Steak ‘n Shake (as well as the full set of “Abilene” style dishes stolen by a previous roomate from a Bennigans), and that I hate frozen peas, but I don’t think I can talk about either as eloquently.

“Let me be honest here and admit that I abhor the frozen pea. Pitifully jejune in its unformed state, the frozen pea is a membranous sac containing pea-flavoured juice and perhaps ambition. I’ve never eaten unborn gazelle poached in its mother’s milk so frozen peas are the one remaining food that leave me authentically queasy.”

I should note that The Buffalo China Company is not defunct as he says, but has just been bought and sold a few times, the trademark and logo are still being used by Oneida. You can still buy Buffalo China mugs that are sturdy enough to use as a weapon and then have another cup of coffee. Williams-Sonoma even has them but if you have a restaurant supply store nearby you might be able to find them for cheaper.