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Are tablets making old fashioned cookbooks obsolete?
The year is 2041. Imagine baking cookies with your grandchildren. You are watching a hologram demonstrate how to program your personal Top Chef kitchen robot to cream sugar and butter together. Pretty hard to imagine right? Well maybe not. It appears we are the track to that digital kitchen reality if this recent article in the New York Times is correct…and personally I think that to replace all cookbooks with an iPad is iSad. As much as I love my tablet, I love my tactile collection of dog eared recipes with stained pages and scribbled notes in the margin even more. Some things just aren’t meant to be upgraded. Are they?
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Marcella’s Italian Kitchen
Cookbook Review: From time to time I like to break out my first cookbooks from 20+ years ago. Dog-eared and stained pages with broken bindings (due to heavy cans of roma tomatoes holding them open while I cook) show how much I really love(d) them. I still remember the joy of finding a Marcella Hazan gem, Marcella’s Italian Kitchen (Knopf, 1986), at a second hand bookseller on Polk Street in San Francisco. The shop is long gone but the recipes from this cookbook were my first exposure to the joys of her Cucina Italiana and remain one of my absolute favorites. Try making her classic tomato sauce via NYT Cooking (download PDF) for dinner tonight. More…
