The Recipe Writer's Handbook
by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann, Jane L. Baker
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Praise for The Recipe Writer's HandbookRevised and Expanded""Barbara Ostmann and Jane Baker are experienced food editors who know their stuff. To achieve success, a recipe must be written with impeccable accuracy and unambiguous clarity. The Recipe Writer's Handbook achieves both objectives in full measure.""-Irena Chalmers, author and professional food writing lecturer at The Culinary Institute of America""The First Edition of The Recipe Writer's Handbook was a terrific resource, and this show more revised edition is downright indispensable. It is full of answers to questions about show lessTags
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I should have read the title more carefully... this is definitely a handbook and not a how-to book. Most of it is dedicated to stylesheet type things like how to spell common recipe words. This book is suited for people who are currently writing recipes and not people who want to learn how to write good recipes.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Recipe Writer's Handbook
- Original publication date
- 1997
- Epigraph
- "One certainly cannot learn the technical details of cookery entirely from books, but if the cooks of the past had believed that written recipes were unnecessary, we should now be in a sad plight indeed."
- Elizabeth David - Dedication
- To the memory of my mentors in the kitchen -- my mother, Ernestine Kelly Lietwiler, and my grandmother, Eva Sue Lietwiler -- whose culinary skills continue to inspire me.
- JLB
To the memory of my grandmother, Sophronia Armilda Conner Gibbs, who baked the best biscuits in the world by adding ingredients to the flour in her blue grainteware biscuit bowl until the mixture looked and felt just r... (show all)ight. And to my mother, Virginia Dell Oliver Gibbs, whose coconut cream pie can't be beat.
-BGO - First words
- What is the soul of a written recipe?
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And, most important of all -- does the recipe work?
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Food & Cooking, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 641.5973 — Technology Home economics & family management Food and drink Cooking; cookbooks Cooking characteristic of specific geographic environments, ethnic cooking North America United States
- LCC
- TX715 .O84 — Technology Home economics Home economics Cooking
- BISAC
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- 133
- Popularity
- 244,620
- Reviews
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- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 1
