Reading notes: 'Gullah Geechee Home Cooking'
By Emily Meggett. Notes:
- I read this in part to fill in a square in a local library's summer reading Bingo chart. It's probably the first cookbook I've ever read cover-to-cover.
- There's a particular pleasure in reading a cookbook I don't much want to cook from. (A lot of it looks quite delicious, but tends not to be the sort of stuff that fits my household well. Also, there's (e.g.) a lot more Crisco than I'm interested in eating these days.)
- You can paraphrase a lot of Tyler Cowen's reading notes as: "you tend to learn history a lot better by reading histories of very specific subjects or by reading books that don't get categorized as history books." I suspect I've learned a lot more about Gullah geography and culture from this book than I would have from a standard introduction to it.
- I appreciate cookbook editors more than I used to. (Is it better to repeat the technique for making breadcrumbs a dozen times or to make the reader flip to a "here's how to make breadcrumbs" page every time a recipe needs breadcrumbs? There are a ton of issues like this.)