Last week's email (not signed up yet? click here) put forth a short list of songs from my "cooking" playlist, and asked readers to send in some of their favorite songs for cooking.
For me, music for cooking means beats that get hot pads high-fiving and tunes that make the hips wiggle between stirring the risotto. Not every song needs to have a quick tempo, but if it's slower, it'd better have a lilt keep my chef's knife rhythmically slicing an onion, gently scrubbing potatoes, or at least have a food theme.
This was my list:
Rumba Como Quiera (Los Zafiros)
Ship Out On the Sea (The Be Good Tanyas)
Alpha Beta Gaga (Air)
Mi Swing Es Tropical (Nickodemus & Quantic featuring Tempo)
Aye Mama (Chief Osita Stephen Osadebe)
Cook of the House (Wings)
Aaj Mera Jee Kardaa (DJ BNX & Giraud Anthony - from Monsoon Wedding)
I Feel It All (Fiest)
Wadjo (Ex-Centric Sound System)
Cyrandeiro (Cyro Baptista)
Dawn of the Dead (Does It Offend You, Yeah?)
Lake Michigan (Rogue Wave)
Readers send in dozens, many of which I'd never heard of. Here's a sampling:
Rae likes The Ditty Bops and suggests these three for cooking:
Sister Kate
Ooh La La
Fish To Fry
Miranda's picks:
Victor Jara's Hands (Calexico)
You Can Make It If You Try (Sly & The Family Stone)
Kitchen by The Soft Pink Truth
Robin sent us these:
God Made Woman (The Burns Sisters)
Landslide (Dixie Chicks)
Landslide (Stevie Nicks)
100 years (Five For Fighting)
Maria likes the 80s for cooking:
Don't Stop Believin' (Journey)
True (Spandau Ballet)
Shine a Little Love (ELO)
More to come next week. In the meantime, send me your three favorite tunes for cooking.
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The B-52's have lots of GREAT cooking music:
"Cake"
"Rock Lobster"
"Butterbean"
"Quiche Lorraine"
"Housework" (ok, not cooking, but related)
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I LOVE cooking to Nightmares on Wax. They are so groovy and epic and put me in this awesome zen state while I'm choppin up my onions.
And also, a delight that I've inherited from my mother: the Buddha Bar compilation cds. They don't fall into my typical musical tastes--think punk and early 90's rock--but for someone who cooks a lot of ethnic dishes, it certainly works thematically!
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I like listening to stories - Prairie Home Companion or This American Life makes my kitchen feel cozy.
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