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While a student at the University of Mumbai, studying biochemistry and microbiology, cookbook author and food writer Nik Sharma learned a process that he would eventually use for developing recipes.
“We worked in a lab, doing medical research, ” he explains. “We were taught to make buffers or chemical solutions. The way it’s done is very similar to [Read more…] about For Nik Sharma, Developing Recipes is All About Science
A guest post by Christine Gallary
I live and breathe recipe development all day long, creating them in my home kitchen for clients or working on other people’s recipes. I’m not kidding when I say that I’ve edited thousands of recipes.
I owe this recipe development career of mine, which I absolutely love and adore, to my stint at Cook’s Illustrated (CI) over 10 years ago. It was the best bootcamp experience ever on learning how to develop good, solid, replicable recipes. I started out as a naive intern who had just graduated from culinary school, but soon, recipe development became my full-time profession. [Read more…] about What I Learned from Cook’s Illustrated about Recipe Development
Multiple-award winning author Deborah Madison is calling it quits on cookbooks, after 30 years, but she’s not done with writing. To the contrary, she’s working on a memoir.
She wrote 14 cookbooks during those three decades, which comes down to an average of just over one book every two years. It’s a grueling [Read more…] about Deborah Madison is Done After 30 Years of Cookbooks
When I attend food blogging conferences, optimizing recipe SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the subject of at least one session. Food bloggers always need to be up on the latest strategies of how to get more readers to their recipes.
Fortunately, there are experts who know this and who specialize in getting readers to your recipe blog. Casey Markee, the founder of digital marketing agency Media Wyse, speaks at [Read more…] about An Expert’s Tips for Optimizing Recipe SEO
While reading a cookbook review for Food52’s Piglet cookbook tournament, I noticed that Bonnie S. Benwick, recipe editor for the Washington Post, mentioned the absence of recipespeak in one of the cookbooks.
“Recipespeak!” I exclaimed to myself. I wasn’t sure what it was, but I had to find out. [Read more…] about Are You Guilty of Recipespeak? Why the Washington Post’s Recipe Editor Hates It
Look at these two current covers from Saveur and Fine Cooking. Shame on them. The editors imply that only perfect food is worthwhile, and that anything else you make is — well, sub par.
And who makes food that is less than perfect? Me. Most of us. Like you, I [Read more…] about Let’s Take “Perfect” Out of Cooking
Do you want to pay for recipes online? Probably not, but The New York Times thinks consumers will.
Last week it announced it will ask new subscribers to the paper to pay $5 per month for access to the 180,000 or so recipes on its online recipe database and companion app. Subscribers will also get videos, how to and seasonal content. Current newspaper subscribers get free access.
“The work we do is expensive, and we want to do more of it,” Sifton writes as justification. The Times probably has to pay for [Read more…] about Pay for Online Recipes? The New York Times Thinks So