March 11, 2011, 11:13 am What We’re Reading
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A collection of links by the reporters and editors of The Times’s Dining section.
YouTube: Jacques Pepin on how to make omelets. Even if you know how to make an omelet, it’s worth a gander. — Sam Sifton
Deutsche Welle: What appears to be Europe’s first all-vegan supermarket has opened in Dortmund, Germany. — Jeff Gordinier
Los Angeles Times: The Altadena urban-homesteading movement keeps extending roots in its rich alluvial soil. Milking goats. Fruit-swapping. Olive pickling. A farmers’ market stocked with urban-raised provender. Rampant hyper-localism, dude. — Glenn Collins
Vanity Fair: The delicate British art of restaurant evisceration, in Vanity Fair this month. (Never mind that the critic had all the wrong dishes.) — Julia Moskin
The Maremma Guide: Handy glossary of choice Italian wine terms. — Eric Asimov
The Guardian: Will the increase in foraging end up damaging the environment and the sustainability of wild foods? — Nick Fox
Winfield Daily Courier: Creekstone Farms confirms a seven-ton recall of its ground beef. They say they are “working closely” with customers to retrieve the tainted meat. — Sam Sifton
Farmington Daily Times: A woman in New Mexico sues a Chili’s restaurant after taking a bite of mashed potatoes and reportedly having her tongue stabbed by a needle. — Jeff Gordinier
Chicago Tribune: A food lover’s guide to St. Patrick’s Day.
— Samantha Storey
Boston Phoenix: “Lamb with mascarpone. Lamb with blood oranges and dates. Lamb hot dogs. Lamb potato chips. Lamb-neck ravioli. Lamb with hominy. Lamb with pistachio vinaigrette. Lamb with kimchi,” the writer Eugenia Williamson wrote, as she slipped into mondo-carnivore mode at an event called Lamb Jam. — Jeff Gordinier
Time Out New York: Restaurants where you can recreate the album cover of “Beggars Banquet” by tearing into an epic, family-style feast. — Jeff Gordinier
Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles chefs Ludo Lefebvre and Michael Voltaggio react to a New York Times profile of Sam Talbot, with whom they were linked in a paragraph about “a new breed of celebrity chefs who have coasted into culinary fame.” — Sam Sifton
Baltimore Sun: Agents move against charter boats taking bass from federal waters off Virginia Beach, seizing phones and navigation equipment. (If they do that in the New York Bight, they’ll have a big, big pile of phones and navigation equipment.) — Sam Sifton
Wine Virtuosity: Niklas Jorgensen leads a tour through the indigenous grapes of Sicily. — Eric Asimov
James Beard Foundation (pdf): The annual America’s Classics, including Le Veau d’Or, are announced. –Nick Fox
The Wall Street Journal: The library of the late Alan Davidson, the creator of the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery and the “Oxford Companion to Food,” is being auctioned. He had about 4,000 food-related
books. –Nick Fox
Village Voice: They pick the 10 best in-store dining rooms. — Nick Fox
Wired: More on the miracle berry from the chef Homaro Cantu at the 2011 TED conference. He claims he’ll have a full “miracle berry” menu at his upcoming Chicago restaurant. — Julia Moskin
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