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Your Essential Food Books? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We have an early edition of this on the shelf in our kitchen; yes, it's terrific.

Your Essential Food Books? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool! Gonna check those out, then. Thanks.

Your Essential Food Books? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@KRAW@[email protected], It's a deep dive, pretty rewarding. The basic food science, history, and a lot of things to try. Really nice alongside the NOMA Guide, actually.

I've grown many batches of koji (it gets easier as you learn more about how it behaves), but my one foray into store-bought stuff wasn't too bad — it seemed a bit dry, but that's easily enough remedied.

Your Essential Food Books? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, love Ottolenghi — he had a nice piece in NYT recently, referencing Segnit, actually. I need to find a copy of the Sharma, sounds like.

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Your Essential Food Books? (beehaw.org)
 

For those of you with a cooking/food writing/food science collection, what's indispensable? What do you currently find yourself returning to again and again?

For me, Nikki Segnit's "Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium' and Flavor Thesaurus: More Flavors are both in there, along with The Noma Guide to Fermentation, Koji Alchemy, and *Burma: Rivers of Flavor." Oh, and Sercarz's *Spice Companion."

For food writing, I'm always happy to dip into some M.F.K. Fisher.

What are you self-hosting? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not a ton of stuff, but I'm currently looking at some more, thanks to this thread.

At home:

  • Open Media Vault on an RPi 4, with some containers, namely:
    • qBittorrent
    • PhotoPrism (not especially functional, more a proof-of-concept)
    • mariadb
  • PiHole on an RPi 3
  • Volumio on RPi3s + DAC (x2)

On a Singapore-based VPS:

  • Nextcloud