Welcome to the newest version of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly publication, Hey there, it’s Amanda, filled with meals, journey, and purchasing ideas, Food52 doings, and different issues that catch her eye. Get impressed—enroll right here for her emails.
August is a bizarre month at Food52. It’s tomato season, which implies we’re locked and loaded to maximise nightshade consumption (this 12 months we’re doing a Tomato-thon; don’t miss the fried tomato sandwiches. Nevertheless it’s additionally the start of our vacation freight practice. Merchandise from all around the rattling world begin exhibiting up on the workplace, our photograph studios go into overdrive, and Jojo, our GM, begins taking part in Andy Williams’ “It is the Most Great Time of the Yr” at planning conferences to get everybody within the temper.
Within the coming months, I’ll share my bets for vacation greatest sellers, however within the meantime, listed here are a few objects I’d order earlier than they promote out:
- This Nineteen Twenties-style Italian glassware, solely out there via us.
- These bread baskets made with wooden pulp and manufactured proper right here in Brooklyn!
- These assorted coloured tumblers. Our consumers nudged me to inform you about this model’s different glassware however I like the feel of this set. Plus, it’s my publication. I’ll do no matter I really feel like I wanna do, gosh! (I’ll ship a set of the tumblers to the primary one who emails me the film reference: [email protected].)
Anyway, let’s get again to tomatoes, corn, and stone fruits. César did a extremely cool factor with a Triple-Burnt Corn Basque cheesecake by infusing the cream with charred corn kernels. And Nea paired a peach-and-charred-corn salsa with shrimp tacos.
Baking Queen Dorie Greenspan and farmer-turned-chef Abra Berens shall be answering member questions for our upcoming Cookbook Membership AMAs. Signal on up right here.
A few weeks in the past, I shared my publication studying record and requested for yours. Listed below are a number of the responses:
From Maggie:
- I actually love Restaurant Dropout, which accompanies Zoe Barrie’s TikTok collection—good ingredient prep for per week’s price of dinners that all the time look actually good and recent.
- I all the time benefit from the deep dives on Anne Helen Petersen’s Tradition Research, and I like studying about upcoming cookbooks on Stained Web page Information by Paula Forbes.
- Gotta throw in a plug for my very own new publication as nicely—What To Drink shares enjoyable cocktail (and booze-free) recipes and ideas, plus beer, wine, and books I like to recommend.
From Paul:
I haven’t got three recs price sharing, however I usually flip to this meals publication for amusing. I feel you may discover it nicely written and maybe a bit…ridiculous. (And Paul is true—I adore it.)
From Stephanie:
From Patti:
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
From Selinda:
Wondercade by Neil Patrick Harris – A world of meals, drinks, leisure, and magic
We’ve been experimenting with our product images, and I wished you to be the primary to see. Let me know when you have any suggestions at [email protected].
Merry tomato season!
Amanda
Earlier than beginning Food52 with Merrill, I used to be a meals author and editor on the New York Instances. I’ve written a number of books, together with “Cooking for Mr. Latte” and “The Important New York Instances Cookbook.” I performed myself in “Julie & Julia” — hope you did not blink, or you will have missed the scene! I stay in Brooklyn with my husband, Tad, and twins, Walker and Addison.
