Learning how cookbooks and recipes are built / written. Used to work in a kitchen, but it’s v different
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... and have to be more explicit about. Approaching it from first principles in case someone is starting from 0. It’s also an opportunity to teach people basic techniques for cooking or prep though.
It’s interesting isn’t it. ‘Opportunity to teach basics’ is a big gap in cookbooks; which partly explains why Samin Nosrat has done so well, approaching it from a frame of general heuristics before object level recipe details. Communicating across skill asymmetry is so tricky.
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You mentioned learning how cookbooks are built; is this something you’re working on for a project? Or is it more interest led (if that split makes sense)?
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I also think there is a sort of meta level of skill which some books communicate well, which is to do with appreciation, learning to love food, a sort of aesthetic sensibility in one’s approach. Not cooking in a professional environment, allows you to luxuriate. Love is cheap!
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