Welcome to the new blog!

by Suzi on June 3rd, 2008 in Personal 10 Comments

I know I have said to all my friends, family and clients that I would never write a cookbook or anything else, and believe me I went into this venture tenderly. The point is, after being in the food business for nearly 20 years I do have things to say about cookbooks and cooking. This blog is a great way to do it.

First a little history about me. I have been cooking for a long time. I am not one of those people who can look into the refrigerator and say “hum, what can I make for dinner tonight” and whip up a gourmet meal. I am definitely a recipe driven person. I like cooking from a recipe, testing it first and then perhaps experimenting with it to make it my own.

I started collecting cookbooks when I was in college in the 70’s. Like most people who cook from cookbooks, I learned that I must be doing loads of things wrong, because a number of recipes that I tried did not work out well, not well at all! I thought this was a direct reflection of my abilities or lack of. Some books were very reliable of course, such as Julia Child’s books, but others were less easy to use or understand. I must not have been paying attention in college, because I was not able to figure out what the difference was between a good cookbook and a bad cookbook. I eventually discovered the author was the key to that equation and they had to be a detailed person who tested their recipes for the general audience. Not all authors do that.

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