This is totally logical! I'm just finding so many cookbooks lacking these days, and this is the only reason I can figure out: There's an urgency toward the presentation rather than the instruction. My favorite parts of cookbooks, too, are rarely recipes but the information surrounding recipes. In the Dean & DeLuca cookbook, there's so mu…
This is totally logical! I'm just finding so many cookbooks lacking these days, and this is the only reason I can figure out: There's an urgency toward the presentation rather than the instruction. My favorite parts of cookbooks, too, are rarely recipes but the information surrounding recipes. In the Dean & DeLuca cookbook, there's so much about when certain ingredients began to be popular or widely available in the U.S. that has been so instructive to me.
This is my receipt pictured here—a remembrance of an Alicia I was nearly a decade ago! I usually save my own receipts in books for this reason, as record for me and whoever might have them in the future.
This is totally logical! I'm just finding so many cookbooks lacking these days, and this is the only reason I can figure out: There's an urgency toward the presentation rather than the instruction. My favorite parts of cookbooks, too, are rarely recipes but the information surrounding recipes. In the Dean & DeLuca cookbook, there's so much about when certain ingredients began to be popular or widely available in the U.S. that has been so instructive to me.
This is my receipt pictured here—a remembrance of an Alicia I was nearly a decade ago! I usually save my own receipts in books for this reason, as record for me and whoever might have them in the future.