Jessica Carbone

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Food history & culture for hire. AMST Phd @Harvard. Contrib editor @saveurmag. Man ed @gastronomica. Former cookbook editor & museum geek; IG/🧵: @jessfscarbone

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Articles

This (Half) Latinx Cookbook Celebrates the Author’s Cultural In-Between

1 month ago | saveur.com | Jessica Carbone

By Jessica CarbonePublished on March 24, 2025This interview is brought to you by the SAVEUR Cookbook Club, our passionate community of food-loving readers from around the globe, celebrating our favorite authors and recipes. Join us as we cook through some of the latest cookbooks, and share your food pics and vids on social media with the hashtags #SAVEURCookbookClub and #EatTheWorld.
This (Half) Latinx Cookbook Celebrates the Author’s Cultural In-Between

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jessica Carbone

5 hours agoHomemaking, decorating, gardening, and entertaining have long been central to Black American culture, daily life, community building, and family wellness, anchored in Southern traditions. These practices surpass beautiful aesthetics, serving as a way to create warmth, openness, and comfort and …
11 Astonishing Food Facts From Irish Culinary History

1 month ago | saveur.com | Jessica Carbone

By Jessica CarbonePublished on March 3, 2025In Ireland, whether you’re sipping a Guinness, slicing into a ruby red blood sausage, or devouring any number of potato dishes (colcannon, boxty, chips, etc.), you’ll find plenty of clues to the richness of Ireland’s food heritage. Yet after reading Irish Food History: A Companion, published last September and edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman, I found much more to savor beyond the pint and potato.
20 Thai Recipes Full of All the Hot, Savory, Sour, Sweet Flavors We Love

2 months ago | msn.com | Jessica Carbone
20 Thai Recipes Full of All the Hot, Savory, Sour, Sweet Flavors We Love

2 months ago | seriouseats.com | Jessica Carbone

If you're fortunate enough to live in an area with access to a variety of great Thai food you know that it's way more than a generic plate of stir-fried rice noodles with a smattering of vegetables and nonspecific Asian-y sauce, labeled "Pad thai." Thai food is a complex blend of hot, spicy, salty, sour, sweet, smoky, herbaceous, and aromatic flavors that vary throughout different regions of Thailand.
I Still Make the Chocolate Cake From This Sexy 1976 Cookbook

2 months ago | saveur.com | Jessica Carbone

By Jessica CarbonePublished on February 12, 2025My first love affair with food was all about chocolate—in every form I could get my hands on. As a child, I usually didn’t stray far from the basics: my family and I would make Nestlé Toll House cookies or Ghirardelli Chocolate brownies, sugary sweet and reliably delicious treats designed to feed a crowd.
This Book Is an Essential Introduction to Plant-Based Cooking

Jan 23, 2025 | saveur.com | Jessica Carbone

By Jessica CarbonePublished on January 23, 2025This interview is brought to you by the SAVEUR Cookbook Club, our passionate community of food-loving readers from around the globe, celebrating our favorite authors and recipes. Join us as we cook through a new book every month, and share your food pics and vids on social media with the hashtags #SAVEURCookbookClub and #EatTheWorld. Whether or not you identify as vegan, there are plenty of reasons to explore plant-based cooking.
All the Holiday Cookies You Should Be Making This Year, According to Our Editors

Dec 13, 2024 | seriouseats.com | Jessica Carbone

What is December if not a month-long excuse to bake as many cookies as possible for your friends, family, and yourself? There are many classics to choose from: gingerbread, peanut butter blossoms, spritz cookies, and snickerdoodles galore. The question is: Which will you choose? Are you a fan of jammy cookies? Maybe spiced ones? Or is chocolate and peanut butter more your speed? If you're like our editors, you're probably looking forward to baking up a storm (looking at you, Genevieve).
Give the Gift of Great Food Writing This Holiday Season

Dec 6, 2024 | saveur.com | Jessica Carbone

By Jessica CarbonePublished on December 6, 2024Normally my beat at SAVEUR is cookbooks, and I have plenty of recommendations from new releases in 2024 for you to savor. However, this year’s crop of food-focused narratives—a vast array of compelling novels, investigative journalism, scholarship, personal essays, and memoirs—is just as worthy of celebration.
Chef Michael Mina Wants the World to Cook More Egyptian Food

Nov 19, 2024 | saveur.com | Jessica Carbone

By Jessica CarbonePublished on November 19, 2024This interview is brought to you by the SAVEUR Cookbook Club, our passionate community of food-loving readers from around the globe, celebrating our favorite authors and recipes. Join us as we cook through a new book every month, and share your food pics and vids on social media with the hashtags #SAVEURCookbookClub and #EatTheWorld.