Your next cookbook

[voyager]

I really like Mimi Thorisson's sensibilities. Seasonal, beautiful, elegant. Yet simple and very "doable". https://www.amazon.com/Mimi-Thorisson/e/B00IXLN5L4

[Suzanne F]

I really like Mimi Thorisson's sensibilities. Seasonal, beautiful, elegant. Yet simple and very "doable". https://www.amazon.com/Mimi-Thorisson/e/B00IXLN5L4

 

But oh the discussions of the cover of A Kitchen in France and what it means! (Not positive by any means)

[Sneakeater]

I resent Mimi Thorisson's life.

 

Also: RECIPES FROM SHAKE SHACK???????????

[Behemoth]

Too instagrammy.

[voyager]

 

 

I really like Mimi Thorisson's sensibilities. Seasonal, beautiful, elegant. Yet simple and very "doable". https://www.amazon.com/Mimi-Thorisson/e/B00IXLN5L4

But oh the discussions of the cover of A Kitchen in France and what it means! (Not positive by any means)

What us offensive about the cover? And If I were half a century younger, I'd opt for her life. Maybe sans 6 or 7 kids.

[Sneakeater]

Everything is easy if you're wealthy and beautiful.

[Sneakeater]

I got the Samarkand book, which is incredibly appealing to me, but I haven't gotten up the nerve to try to cook anything inspired by it yet.

[voyager]

Everything is easy if you're wealthy and beautiful.

There's a lot to be said for either. Even more for both.

 

I still like her taste and simple approach. She instills quiet confidence, and the results are stunning and delicious.

[bloviatrix]

Yesterday was the pub date for Joan Nathan's new book King Solomon's Table. Looking forward to buying and cooking from it.

[Suzanne F]

 

 

I really like Mimi Thorisson's sensibilities. Seasonal, beautiful, elegant. Yet simple and very "doable". https://www.amazon.com/Mimi-Thorisson/e/B00IXLN5L4

But oh the discussions of the cover of A Kitchen in France and what it means! (Not positive by any means)

What us offensive about the cover? And If I were half a century younger, I'd opt for her life. Maybe sans 6 or 7 kids.

 

Other than the ultra insouciant, off-balance one-footed pose, the clearly impossible-to-work-at height of the table. That is not a woman cooking; that is a woman pretending to be a woman cooking.

 

Mostly though I think people were upset at the supposed perfectness of her life. Kind of the way people hate Ree Drummond.

[Sneakeater]

And Gwyneth Paltrow.

[Sneakeater]

And that Bacon woman.

[AaronS]

it looks like the three "new" books from the franny's people simply reprint sections of the franny's book. is that a common practice?

[Suzanne F]

I assume you're referring to the new Artisan series. Depends on the publisher. If they see a market, they might go for it. There are some new costs (sometimes new material is added), but basically this creates new revenue streams from material that has pretty much already been paid for. So it makes money for the publisher almost right out of the gate--and for the the author(s), depending on how the contract is written.

 

I think of Artisan as fairly expensive, high-production-value, big books. What I've seen in Publishers Weekly is that they want to reach a broader market with lower-priced, smaller, more "approachable" books. They figured that people love pizza and pasta. And they want to sell out of less-conventional outlets, not only traditional bookstores. The example I saw was the hope that someone would come to Artisan and say: "We sell pizza stones; why not a pizza book, too?" No comment on the lack of B2B marketing that hope conveys. Also no comment on the possibility that customers who bought the Franny's book will not realize that they already have the same material and needn't buy the "new" ones. (I've fallen for that myself; also when a book is reissued by a different publisher with a different title.)

[Lippy]

The library offered up Sicily, by Melissa Muller. It's beautiful, well written, and the couple of recipes I've made are simple and delicious. Sicilian cuisine incorporates flavors and techniques from the various cultures that have touched the island, rendering it different from other Italian styles, (not entirely different -- there's plenty of pasta) sufficiently distinct so that I can justify the purchase. I haven't been as interested in a cookbook since Jerusalem.