My Week in Food
I don’t think I cooked anything. I ate leftovers from work, and I made juices. I had a delicious halloumi taco from Bull St. Taco. I drank a Mexican Lollipop cider from Honest Abe Cider House. It is the best cider.
63 New Cookbooks Coming This Fall
For Epicurious, my friend Emily Farris has curated a list of cookbooks coming this fall.
Podcast
In the latest episode of my podcast, I talk about how vodka is the basic bitch of spirits and pumpkin spice season.
Vodka’s Neutral Days Are Over
Speaking of vodka, this article from Seven Fifty talks about vodka innovation.
Vodka remains far and away the most consumed category of spirit in the United States. But although it accounts for one-third of all spirits sales (according to Nielsen)—with whiskey a distant second at 25 percent—vodka has been on a slow and steady decline for over a decade.
Craft vodka distillers are now focusing on the water and ingredient purity.
When White Sugar Won’t Do
Cathy Erway writes about alternatives to white sugar for Taste.
White Lotus and Sugar Baby
Recently I was guest on The Yummicoco Show, a podcast hosted by my friend Colette Prosper. (We talked about White Lotus, so there are spoilers). While we were recording, I noticed that she had a framed photo of Kara Walker’s Sugar Sphinx in her studio. This reminded me that I took photos of the exhibit as well. I took the photo below.