Dec 31, 2009
Dec 23, 2009
Dec 11, 2009
Looks Good: Brown Butter Brown Sugar Shorties
Courtesy Smitten Kitchen.One of my new favorites, these cookies are easy to make and the process of browning butter creates a wonderful aroma.
Ingredients
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar (preferably dark)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt (flaky salt would be great in these)
Demerara sugar (Sugar in the Raw) or sanding sugar for rolling (optional)
Go to Smitten Kitchen for instructions.
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter
1/2 cup packed brown sugar (preferably dark)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt (flaky salt would be great in these)
Demerara sugar (Sugar in the Raw) or sanding sugar for rolling (optional)
Go to Smitten Kitchen for instructions.
Dec 10, 2009
Eye Candy: Martin Wong
Martin Wong, Stanton Near Forsyth, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 64 in. Courtesy P.P.O.W. Gallery.Martin Wong: Everything Must Go is on view at P.P.O.W. Gallery through January 30. A panel discussion (tentatively) based upon the themes of secret language in Wong's work will be hosted by the NYU Steinhardt School of Art and Arts Professions on January 26.
Dec 9, 2009
Becoming a Community Chef: Pumpkin Walnut Bread
Photo: N. Caruth.My first season as a Community Chef ended with a holiday potluck at the Just Food office. For this, I baked Pumpkin Walnut Bread. Because I substituted one cup of all-purpose flour for whole wheat flour (which is more dense), baking time for two small loaves was 40-45 minutes as opposed to the recommended 25-30. If you want to kick this bread up a notch, I recommend slices warmed or toasted and topped with Honey Butter.
The end of this year's outdoor cooking season marks a shift in the title of this series: going forward it will be called Community Cooking. The series will continue to focus on recipes and food adventures related to my work as a Community Chef, as well as current issues in food politics.
The end of this year's outdoor cooking season marks a shift in the title of this series: going forward it will be called Community Cooking. The series will continue to focus on recipes and food adventures related to my work as a Community Chef, as well as current issues in food politics.
Ingredients
1 3/4 cup (1 15 oz. can) pureed pumpkin
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 egg
1/2 cup egg whites
2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup chopped walnuts
Recipe adapted from The Fresh Loaf; go to their website for instructions.
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 egg
1/2 cup egg whites
2 cups all-purpose unbleached flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup chopped walnuts
Recipe adapted from The Fresh Loaf; go to their website for instructions.
Dec 7, 2009
A Mixed Bag: The Wishlist Edition
Denyse Thomasos, Lollipop Nation, 2009. 40 x 54 in. Courtesy Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.In case you were wondering, here's a few things things I'd like to have or receive this holiday season:
Lollipop Nation by Denyse Thomasos (one of many paintings in the artist's solo exhibition now on view at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc).
Cornucopia, a 3-D Printer that can store and cook food.
An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage.
Cool book jackets.
Prospect Park #2 by Joseph O. Holmes (on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through January 9).
Nayland Blake in a room...alone...where I can take advantage of his mind.
Gingerbread Pancakes with candied ginger.
A set of Busts by Eli Alba (on view at Black and White Gallery beginning December 10).
Pink Himalayan Salt.
Dutch Apple and other holiday pies from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (as proceeds go toward the fight against AIDS and homelessness).
Anonymous photographs and custom cookies.
Lollipop Nation by Denyse Thomasos (one of many paintings in the artist's solo exhibition now on view at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc).
Cornucopia, a 3-D Printer that can store and cook food.
An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage.
Cool book jackets.
Prospect Park #2 by Joseph O. Holmes (on view at Jen Bekman Gallery through January 9).
Nayland Blake in a room...alone...where I can take advantage of his mind.
Gingerbread Pancakes with candied ginger.
A set of Busts by Eli Alba (on view at Black and White Gallery beginning December 10).
Pink Himalayan Salt.
Dutch Apple and other holiday pies from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (as proceeds go toward the fight against AIDS and homelessness).
Anonymous photographs and custom cookies.
Dec 3, 2009
Gastro-Vision: Antidiets of the Avant-Garde
Daniel Spoerri, Eaten partly by: Visitors of the Biennale of Sydney 1979, 1978-79. Dinner debris: knives, forks, plates, bread, bottle, glasses, glued to a screenprinted tablecloth mounted on wood, overall 100 x 220 cm. Gift of the artist, 1979 NGA 1979.2341.A-B © Daniel Spoerri. Licensed by Pro Litteris, Zurich & VISCOPY, Australia.Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art -- a fascinating new text in food-art history -- is due out in January. Learn more about the book in my interview with author Cecilia Novero:
Read the entire piece on the Art21 blog.Nicole J. Caruth: How do you define “antidiet”? Is it synonymous with the rejection of “taste” in art (i.e. anti-taste) or related to the French idea of dégoût/disgust?
Cecilia Novero: Antidiet is not always dégoût–that would work with Dada but not with Futurism. Antidiet is meant in the sense of anti-art, without being a synonym of it. If diet is a set of regulations that orders ways of eating, table manners, etc., the anti-diet counters these “bourgeois” and “Western” rules. For example, the ways in which we take pleasure, appreciate what is considered/constructed as the beautiful, and especially the ways we “taste” art and thus stop thinking about inherited concepts of beauty. In the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde, anti-diet also refers to acquired notions of “progress,” hence traditional historicist approaches to art and civilization.
Dec 1, 2009
World Aids Day 2009
Hunter Reynolds, I'm in Love (Lipstick Drawing series), 2009. Courtesy Visual Aids.
Thirty-three million people are HIV positive; 22 million of them are in Africa. Worldwide, HIV/AIDS is the No. 1 killer of women.
Today is World Aids Day/Day With(out) Art:
Day Without Art began on December 1, 1989 as the national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. To make the public aware that AIDS can touch everyone, and inspire positive action, some 800 U.S. art and AIDS groups participated in the first Day Without Art, shutting down museums, sending staff to volunteer at AIDS services, or sponsoring special exhibitions of work about AIDS. Since then, Day With(out) Art has grown into a collaborative project in which an estimated 8,000 national and international museums, galleries, art centers, AIDS Service Organizations, libraries, high schools and colleges take part.
A number of art programs are taking place across New York City in conjunction with World Aids Day; visit the Visual Aids blog for more information.
Every year, the non-profit organization Visual Aids commissions contemporary artists to design broadsides; the works are used to raise awareness about AIDS and HIV prevention. This year's designs are a limited-edition tote bag by J. Morrison; a set of 10 business cards by Wu Ingrid Tsang; and the postcard pictured here by Hunter Reynolds. An AIDS activist and early member of ACT UP, Reynolds co-founded Art Positive--a group to fight homophobia and censorship in the arts--in 1989.
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