Food and Writing

The Sunday NY Times devoted the entire book review section to food books. Loved the article about various food writers' favorite out of print cookbooks. Jane and Michael Stern mentioned one of my favorites, Mary and Vincent Price's Treasury of Great Recipes. This book sells used for a godawful amount of money. My parents gave it to us one Christmas shortly after our marriage. Lots of food recipes and fun places and pictures. Who would have ever thunk that Price, of horror films was a foody?

One of my problems as a cook and a writer is that I tend to set too many scenes over meals in restaurants. Drama, conflict, information conveyed, a good meal: what's not to like. People who are not into restaurants and food don't like. I have to limit and curtail. Damn.

One of my favorite cook books is The Artist and Writer's Cookbook. Came out about the time of The Naked Lunch. Lots of people you never heard of and people who became very famous. Burl Ives had a cool recipe for barbeque sauce with chicken blood. I don't know. Never tried it.

Off to the shopping center to find River Shoes for Significant Other. We are going to North Georgia for some serious eating, talking, tubing and getting away from it all. Along the way we'll try a few road few restaurants. But not for another month.

Aloha,

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