What Makes Dorie Greenspan’s Recipes So Good?

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ask folks in the world of food and cookbooks, “Who writes the best recipes?” and you’ll hear one name more than any other: Dorie Greenspan. "Dorie does rock solid recipes," says Chandra Ram, who judges the prestigious IACP Cookbook Awards. So what's Dorie doing that makes her recipes better than others?

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0:00.0	Sirius XM Podcasts.
0:07.0	Can you show me the butters that you have available in your house right now?
0:15.5	Oh, you have to come downstairs for that.
0:17.6	Okay, let's go.
0:18.5	Come on down.
0:19.6	Okay.
0:20.5	You have a separate butter fridge? Yeah. Okay, let's go. Come on down. Okay. You have a separate butter fridge?
0:22.5	Yeah. Oh, yes. Yes. Doesn't everyone? This is Dory Greenspan. I'm at her house in Westbrook,
0:30.0	Connecticut. Now, Dory just came out with her 15th cookbook, Dory's Anytime Cakes. Most of her books
0:35.6	have been about sweets and baking. She's especially known for her cookies.
0:39.0	Hence, the butter fridge, which she was so excited to show me, she was skipping down the stairs.
0:44.0	So this is your downstairs.
0:46.0	Breads are falling out of your extra fridge.
0:48.5	I've got...
0:49.8	Oh, my God.
0:51.0	It's really kind of...
0:53.0	I'm down.
0:53.8	So I buy butter in boxes of 36 pounds of butter.
0:59.0	Dory has a full-sized fridge in her basement, and I'd say a quarter of it is stacked with bricks of butter.
1:04.5	When she says she buys 36 pounds at a time, that's 144 sticks of butter.
1:09.6	This is cabots, which is local for us here.
1:13.3	The other day, butter was on sale, and I can't resist a sale.
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