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Posts tagged Cookbooks
Don't rush it

A rapid-fire publishing company that publishes books based on big data algorithms (Bay Area!) — yes, the idea was tempting — because we all have extra time to be our own publicists when we work two jobs and are testing five to ten recipes a week — constantly checking items off of a massive to-do list, and able to keep my mind away from longer, lingering, harder tasks — sometimes, these things I jump into turn out to be wonderful surprises — falling for someone I met on the internet — I probably knew Facebooking for a paleo blogger was never going to be a good idea — also, writing is hard.

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October went by quickly (on cookbooks)

LIFE! IT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN! — branching out from my Internet hole — Ina Garten does not need to publish any more books — most of the food I prepared blurred together — far too much kale, pork fat, stupidly fancy and hard to source vegetables, obscure spices, coconut, roast chicken with sumac/za'atar/smoked paprika — don't require $200 in Amazon Prime purchases to begin a basic recipe — They are not written by mommy bloggers.

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