Posted by Tracy in : books,convenience,cooking,eating,reviews,vegan,vegetarian ,
I have been thinking a lot about the function of cookbooks ever since reading Anne Mendelson’s Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking
, a biography about Irma Rombauer and her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, and of course the cookbook they both worked on. Also I have a rough draft of an essay about my favorite cookbooks kicking around here on TracyFood. In the meantime, however, I am posting a review of one of those favorite cookbooks which I originally wrote for Everything2.com because it’s minutes until midnight and I almost forgot about today’s post entirely — in part because I was reading another book about cookbooks, Mary Drake McFeely’s Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? American Women and the Kitchen
. Yeah, I’m a geek. But just wait until I start writing about the history of books about the history of cookbooks (Victor, I will blame it all on you.)
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