A New Kind of Cookbook
It’s the anti-Fannie Farmer, according to the Wall Street Journal (“A Shift to Recipe-less Cooking“). It seems Ms. Farmer took the joy out of cooking by obsessing over exact measurements.
The article focuses on Cooking Beyond Measure, a cookbook from a brand-new Portland, OR publisher, 76 Ave Press (this is their first book; the next one will be Hippie Kitchen). It was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, but clearly by an FF type;
This odd recipe collection…feels more like a conversation with a quirky cooking enthusiast than a full-fledged cookbook. Instead of using the traditional recipe format-lists of ingredients followed by detailed instructions on what to do with them- [it] relies on “recipe notes”…
WorldCat shows no libraries owning it.
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The second book in this trend is coming this fall, written by well-known cookbook editor Judith Jones (she worked with Julia Child and published her own memoir last year, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food)
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April 8th, 2009 at 10:39 am
worldcat shows all of the big Pac NW libraries owning it. We’ve had it for months.