New Yorker Food Issue

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Every article in this issue is so fantastic and hunger inducing! Gluttony rulez. Also I learned some great pasta-cooking trix.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago)

anything vegan?

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I've only read the Malcolm Gladwell article about ketchup so far, but it was pretty cool, if a little abrupt at the end. I've already referenced umami (the fifth taste) on another thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago)

And even though the experts decide that Heinz 57 has a perfect combination of taste sensations working in unison, how awesome does this dude's red pepper/garlic/chunky tomatoes/maple syrup/fresh basil ketchup sound?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago)

why does the new yorker produce a food issue when im in the middle of the south beach diet phase 1? why? why?

Actually i haven't got past talk of the town yet. is it packed with nutritious goodies?

― Anthony (Plato Guy), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I've barely had time to crack it open, but the Jim Harrison piece about the 37-course lunch fascinated and repelled, simultaneously.

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah that one was awesome. i read it while eating a fantastic one course but enormous chinese meal with preserved vegetables and beef strips in a carmelized black bean sauce.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago)

the ketchup article was awesome, and the futurist food article made me sick.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

oooh. maybe i'll pick this up from a newsstand today!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago)

i loved the futurist article, we need to be me more radical with our food.
she was totally wimpy too, not eating it as it was intended.

― anthony, Friday, 3 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I'd read parts of the futurist cookbook before. She shoulda reproduced more text from it!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

ahhhh i'm SO EXCITED TO READ THIS!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I called my friend who loves to cook and she said she had already read it cover to cover!

Seriously this is the best New Yorker theme issue I can remember.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 4 September 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago)

Something about food just rewards and encourages great writing.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 4 September 2004 03:25 (twenty years ago)

I really don't want to have to wait 3 weeks to pay A$12 for this!

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 4 September 2004 08:14 (twenty years ago)

can we read any of these articles on-line?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 4 September 2004 08:47 (twenty years ago)

i'm so psyched

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Omigosh, it made me want to eat everything.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

my roomie who i only get along ok with cooked some fantastic seafood pasta tonight and i cooked a lovely garlic and basil cream sauce last night too, inspired by this issue. absolutely not enough paens to chinese cuisine however.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:02 (twenty years ago)

37 course lunch? there's something to aspire to

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Umami! It makes me believe we know next to nuttin about taste (the science).
The big discussion at work today was how Kool-Aid could cash in on umami: Mushroom Kool-Aid? MSG falvor?

― Abbitt, Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Umami's not that new a deal though is it?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 5 September 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago)

can we read any of these articles on-line?

you could 2 days ago, but they seem to have removed them now (new issue out). i strongly suggest nipping into borders and buying a copy; i've only read the pasta and ketchup articles so far, but they easily justify the 4 quid.

― toby (tsg20), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago)

jones gave me a copy, i am going to read it today! thx jones!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:23 (twenty years ago)

The article on the Milanese restaurant that serves Futurist cuisine has given me all sorts of really, really bad ideas

― TOMBOT, Monday, 6 September 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I loved how Malcolm Gladwell's piece went off on tangents that helped the article, but that were mainly there because he couldn't resist it. And how he includes the moment that he decided to write the article: he must have run into the World's Best Ketchup guy at Zabar's and thought, "Huh. Ketchup. There's an article." I also dug the way he sets up the punchline ("I guess ketchup is ketchup") with that earlier quote from Moskowitz about how the Byzantine Empire is very Byzantine.

That article had high amplitude.

I liked the futurist article, skimmed Buford's piece on pasta, and yeah, the article about the 37-course meal was equally compelling and repulsive, by design. Great stuff.

― savetherobot, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:17 (twenty years ago)

By the way, whenever I want to dig up a New Yorker article online, I just try Googling it - you can usually at least get a cached version of most of their articles.

― savetherobot, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago)

that is a very good idea!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago)

so we bought it last night, and I've been saving the ketchup article for last. I'm halfway throught the pasta article and so far so good, like it a lot, but I really took agin the bloke whho wrote the 37 course meal thing, he is insufferable, it was more a pi$$ing contest than an article.

favourite article so far is either the indian food one where the Mother takes the photo at the end, or the article where the father makes the best soup ever.

In themain though there seem to be too many words iin the bigger articles and nbot enough of them about food.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 07:57 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

goddammit just when I let my subscription run out 'cause I'm broke (I plan to re-up in a few months) they come out with another food issue?

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:49 (sixteen years ago)

is that this week?? awesome. i havent got mine yet. food issues are my favourite

― t_g, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 11:55 (sixteen years ago)

started reading last nite, so far not one of the better ones imho. calvin trillin on (stifles yawn) texas BBQ

― m coleman, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 13:13 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

new one out

― just sayin, Monday, 16 November 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago)

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