Oh em gee! I am so tired of baby-talk words in recipe writing, especially:
- Yummy
- Sammy, and
- Tummy.
While editing a cookbook manuscript for a publisher, I decided the author must have been a Rachael Ray groupie. How else to explain her use of these three terms, not to mention “easy-peasy” and exclamation points in almost every recipe headnote? At least she didn’t add “Yum-O.” [Read more…] about Let’s Take the Baby Talk out of Recipes
