Summer perfection—peach and cucumber salad
Welcome back to Eat the Web, the intermittent collection of links that have caught my eye. I often post them piecemeal to twitter, but it’s nice to have them in one place. Here are some choice links from this summer:
My, how you’ve changed, watermelon [Vox]
Delicious grilled cheese sandwiches in SF at B. on the Go [SF Chronicle]
Spicy food might help you live longer [SciAm]
Quick ricotta gnocchi that look fabulous, and easy to make [Serious Eats]
Astoria’s “cathedral to smoked meats”—Muncan Food Corp—gets some love (good, traditional cured meats are here in abundance) [VV]
Easy summer ceviche [Latina]
Warming water in the Columbia river are causing sockeye salmon to die in large numbers [Digital Journal]
NYC Honey Week returns this September [NYC Honey Week]
One of NYC’s oldest German butchers, Schaller & Weber, opens a little sausage bar [DNAinfo]
This Peruvian gazpacho looks wonderful! The half avocado is particularly appealing. [Eating Free]
I recently came back from a lovely vacation in sunny San Diego. I ate a lot of tasty food, saw the sights, and spent time with family celebrating the wedding of my cousin. Here’s a shot from the beach out into the Pacific Ocean. It was perfect.