reading round-up #7
reads and recipes with little to no thanksgiving
before we dive into this week’s reading round-up, a bit of housekeeping: i spent much of the first few weeks of november prepping for a little pie pop-up at my favorite bakery in berlin—yes, i’m incredibly biased. the menu was so fun and i had a great time checking in with my former colleagues and filling-shaping-baking a ton of really tasty pies alongside them, and with their help.
due to the prep and corresponding recipe development for said pop-up, plus a few other projects i’ve been working on and plenty of lost hours spent sitting in the dark, staring into the light of my phone, i’ve been “busy” and have fallen behind on some of my planned recipe development for the newsletter. don’t worry though, i’ve got some really great things in the works that i’m excited to share with you soon, from french onion soup to lasagna, brownie cookies to the confit mushroom and garlic stuffing hand pies from the pop-up.
i did manage to publish a handy little recipe index, so you can now quickly and easily find all of my recipes in one place. i’m also hoping to get a teeny tiny, not at all inconvenient survey to all of you soon for some feedback and input that will help me make my recipes and newsletter even better—so keep an eye out!
moving on from housekeeping: if you’re not new here, you know what to expect from my reading round-ups. here are some quick links to those previously published in case you want to catch up: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6. some articles linked may be behind paywalls; consider that both a warning and a challenge.
thanksgiving is later this week so we’ve all been inundated with recipes for sides, stuffings, pies, rolls and turkeys, and i don’t feel the need to add my two cents. however, these fluffy, swirled bay leaf butter rolls did catch my attention and i will more than likely be baking them to “celebrate.”
other recipes on my list, turkey day aside, include: sweet and sour jammy shallots, miso and sancho pepper steak au poivre, yunnan small pot rice noodle soup, yuzu-glazed sweet potato & sesame babka buns, caramelized apple pie, sage caramel (sage! caramel!), a revisit to my spaghetti and meatballs, and the already made, already loved cheesy chipotle shrimp tacos and vegan chocolate muffins with olive oil and poached quince. see you next week!
Food as medicine, art, status, and sport
The Life-Affirming Properties of Sichuan Pepper
invisible labour, invisible food costs
Yia Vang: Hmong food is ‘such a young cuisine’
Is There a Case for Gatekeeping?
Melek Erdal’s Baked Candied Pumpkin with Tahini and Walnuts
National Cuisine Is a Useful Illusion
A home chef offers a private Sichuanese supper club in Bed-Stuy, so I tried it
Thank you for including me! Can’t wait to do some reading (and anxiously awaiting the mushroom and garlic hand pies recipe - I missed the pop up bc of work but I’m desperate to try)
Thank you for the shout-out! Also, those bayleaf bread rolls also caught my attention - so intriguing! And sage caramel?! Sounds worth trying!