Interview with Dorie Greenspan
The blog Baking and Books interviews baking cookbook author Dorie Greenspan, with thoughtful questions on baking itself and, interestingly, on the process of writing a cookbook (Greenspan has knocked out nine of them):
When you begin working on a new book what comes first: the recipes or the concept?
I’ve never thought about a book project this way. Hmmm. Of course, it’s always about the food, so I would have to say that the food (probably not recipes, per se) comes first. Yes, the food comes first! (Thanks for letting me work this out.) But for me, food is always in a context—it’s about people, places, occasions, cultures, traditions and ingredients, of course—so I’ve never really thought about what comes first; the recipes and the concept are intimately entwined.
Also worth clicking through for: a delicious-sounding recipe for Greenspan's "Corniest Corn Muffins" at the end of the interview.
[Thanks to Serious Eats reader NaomiKatt for the tip!]
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Many thanks for the mention!
BakingAndBooks at 9:18PM on 04/26/07