Creamy words
Food writing and broadcasting is big business. In the current age of the celebrity obsession in particular it seems we cannot turn on the TV, open a colour supplement or walk past the first table in a book shop without being tempted by some attractive and mouth-watering new opportunity to cook ourselves some more lipsmacking grub.
Inevitably with an industry so big, there will be mediocraty; huge, creamy, swathes of the stuff. Some of it excels in entertaining us while some nourishes our social conscience. Most of it however ends up looking good on our shelves while we make that first risotto we learned a few years ago.
On tastybooks we think that good food writing should cut through all that glossy, coffee-table show-boating like a hot, wet, properly sharpened knife through a slice of home-baked vanilla cheesecake.
Inspired by the writings of Elizabeth David, Nigel Slater and others like them, tastybooks is about good food writing. This in turn is invariably about good food. But over and above that, it is about writing that has been done with the passion to inspire you.
If a recipe book or columnist makes your mouth water, compells you to pick up a spatula, baste an unusual joint of meat or run outside early in the morning looking for the nearest dehydrated mushroom stockist - we want to know who did this to you and how. Share it with us, please.
We will be reviewing new food writing from cook-books and travelogs to good-husbandry guides and food history. We will be reviewing old cook-books we have just discovered which are new to us. We will be doing this in the hope that we can help guide each other through the dark, dense delicious jungle of modern food publishing.
So if you want to share your joy at a sumptuous description of a provencale kitchen or tell us what happened when you baked your first cake on the nurturing words of one of your food heroes, your contributions are welcome here.
In the mean time please be patient as this site is still under construction.
Scrumptious scribblings, tasty text and delicious diatribe will appear as soon as possible.
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