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So You Want To Write a Cookbook

A collection of cookbooks. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

So so so many people tell me they have a cookbook to write, asking for advice, and I almost always do my best to discourage them, with Asian delicacy and Germanic firmness, I hope. Because I believe that there are too many cookbooks out there already and the ones so often published add nothing new. So when writer and educator Dianne Jacob asked me what does define a successful cookbook, it got me thinking. She’s written an excellent post collating many, many responses from people in the industry. The responses are surprising in their diversity. The first and obvious answer is, a book is successful if it makes money for the publisher and author.  And there are many ways this can happen, meaning that a book that sells ...

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Charlie Trotter

Charlie Trotter will be closing his doors at his restaurant in August 2012, via NYT. 

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Banana Lifespan

Check out this video from the 1930's about the banana industry and more about this fruit, via the Atlantic.

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High End at Home

How high end professional chefs have translated their craft to the home cook and how to make home cooked food well, via NYT.

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A Food Buzz

Video: take an adventure with an entomophagist, an insect eater, via The Perennial Plate.

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Ruhlman in Chicago

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Growing Meat

Scientists may soon be able to grow artificial meat in labs by merging pig stem cells and horse foetus serum.  Frankenburger Lives, via the Telegraph UK.

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Prescott Frost Organic Beef Venture

Prescott Frost raises organic, grass-fed cattle in Nebraska. (Photo courtesy of Prescott Frost)

I love benevolent crazy people, people who just do things because they have to. Sometimes they make sense (Dickson Despommier and vertical farming). Sometimes they make no sense at all (making a farm and raising livestock in urban Oakland, which is what Novella Carpenter did—totally crazy, and she wrote a fabulous book about it called Farm City). I know benevolent insanity the moment I hear it and I heard it the moment I heard Prescott Frost's voice: “Every acre I can change from corn to grass, the better.  It’s the only way we’re going to change this train wreck that we have now,” he told me by phone last week.  He was calm and direct. “My mission is to change ...

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Respecting Meat

By supporting local farmers for meat you maybe ignoring & perpetuating the existence of factory farms, learn the term "conscientious carnivorism", via the Atlantic.

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Seafood Fraud

A study shows that there many restaurants and stores who mislabel fish.  Learn what fish are most commonly swapped, such as wild salmon, grouper, and red snapper, via Huffington Post.    

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