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Something I can’t do today, with my backache

Hi there!

In Italy, we’re living in a new COVID wave. And I had a killer temperature I couldn’t work on this issue as I intended.

That’s why it’s late, but at least it is still Tuesday, isn’t it?

Piero

Photograph: Avishek Das/Sopa Images/Shutterstock. A devotee prepares for the Hindu festival of Annakut at the Naba Brindaban temple. Devotees mark the festival, which is also known as Govardhan Puja, by offering vegetarian food to Lord Krishna as a sign of gratitude for saving them from floods.

THE BEST QUOTE

Virginia Woolf, and one of her sexiest lines (actually in Jacob's Room she wrote “Language is wine upon his lips”).

THE MISSING INGREDIENT

CAMEL MILK AND PICKLE KETCHUP

Secret Breakfast loves food predictions so much that I wrote an ebook about that, last year (it’s free, you can download it).

Now it’s time for other people’s predictions about food in 2024. Axios has made enough for us to fantasize about for months: camel milk, protein coffee, Dalgona coffee, pickle ketchup, Bulgogi, bibimbap, Korean egg drop breakfast sandwiches (★recipe), and “creste di gallo” pasta (which I don’t really trust because it has the same name as the genital wart).

What’s your prediction?

THE BOOK

Core, Sweet, and Tears

★★★★☆

If Mark Kurlansky is not my soulmate, please tell me who could be. He wrote books about cod and salt, and now - bam - onions! As Julia Child once said, “It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions”. And it’s harder imagining something some good meal without onions.

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food by Mark Kurlansky
Shortplot: 🧅 🧅 🧅 🧅

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RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER

This is the space where I share some food (un)related stuff of my week

 🍪Bravo NY Times: 7 Brilliant Cookies to Keep Your Holidays Bright (★recipes) 🐟 Lohikeitto is the Finnish Salmon Soup You’d Love (★recipe) 🍎Strudel Dough As It Should Be 🥚4 Levels of Deviled Eggs 👉🏻Don’t Send Compliments to the Chef and Other New Rules of Dining Out in 2023 (paywalled) 🥤Why Diet Coke got so expensive 🍫Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together grow ~60% of the cocoa on Earth, are both expecting their lowest yields in years 🎁The best gifts you can eat

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FOOD FOR LATER

The takeout: “AI will never replace human interaction at high-end restaurants, but it can enable the people who run those restaurants to spend more time with guests”.

Last week's most clicked link was the 64 Recipes From the Best Cookbooks of 2023, which was my favorite too. And that's all for today.