Food for thought #76

A weekly roundup for hungry readers📚

Reading

• On Instagram, recipe-sharing automation is here to stay: Recipe- and link-sharing chatbots are flourishing – and making comment sections more transactional than ever

• They’re gentle. They’re seasonal. They’re soft boy cooks.

• Ireland’s last wild fish smoker is a 69-year-old woman dedicated to preserving the ancient ways

• Ina Garten on Calvin Tomkins’s profile of Julia Child

• Chefs on the films that always make them hungry

• Food as first language: Mike Curato on the validation of learning to cook Filipino food

• ‘The respect of being good’: meet hospitality’s gurus

• Maybe you need a bibliotherapist

• British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked

Listening

• Some of my Blasta Books authors have put together some excellent funky beats in Spotify playlists, perfect for summer vibes.

• Live from the Ballymaloe Festival of Food: Ireland’s modern farmers

Scrolling

• Check out this genius hack from

  Russell & Patrick
  for creating a shopping list on your phone straight from a book
  gastrogays

  

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• The holy trinity

newyorkercartoons

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• ’Tis the season

  9beanrowsbooks

  

  A post shared by @9beanrowsbooks

• Did you know that Bread 41 gives out free sourdough starter – white or whole grain – to anyone who brings their own container? Just swing by the Pearse Street bakery in Dublin and ask one of the front-of-house team to sort you out!

• Move over, butter yellow - dill green is set to be this summer’s trendiest colour

• We’ve been cutting potatoes all wrong! The Spanish have a genius potato prep trick you need to try: it’s called a cascada.

Word of the week

odetogermanwords

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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.📚