Cooking the Books with Yotam and Nigella

Gastropod

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley

Science, Food, History, Arts

4.7 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Who first started collecting recipes into cookbooks? Do cookbooks have a future in a world full of online recipes? And can cookbooks tell us anything about what people are actually eating, or are they simply aspirational food porn? This episode, we explore the past, present, and future of cookbooks, from cuneiform tablets to Hail Marys, with the help of two of our favorite cookbooks authors—and Gastropod fans—Nigella Lawson and Yotam Ottolenghi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, Nikki, what exactly is this sound?
0:06.4	Are we now one of those?
0:07.4	Do it yourself, HGTV shows?
0:09.2	No, although those shows are super popular, so maybe.
0:14.4	But that Cynthia is the sound of an out-of-control cookbook collection.
0:19.1	So out-of-control, that I have to build special shelving just to house it.
0:23.0	How many cookbooks are we talking about here?
0:24.5	I'm a little ashamed to reveal this, but okay, here goes.
0:29.1	My name is Nicola, I am a cookbook addict, and I have more than 100 cookbooks.
0:35.0	I want to cook outline.
0:36.5	I love them, though.
0:37.5	I don't tend to buy an insane amount.
0:39.8	But Nikki, you are nothing compared to two of our guests this episode.
0:43.2	I'm not good at calling.
0:45.0	I do have a big cookbook collection.
0:48.4	I want to say probably about a thousand, but I've never counted it.
0:53.0	Well, very savvy.
0:54.0	A lot of my cookbooks are in store.
0:57.3	It's huge and baggy, and there's no governing principle.
1:04.0	The truth is, I've got about five and a half thousand cookbooks in store.
1:08.8	Where I live is pretty much a couple of cookbooks.
1:11.0	I mean, a lot of them on the floor, otherwise on every available surface.
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