1 Cookbooks
Collecting many of my irritations about cookbooks (No “why,” no tolerance bounds for their recommendations), Joe Pinsker reviews some new “metacookbooks”.
- Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat (Nosrat 2017) sounds like one antidote
- Sally Schneider’s Improvisational Cook (Schneider and Robledo 2006) also sounds good.
Since that article, I’ve run into a few more in that vein (McGee 2004; Page 2008) and ultimately bought (López-Alt 2015) (via Jehan Kanga). One might hit the archives of the website Cook’s science.
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2 Arresting recipes
- Baked crumbed blooming onion
- Crispy based tart
- Salt-cured egg yolks. (Via Thomas Scheckter)
- No knead pan pizza
3 Incoming
Interesting Esoterica has a food section including
- The mathematics of burger flipping
- Convex Equipartitions: The Spicy Chicken Theorem
- Hunting Rabbits on the Hypercube
- …
These “recipes” might only feed your brain
The Sad Bastard Cookbook A completely free cookbook for the zero spoons crowd By Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov Illustrated by Marten Norr
It has recipes to make when you’ve worked a 16-hour day, when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why, when you accidentally woke up an Eldritch abomination at the bottom of the ocean. But most of all, this cookbook exists to help Sad Bastards like us feel a little less alone at mealtimes.