Thursday, October 08, 2009
Gourmet delight from Boston
Boston's Christopher Kimball isn’t quite dancing on the grave of Gourmet magazine. More like kicking the publishing industry’s advertising business model when it’s down. … He also gets in a few kicks at the Internet and Twitterers etc. He’ll probably get some grief for daring to say some publishing elites are necessary. But think about it: Do you want to watch randomly selected Internet posters/bloggers playing NFL games on Sunday afternoons? Or do you want to watch the real thing? …
OK, I just Googled “broccoli casserole,’’ as Kimball suggested, and … and Paula Dean’s recipe came up first. Another kick! …
I also looked up the Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, and its successor, American Cookery. Interesting.
BTW: Hub Blog gets my own kick out of theories about why American cooking has historically sucked over the years (industrialization etc.). But has anyone stopped to think it might have to do with the nation being founded by the descendants of Europe’s worst cooks, i.e. the English? That the English were followed to America by the world’s second and third worst cooks, i.e. the Irish and Germans? C’mon. Durgin Park didn’t spring from nowhere. …
P.S. -- What the hell is Mint Tinkle? Here it is.
Boston's Christopher Kimball isn’t quite dancing on the grave of Gourmet magazine. More like kicking the publishing industry’s advertising business model when it’s down. … He also gets in a few kicks at the Internet and Twitterers etc. He’ll probably get some grief for daring to say some publishing elites are necessary. But think about it: Do you want to watch randomly selected Internet posters/bloggers playing NFL games on Sunday afternoons? Or do you want to watch the real thing? …
OK, I just Googled “broccoli casserole,’’ as Kimball suggested, and … and Paula Dean’s recipe came up first. Another kick! …
I also looked up the Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics, and its successor, American Cookery. Interesting.
BTW: Hub Blog gets my own kick out of theories about why American cooking has historically sucked over the years (industrialization etc.). But has anyone stopped to think it might have to do with the nation being founded by the descendants of Europe’s worst cooks, i.e. the English? That the English were followed to America by the world’s second and third worst cooks, i.e. the Irish and Germans? C’mon. Durgin Park didn’t spring from nowhere. …
P.S. -- What the hell is Mint Tinkle? Here it is.
