Trends or Common Sense? What's the Recipe? Happy Holidays!!!

Paleobiology ~
Neanderthals Had a Sweet Tooth ~

"The study, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, adds to the growing body of evidence that Neanderthals weren't just spear-wielding carnivores"

Our Grand-Grand-Grand-... relatives had a sweet tooth, enjoyed cereals, other carbs, dates, barley, legumes...
Read more: Neanderthals Had a Sweet Tooth; news.discovery.com

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"Best Wishes for a Very Happy New Year!!!"

Delightfully yours, Food Meditations

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Good question
Our hunger for cookbooks. Can you really learn to cook from a book?...
Read more: What’s the Recipe? newyorker.com

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Power ingredients
~ The curly bristled Mangalitsa hogs are the most corpulent and unusual in a parade of breeds that have found favor among chefs for their richer taste...
Read more: Betting on the Next ‘It’ Pig; nytimes.com

~ Growing Demand For Bison Meat Strains Ranchers; huffingtonpost.com

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Remarkable recipe
This is an amped-up pudding. But the word “mousse” was irresistibly sex in 1966. Come to think of it, it still is...
Read more: Chocolate-Rum Mousse, 1966; nytimes.com

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Trends or common sense?
~ ...looking at the Year of Pie, along with a lot of neck meat, whey, kumquats and pimento cheese for good measure...
Read more: 2011 Food And Restaurant Trends: Do You Agree With These Predictions? huffingtonpost.com

~ Global food trends for 2011; thenational.ae
~ New food trends for 2011; theglobeandmail.com
~ Gourmet hot dogs? Chefs predict food trends for 2011; ctv.ca

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Appetibilis
~ Buche de Noel; ouichefnetwork.com
~ A Thought For Food: Recipe: Cinnamon Rice Pudding; athoughtforfood.net
~ A Matter of Perspective; aspicyperspective.blogspot.com
~ Peas with tomato sauce; eatgreek.net
~ Roasted Jalapeno Infused Tequila; kitchenkonfidence.com

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Food Meditations [by ockstyle]

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Menus by Nigella Lawson ~
Simple but impressive New Year's Eve dinner party

"This festive feast is an easy to prepare fun-loving affair"

The menu from the shopping-list for 4 recipes that serves 8...
Read more: Menus : Simple but impressive New Year's Eve dinner party; bbc.co.uk

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"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." ~Anaïs Nin (quotegarden.com)

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Culture
Of all our prejudices, one of the strangest is surely the strange linguistic phenomenon of word aversion...
Read more: Why Do We Hate the Word “Moist”? good.is

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The World in 2036
...as a chef, campaigner and father, I now take the future of food much more seriously...
Read more: Jamie Oliver on what we will eat; economist.com

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Allrecipes.com 11 Trends for 2011 Measuring Cup Report

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Excellence and flavor
The 15 best things The Times’s restaurant critic ate in New York City in 2010...
Read more: The Best Dishes of 2010; nytimes.com

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Classic flavour pairings
Scientists recently announced that they have mapped the genetic codes of both wild strawberries and a particular type of cacao...
Read more: Take five: Best food combinations; thenational.ae

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Bloggers notes
~ Food Trends 2011: Part Two: Chefs Derek Ingraham, Tony Le, and Brett Yasukawa; acanadianfoodie.com
~ Sweet 16 – 2010 Food Fads or Trends? penandfork.com

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Healthy corner
~ What Is in Fast Food? A Newly Discovered Reason to Avoid Fast Food; huffingtonpost.com

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Appetibilis
~ Salt and pepper prawns; jenniferjoyce.co.uk
~ Baking Substitution Guide; vegnews.com
~ Smoke and Mirrors: Cranberry Sassafras Root Beer Goose; saltyseattle.com
~ The Crown of Comfort Food - Apple and Cranberry Dumplings; fourpointsfoodie.com
~ Try this Delicious Milk Cake; spoon-and-chopsticks.blogspot.com

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Sassafras Root Tea

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Fact-checkers ~
Track Food Trends With Google Books ~

"...the evil geniuses at Google Labs have come up with another way to waste company time—I mean, conduct research..."

Google Books, the online digital library that allows you to search inside thousands of books, might be the most useful tool for...
Read more: Track Food Trends With Google Books; smithsonianmag.com

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"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much." ~Estonian Proverb (quotegarden.com)

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Enchanted evenings
A night by the fireplace with your significant other and a sexy crustacean. 'Tis the season for eating, drinking, and staying out later than usual...
Read more: Fire-Roasted Lobster and Other Romantic Midnight Snacks; theatlantic.com

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Hall for many dishes
From entree to cappuccino, short ribs to bacon-wrapped bacon...
Read more: The 10 Best Dishes of 2010; laweekly.com

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Food for music
It's probably no surprise that Niccolo Paganini loved food, because as a youngster he was deprived of it...
Read more: Composers In The Kitchen: Paganini's Meat Lovers' Ravioli; npr.org

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Seasonal
~ Identifying and Cooking Honey Mushrooms...
Read more: Honey Mushrooms, Caution and Pierogi; honest-food.net

~ Snow Cream and Sugar on Snow: Blizzard Food; slashfood.com
~ Practical Locavorism: Bananas In Winter; npr.org

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Travel bites
From Bangladesh to Brazil, or what photojournalism can reveal about food and cultural context...
Read more: What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets; brainpickings.org

~ The Must-Have Kitchen Gadget From the Gaza Strip; theatlantic.com

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Blogging notes
Christopher Borrelli is a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, a part-time food writer, and a blogger for the Tribune's food blog The Stew, and...
Read more: A Food Blogger Is Sick of All You Foodies; eater.com

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Appetibilis
~ Christmas Cookies Win A Trip To The Caribbean; npr.org
~ Spaghetti Alla Puttanesca, sort of; fussfreecooking.com
~ Tortelli di zucca; memoriediangelina.blogspot.com
~ Brie and Roasted Tomato Bruschetta; simpleskillet.com
~ Sunday Lunch – Sardinian Couscous & Wild Morel Risotto; islandvittles.com

Struffoli

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Trend-o-Meter : The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, (Yet Sooo Tasty!)

Party cooking ~
16 Easy Holiday Appetizers ~

"These recipes for instant appetizers use 5 ingredients or fewer (not counting oil, salt and pepper)"

Smoked salmon tartare, artichoke and goat cheese dip, lemon-garlic shrimp, and other dinner-party-ready first courses...
Read more: 16 Easy Holiday Appetizers; theatlantic.com

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"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." ~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825 (quotationspage.com)

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Food at first sight
... the creation of Rich Torrisi, 31, and Mario Carbone, 30, who met more than 12 years ago at the Culinary Institute of America and ...
Read more: Deli by day, delight by night; ft.com

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Food choices
...We will buy food from educated vendors, eat seasonally and sharpen our skills in the kitchen...
Read more: New Year's resolutions for food-lovers; lohud.com

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Trend-o-Meter

~ Food trucks, pickling, meatless Mondays, cooking sous vide, local produce...
Read more: Looking Back at the Year’s Food Trends; marthastewart.com

~ ...here's a list of the ten biggies that defined this year. Pie, designer ice, Korean tacos...
Read more: 10 Food Memes, Themes, and Schemes of 2010; seriouseats.com

~ Nobody likes to be caught with their pants down, thinking that sushi is cool when it’s clearly not anymore, or...
Read more: The Best 2010 Food Trends Report Ever - Trend-o-Meter; chow.com

~ Food and Beverage Trends For 2010; csnews.com
~ Top Food Trend Predictions for 2011; thedailymeal.com

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Cooking notes
~ The writers of a new cookbook discuss the scientific hows and whys of cooking without becoming pedantic or bewildering...
Read more: Asked & Answered | Ideas in Food; nytimes.com

~ The Ultimate Wagyu Beef Cooking Guidelines; theinternetchef.biz

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Travel bites
Introducing Greetje, an Amsterdam restaurant that lives up to Holland's rich culinary history...
Read more: Eurofile | Dutch Treat; nytimes.com

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Appetibilis
~ Flavor Trends for 2011; thebroccolihut.com
~ True First Cut Chuck Roast; ideasinfood.com
~ Brasato {Braised Short Ribs with Vegetables and Herbs}; bellalimento.com
~ Spanakopita and the Legend of the Phyllo Whisperer. prettypeasrecipes.blogspot.com
~ Strong to the Finish, 'Cause I Eats Me Spinach!; cooksbookblog.com

Jade Buddha Salmon Tartare

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Annual harvest ~
Olives from Spain. Olé! ~

"The olives being picked (by hand) were destined for the table, and so far no-one has come up with a mechanical system that doesn't bruise the fruit"

Of the enormous variety available these days, how do you decide which olives to buy, and...
Read more: Olives from Spain. Olé! guardian.co.uk

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"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.” ~Hippocrates (thinkexist.com)

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Food trends ...
~ Many of last year’s major trends were responses to the big bad economic wolf...
Read more: Culinary Trends Report 2010; starchefs.com

~ Food trends can be as fickle and nutty as runway fashions but usually, the vagaries of both are driven by social or economic moods...
Read more: Top Food Trends, 2011 - Word of Mouth; canada.com

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Holiday notes
It's that gluttonous time of year again. But just which foods pack on the most pounds?...
Read more: Calories in Holiday Foods from Egg Nog to Matzo: Shocking Equations; thedailybeast.com

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Food for thought
~ Video: Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Video on TED.com; ted.com

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How would the cakes be interactive?
According to tech blog Gizmodo, Disney has been awarded a patent for so-called "interactive cakes,"...
Read more: Dawn of the Interactive Cake; thefoodsection.com

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Healthy corner
~ ...At the end of the day, it still comes down to calories - those that come in and those that go out...
Read more: The Most Ridiculous, Absurd and Over-Hyped Diets of 2010; shine.yahoo.com

~ Slim, Trim...and Healthy; livingwithout.com
~ Drop that spoon! The truth about breakfast cereals; guardian.co.uk

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From the mixer
~ Bonnie Stern: Pages to salivate over; nationalpost.com
~ Top 10 Young Chefs in Europe; wsj.com

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Appetibilis
~ Pesto faster than you can say presto; nationalpost.com
~ Vegan Pesto-Stuffed Tomatoes; vegangela.com
~ LAMB ROAST in Garam Masala!; cardamomhills.blogspot.com
~ coq au vin blanc; gourmettraveller.wordpress.com
~ The Never-Ending Garden; tasty-trials.blogspot.com


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