This is just the quick-find version of the reading lists so they’re altogether in one place. Some books, some cookbooks, podcasts, various articles and even a television show or two.
School of Artisan Food Lectures (a reading list of sorts)
9th February 2016
For our love of cookbook stores (Eater)
The Gilmore Girls revival and the Gilmore Girls diet
Sally Ride in conversation with Gloria Steinem (Brainpickings)
Rising food prices in South Africa (Times Live)
Pistachio mille feuille (Gourmet Traveller)
Cookbook clubs (Serious Eats)
Moon Dust: In Search of the Men who Fell to Earth by Andrew Smith
Adorable Japanese animals
Wholemeal apple cake (The Guardian)
Advice to aspiring writers (video via Brainpickings)
And in case this list isn’t enough, a list on Journal Club
2nd February 2016
Tim Ferriss’s podcast – particularly those interviews with Amanda Palmer, Maria Popova and Alain de Botton
How Proust can change your life by Alain de Botton
The Holocaust and the New York Times (Aeon)
Teaching children to eat well whilst on a budget (The Atlantic)
The hunger mood (Aeon)
Taco Torte (Smitten Kitchen)
Squash, fennel and Taleggio lasagne (The Telegraph)
The reality of everyday cooking (The Independent)
Chinese pork loin and blood orange sorbet (The Guardian)
Women in professional kitchens (Eater)
26th January 2016
Banoffee pies (Delicious magazine)
Pizza at Yale (Saveur)
Cassoulet (The NYT)
Health foods and immunity (The Guardian)
Pleasure and acquiring taste (The Conversation)
Feeding paying customers in your home (The Guardian)
Work-life balance, finding the well lived life (TED)
Eating right can save the world (Outside)
‘I have this kitchen’ (Rachel Roddy)
Garden Spells and Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
19th January 2016
The land where lemons grow by Helena Attlee
Sausage Rolls (The Little Library Cafe blog)
Children arriving at school hungry (The Guardian)
The problem with school lunch (The NYT)
Tin Pot Creamery (Life & Thyme)
Applesauce Cake (Orangette)
Lena Dunham’s Women of the Hour (podcast)
The Tree Farm (Granta)
Cooked (Netflix)
Working at McDonalds (Medium)
The worlds most famous butcher (Lucky Peach)
Nigel Slater’s marmalade (The Guardian)
12th January 2016
The history of the croissant (Lucky Peach)
Rachel Roddy’s pasta and potatoes (The Guardian)
The Smell of Loss (NYT)
Jacques Pépin’s Food Memories (NYT)
Kylee Newton’s preserved quince tarte tatin (The Guardian Cook)
On Esoteric Fruit (Orangette)
Sky readers (Aeon)
Erica Berry: The Instafam’s Table (Guernica)
Snickers Flapjacks (The Little Loaf)
5th January 2016
The disease of being busy (On Being)
Chicken chili (Smitten Kitchen)
On writing and restaurant labor (Public Books)
Agromafia (CBS News)
Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
The man who exposed the lie of the war on drugs (The Guardian)
Roberto Saviano: My life under armed guard (The Guardian)
No diet, no detox: how to relearn the art of eating (The Guardian)
Marcella Hazan and her namesake bean (NYT)
Beared men in kimonos calendar (Timeout London)
22nd December 2015
Top 10 Restaurant Dishes of 2015 (The NYT)
$10 food vouchers for farmers markets (Civil Eats)
Eat (and ski) the Dolomites (Saveur)
Judith Jones (Eater)
Browniest cookies (Smitten Kitchen)
80 Books No Woman Should Read (Literary Hub)
Pleasures of the Literary Meal (The New Yorker)
A Late Dinner by Paul Richardson
14th December 2015
In Praise of Ugly Food (Serious Eats)
The Importance of Ugly Fruit (Lucky Peach)
The Ugly Fruit and Veg Campaign
Jamie Oliver and misshapen fruits and veg (The Guardian)
Honey Fences (Edible Geography)
Cultural messages and eating disorders (NPR)
Neighbourhood restaurant, Birch (The Guardian)
Gingerbread houses to end all gingerbread houses (Eater)
7th December 2015
The myth of easy cooking (The Atlantic)
In Translation (The New Yorker)
A Guide to Sinterklaas (Lucky Peach)
World Cookie Map (Food52)
Ibérico ham and China (The NYT)
The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas
The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
Kitchen Encounters (The Guardian)
26th November 2015
The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
Noncommunication in modern times (Brainpickings)
La comida des los cocineros (Feet in Two Worlds)
Palermo (Lodestars Anthology)
The Language of Food: Writing Workshop
Cultivating Failure (The Atlantic)
A new crop of school gardens (LA Times)
The agony and the eggstacy (The New Yorker)
Gingerbread cake with cookie butter frosting (BBC Good Food magazine)
Fern Varrow in pictures (The Guardian)
Quince (Food & Travel)
22nd November 2015
The First Thanksgiving (Lucky Peach)
The Thanksgiving Spectacular (Bon Appétit podcast)
Thansgiving Desserts (Bon Appétit)
Julia Child’s Thanksgiving (The New York Times)
American chefs in London on Thanksgiving dishes (The Guardian)
What is healthy eating? (The Guardian)
Art and food (The NYT)
The lost faces of Lublin (The FT)
11th November 2015
Roasted sweet and sour pumpkin (Rachel Roddy)
Choosing between a career and family. (Sigh.) (The Guardian)
The Limiting Mythology of Success (Brainpickings)
Why Women Can’t Have it ALL (Freakonomics)
The Queen’s of Modern Baking (Bon Appétit podcast)
A Bread Baker’s Guide to Flours (Lucky Peach)
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David
The Food52 podcast
10th November 2015
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Are you in a Jane Austen novel? It is always good to know.
Applesauce Cake (Orangette)
Applesauce (Zuni Cafe Cookbook via Orangette)
Perfect toasted cheese (The Guardian)
Sloe gin, plum and almond cake (The Telegraph)
3rd November 2015
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (audiobook)
Nigella Lawson: My Life in Food (The Observer)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Broccoli ripassati (The Guardian)
Beloved dog (Brainpickings)
27th October 2015
So You Want to Write a Food Blog (The New Yorker)
Couple’s First Dinner Party, Serves Six (also The New Yorker)
Exxon’s climate lie (The Guardian)
Lost cat (Brainpickings)
Appetite for Life by Noel Riley Fitch
A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III by Nigel Slater
Because everyone needs a Julia mash-up in their lives
8th October 2015
The Camino by Shirley Maclaine
Mastering Simplicity (chocolate souffles)
15th September 2015
Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Breakfast Bible by Seb Emina and Malcolm Eggs
How to write a bestselling cookery book (The Guardian)
30th August 2015
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
NYPL podcast – Zadie Smith (of On Beauty) talking to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah) about race and writing.
Jerusalem By Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamini
Those Farady Girls by Monica McInerney
23rd August 2015
The lunchtime revolution at a school for children with autism (The Guardian)
From fork to fork: five cooks and their kitchen gardens (The Guardian)
Sicily and Rome: two journeys, two kitchens by Rachel Roddy (FT magazine)
The Moth on the Power of Storytelling via The New York Public Library podcast.
Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett
My Cool Allotment by Lia Leendertz
16th August 2015
How to Feed Your Friends with Relish by Joanna Weinberg
A Taste of Relais and Chateaux: 97 Recipes from Some of the Finest Chefs in the UK and Ireland
Desserts: A Lifelong Passion by Michel Roux.
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
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