Comments on: “First Catch Your Hare”: A Brief Meditation on Written Recipes, Part I

By: Why I Cook « Comestibles

Why I Cook « Comestibles — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:04:36 +0000

[...] figure out how to make a real time machine, I’ll be here cooking my way through history. I read recently, that we have some 4,000 year old cuneiform tablets with recipes on them from Mesopotamia, how cool [...]

By: Cynthia Bertelsen

Cynthia Bertelsen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:15:22 +0000

So true, yes! And the beauty of it is that there are lots of books and materials still out there, waiting to be enjoyed.

By: Tracy Golightly-Garcia

Tracy Golightly-Garcia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:54:36 +0000

Cynthia
I am reading, The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse and I am finding it to be a fantastic book. What a great way to learn history and see how other people lived.
Tracy :)

By: Cynthia Bertelsen

Cynthia Bertelsen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:55:15 +0000

Beautifully put, Laura. Recipe as journey … very interesting idea!

By: Laura Schenone

Laura Schenone — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:25:26 +0000

Cynthia, In the typical manner of foodie elites, I used to rue the over-dependence of modern people on recipes. Oh how people want recipes recipes. Why don’t they just learn to cook.

But then I had a change one day when mulling over a beautifully produced food magazine offering so many lovely things.

I realized a recipe provides a sort of story, with a beginning, middle, and end. It is a little process that can be mastered. Even a journey. It makes a promise and the suspense has to do with whether the recipe author can keep that promise. I have started to rethink recipes as a wonderful invention in modern life.