Food for thought #36
A weekly round-up for hungry readers📚
Reading
I was interviewed by The Bookseller magazine for this week’s issue, which focuses on Ireland, on smashing stereotypes and ripping up the cookery rule book
There is no better way to explore the world than through the universal language of food - the first feature by Alex O’Neill, my Masarap author, in her new gig as food writer for Image
Speaking of fantasies, why are people decorating the inside of their refrigerators? Why indeed.
Photo essay: Penny De Los Santos on how every meal tells a story
Twenty-five years after becoming the Guardian’s restaurant critic, this extract from Jay Rayner’s new book finds him in a reflective mood
Can anything beat Heinz baked beans? The pantry classic is trending again. Did they ever really go out of fashion, though?
Editing without ego: How Katharine S. White quietly shaped The New Yorker’s writers. Amy Reading on artistic collaboration, egotistical male editors and the idea of the genius editor1
I found the book lover’s dream holiday in Scotland (spoiler alert: it’s got a two-year waiting list)
Scrolling
‘Well I’ll be goddamned if that’s not a good hack’ - there are plenty of videos out there of people trying someone else’s hack, but this one - a hack for opening jars - is the funniest I’ve seen, down to the death metal playing in the car.
Check out this chopsticks tip for twirling noodles.
Does it matter how you slice a chicken breast? Cook’s Illustrated taste testers say it does.
Listening
Watching
Word of the week
ICYMI
You may know me as a cookbook publisher, but I have a second love
Last summer, I went to the Hodges Figgis bookshop in Dublin on a little recon mission to browse the children’s books for inspiration for my publishing house’s first children’s book, Seed to Supper.
About me
I’m Kristin Jensen, the founder, publisher and editor at Blasta Books and Nine Bean Rows. Before I started my publishing house, I was a freelance editor and food writer for over 20 years and I’ve co-authored three books. I pretty much eat, sleep and breathe books and food. You can also find me on Instagram @edibleireland.📚
I shall apply that chicken breast wisdom in hope, thank you