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Do you have favorite food web sites? I have favorite recipe sites, but I don't really have any favorite honest-to-goodness food sites. Places where the conceptual aspects of food and cooking are explored. From time to time I post about other food blogs that I like. And as a ritual on Wednesdays I do check out the New York Times and Los Angeles Times food sections online (both require free registration to access). There are also some interesting "communities" like the Craigslist Food Forum, Fud Court, Chowhound and eGullet, but I believe there is still room for more cutting edge forums on the subject so close to my heart--all things culinary.
I recently came across a site in its infancy called spooncore. The publisher was soliciting contributions and has an interesting take on how we think about food:
"spooncore began with an idea towards finding commonality with strangers, a pick up line, if you will, that started with the inquiry: "do you eat food?" an absurdist rhetoric with a known outcome, but also a prompt to stop and think and realize that something simple like eating can and necessarily should be thought about, deeply, in terms of pervasiveness, identity, determinism, art, color, smell, sound and movement. spoon-core is all up in that business. more importantly, it is about the awareness of fun to be had, and from thinking about old things newly."
What I post on Cooking with Amy is intended to be both entertaining and informative. Anything of a more philosophical nature may find a home on spooncore. My first article has been published there, click on "recipe for a kitchen meditation" to read it. If you have some thoughts on food that are a little more esoteric, you might enjoy the site or you may consider contributing as well.
Spooncore is no longer online
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Even More Food Web Sites
Do you have favorite food web sites? I have favorite recipe sites, but I don't really have any favorite honest-to-goodness food sites. Places where the conceptual aspects of food and cooking are explored. From time to time I post about other food blogs that I like. And as a ritual on Wednesdays I do check out the New York Times and Los Angeles Times food sections online (both require free registration to access). There are also some interesting "communities" like the Craigslist Food Forum, Fud Court, Chowhound and eGullet, but I believe there is still room for more cutting edge forums on the subject so close to my heart--all things culinary.
I recently came across a site in its infancy called spooncore. The publisher was soliciting contributions and has an interesting take on how we think about food:
"spooncore began with an idea towards finding commonality with strangers, a pick up line, if you will, that started with the inquiry: "do you eat food?" an absurdist rhetoric with a known outcome, but also a prompt to stop and think and realize that something simple like eating can and necessarily should be thought about, deeply, in terms of pervasiveness, identity, determinism, art, color, smell, sound and movement. spoon-core is all up in that business. more importantly, it is about the awareness of fun to be had, and from thinking about old things newly."
What I post on Cooking with Amy is intended to be both entertaining and informative. Anything of a more philosophical nature may find a home on spooncore. My first article has been published there, click on "recipe for a kitchen meditation" to read it. If you have some thoughts on food that are a little more esoteric, you might enjoy the site or you may consider contributing as well.
Spooncore is no longer online
- On The Road Again
Subscribers to the Cooking with Amy newsletter already know that I am going out of town for a few days. In fact I'm heading up to Oregon to see some Shakespeare plays in Ashland and up the coast to visit with my adorable niece and nephew. As usual,...
- Blog Resources
I am blessed in that I always seem to have something to write about. Writing really does come easily to me most of the time. But I have to admit, I'm so excited at the prospect of going to the famed French Laundry tomorrow, that I'm actually a...
- More Reading
If your social agenda looks anything like mine, you have some serious shopping to do for wedding presents. Wondering what would make a nice addition to something on the registry? How about a cookbook? Check out SF Station for my foodie feature Cookbooks...
- More Food Blogs
The wonderful thing about surfing food web sites is you get to be an armchair traveller. There are many places I would love to go and visiting certain sites, blogs in particular, gives me a window into those places and what life there, especially culinary...
- Network Neutrality
Food bloggers around the Internet are staging a protest today against the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006, a US bill backed by telecom and cable companies that could eliminate so-called Net Neutrality. Under the new...