Monday, 29 September 2008

recipes revisited

i've been wondering about why i feel so weird about posting real recipes up here. i think it's partially because i think of this as a place to dump successful first experiments, works in progress, or things that are more stepping stones towards recipes.
but mostly i think it's to do with my fixation with provenance of recipes. if you look through my cookbook, every recipe is attributed (except about half a dozen i copied out of cookbook during middle school), if not to a person at least to a publication. recipes on the internet, while useful and inspiring and etc. lack that grounding in who came up with them or introduced them when and/or where. they're just search-engine fodder. and whilst i don't think anything i've come up with reaches anywhere near the level of, say Mrs. Biddle's Rolls or Lana Burwell's Artichoke Dip, or Linda's 1994 Thanksgiving Cornbread Dressing (It Was A Good Batch), somehow i feel like posting my inventions challenges the sanctity of the rest of the recipes in the cookbook, which seems an insult to their creators.
which is silly, i know. but for the present i think the real recipes will have to stay in the cookbook and this will have to put up with just being an experiments log.

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