Add crock pot cookbooks to the simmering stew of AI-generated garbage being sold on Amazon. On Monday, investigative journalist Matthew Kupfer posted on X that he and his wife had received a cookbook for crock pot recipes as an anniversary gift from his parents. But the cookbook, The Complete Crock Pot Cookbook for Beginners by … Read more
Cookbook authors have a few options. They could write a regionally specific cookbook or a mass-market one starring ingredients that grow sustainably in lots of places (as One did). Or they could write a cookbook that samples vast biodiversity at some cost to sourceability—that’s the approach the UN cookbook took. “There are many cookbooks that … Read more
The cooking fire was once the center of the home. The modern stove has mostly removed fire from the equation, and architectural trends have shunted the hearth off to the side of the den, but the kitchen is still usually where the heart is. It’s where you make holiday meals. It’s where the kids lurk … Read more
Years ago while perusing one of Nigel Slater’s many cookbooks, I wondered aloud to a British friend about what made him so popular and prodigious. “Reading his recipes makes you feel like you’re sitting in his cozy kitchen, drinking a decent glass of claret and waiting for something delicious to eat,” says my friend, Guardian … Read more