Cookbooks get another (premature) eulogy
November 14, 2017 by DarcieOver the past few years, we’ve reported on several people who have proclaimed the death of cookbooks. As we know, not only are cookbooks not dead, they are doing a smashing business. Yet there are those who continue to proclaim that cookbooks are dead. The latest to do so is Delia Smith, who recently announced that she won’t be writing another cookbook since everyone finds recipes online.
In a talk she gave at Buckingham Palace following a ceremony where she was made a Companion of Honour for services to cookery, Smith spoke dismissively of cookbooks, stating that she doesn’t think they are necessary in today’s online world. Not only has she swore off writing another volume, she thinks that too many cookbooks are currently being published in general.
Smith didn’t stop there and ranted about the entire food scene. She complained that “Cooking has become very poncy, very chefy – if I get one more plate put in front of me with six dots of sauce on it, I will go mad,” she said. She explained that it is difficult for her to find a restaurant “that isn’t trying to be theatre on a plate… I don’t like it at all,” she concluded.
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