Blogroll

This is a list of the blogs and websites I keep close tabs on. Some are directly related to Eating Asturias. Some are similar sites covering other locations that serve as inspiration. Some are just interesting food blogs.

• Cooking With Gaul – Anny Gaul thinks deeply about the history and context of the food of North Africa from an outsider perspective. And she has a banging bibliography at Zotero.
• David Lebowitz – His love affair with Paris, food, and photography have been large, and obvious, influences on me.
• Early Modern Spanish History Notes – Scott K. Taylor sifts all the recent scholarship on early modern period Spain, so I don’t have to.
• Emily Contois – Food, identity, gender, and power in modern America. Quite possibly the most viciously trolled academic food blogger ever.
• Food Anthropology – The blog of the Society for the Anthropology of Food & Nutrition is jam packed with research and resources from the Food Studies section of the American Anthropology Association.
• Food Politics – Marion Nestle takes on corporate agriculture and the commercial food industry.
• Food Rant – Ken Albala is one of the most important voices in food studies. He literally wrote the book on it…
• Jewish Viennese Food – Nino Shaye Weiss’ amazingly well footnoted food blog about the Jewish culinary traditions of Vienna
• Mónica R. Goya – Lest I take myself too seriously, let me introduce you to the original English language chronicler of Asturian food culture.
• Pass the Flamingo – Andrew Coletti started with a blog of amazing ancient recipes, and branched out into a food history YouTube series and what seems like a thousand other projects.
• Petit Propos Culinaires – Tom Jaine’s continuation of the late Alan Davidson’s journal of food studies, now blessedly available in digitized form from 1979 to present.
• Rachel Lauden – A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics. Her Getting Started in Food History pushed me to actually start.
• The Recipe Project - Half blog, half OpenAcess journal focused on critical study of recipes through history.
• Restaurant-ing through history – Jan Whitaker is the standard bearer for restaurant history as a subject, and feeds my ephemera hunger with a never ending supply of menus and stories.
• American Culinary History – Beyond the Reading Room – University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center blogs about the history of food and eating in America through the lens of their culinary book collection.
• Blind Pig & The Acorn – Tipper teaches Appalachian Cooking Classes at The John C. Campbell Folk School and writes the most impressive blog about Appalachian culture I have ever seen.
• Santina- The Society for the Analysis of cultural Topics and linguistic Identities N'Asturies provides a newsletter and conference to keep those studying Asturias in touch.

There are also a number of local blogs about Asturias (or localities in Asturias) that have been invaluable to me.

• Asturgeographic – an almost wordless blog chronicling the human geography of Asturias through excellent photography.
• Belén Menéndez Solar – A close investigation of Hórreos and Paneras in Amieva conceyo
• El blog de “Acebedo” – Juan José Menédez Fernandez chronicles both the history and the present activities of Mieres conceyo.
• Caldones, Vegha y Valle de Ranón – Lorenzo Linares Fernández and Alejandro Muñiz blog about growing heirloom apples, walking through Sariego conceyo, and going “back to the land”.
• Caleyando con Cienfuegos – An exhaustive catalog of hiking routes in Asturias, all minutely photographed and discussed.
• Casonas de Indianos – A photographic inventory of the enormous houses the returning Asturians built once they made their fortunes overseas.
• Club Xeitu – Dedicated to the cultural, architectural, anthropological, archaeological, artistic, ethnographic, linguistic and natural heritage of the western mountains of Asturias.
• Cronista Oficial Concejo de Riosa – The official blog of Jose Luis Cabo Sariego, the historian for the conceyo of Riosa
• Dendecagüelu – Luis Javier del Valle Vega has been writing about Asturian gastronomy since 2011.
• Les Fartures – “The Eaters” The original independent restaurant reviewers in Asturias.
• Flores y Paisajes de Asturias – Ignacio is obsessed with the flora of Asturias, which he has been diligently cataloging through amazing photography since 2013.
• El Gijón que me gusta – Gres catalogs the architectural history of Gijón
• Historia y Patrimonio de Riosa – Jose Luis Cabo Sariego, the historian for the conceyo of Riosa – but not in his official capacity.
• Hórreos y paneras de Asturias – I really like hórreos, so there are plenty of blogs on this list dedicated to preserving images of these granaries.
• Memoria del bosque – Ignacio Abella writes poetically about the trees and forests of Asturias.
• La Nuestra Tierra – A David Graeber quoting group blog covering the neighboring territory of León. Well researched, well documented, well written.
• Patrimonio Industrial Arquitectónico – Not solely focused on Asturias, but given the centrality of Asturian mining and manufacturing to Spain’s industrial history, much of this photo blog is about the area.
• Pindio Pindio – Victor Manuel chronicles a life in topology. A true student of the mountains.
• El rincón del entomólogo – Josep publishes photo essays following the field and back roads of Asturias.
• Xuliocs – The website of Julio Concepción Suárez, a high school history teacher who dives deep into the past and present of Lena conceyo. He also maintains an amazing etymological dictionary of Asturian place names.