How much do you cook from your cookbooks?
November 4, 2022 by DarcieBy and large, EYB Members own a lot of cookbooks. The numbers vary, with some people having just a handful and others thousands, but it is safe to say that if you are a member who does not like or possess multiple cookbooks, you would be an outlier. How much each of us actually cook from all of the books we own is a different question. As food writer Kate Gibbs explains, people only cook an average of two recipes from the cookbooks they own.
Kate knows a thing or two about cookbooks because she hails from a long line of food writers. Her grandmother, Margaret Fulton, wrote several bestselling cookbooks in Australia. Kate’s mother, Suzanne Gibbs, is a food editor who has likewise penned may books, and her sister Louise Keats is also a cookbook author. With this much familial expertise, it is no wonder that Kate gravitated to the subject.
She espouses the notion (with which I wholeheartedly agree) that even if we do not religiously use each and every one of our cookbooks to prepare meals and desserts, the books are still useful and worthy of our attention. Cookbooks can inspire and delight us. Says Kate, “It’s the same reason why we buy Vogue, even though we never plan to take off our Birkenstocks. It is why we buy home renovation magazines even though we can barely afford our rent. I’m as unlikely ever to roll my boeuf in truffles and pastry as I am to click “Add to cart” for a white leather Eames recliner … but a girl can dream.”
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