Food Podcasts

✴︎ Gastropod

✴︎ The Sporkful

✴︎ Proof

✴︎ Maintenance Phase (discussions and debunks of nutrition & wellness culture)

On Recipe Writing

✴︎ The Art — And Joy — Of Recipe Writing | ✴︎✴︎✴︎✴︎A Juicy Bit✴︎Julia Turshen: Recipes don’t just appear, like well-written, well-tested recipes take so much work. … a really well-written recipe is a little bit like a really good poem, even if that sounds cheesy. But it’s like, it seems simpler but so much work went into it and so much taking out and editing and it has to be really descriptive. | The Sporkful podcast (March 2020)

✴︎ The Two Signs of a Great Recipe by Jenny Dorsey | Kitchn (May 2020)

✴︎ Sticklers, Improvisors, and “Following” Recipes by Paula Forbes | ✴︎✴︎✴︎✴︎A Juicy Bit✴︎So what is a recipe writer to do? Write for the sticklers, who find comfort in detail? Assume the reader will add as much garlic as they damn well please, regardless of what you write? Strike a balance between the two? … The answer, I find, is simply writing longer recipes. Using more words. Being generous, yes, but also writing persuasively: if something is important, I will say so, and I will tell you why. Yes, caramelizing onions really takes that long. No, you can not use pre-shredded cheese in pimento cheese because it is coated with anti-caking agents, you must grate it yourself. I’m sorry, I know the pre-shredded is easier. Trust me. Trust me. | Stained Page News (Januarry 2022)

✴︎ Other Kitchens, Other Cooks: Generosity in Recipe Writing by Cynthia Nims | ✴︎✴︎✴︎✴︎A Juicy Bit✴︎Writing successful recipes requires the author to think ahead to a future time and place, to an unknown kitchen with equipment and ingredients that likely vary from those originally used, prepared by a reader with cooking experience that can be vastly different from their own. // Recipes that illuminate, rather than consternate, begin with clear and accurate ingredient information and preparation steps. Even better are recipes that use voice, personality, and expertise to convey information so that the home cook has every opportunity to succeed. And the best recipes share insights along the way that can be applied beyond the recipe at hand. | Stained Page News (November 2021)

Recipe Development Resources

✴︎ The Recipe Writer’s Handbook by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann and Jane L. Baker

✴︎ King Arthur’s Ingredient Weight Chart

✴︎ My Own Ingredient Weight Chart (using the King Arthur chart as a starting point)

My Favorite Food Writers & Recipe Developers

✴︎ Dorie Greenspan

✴︎ J. Kenji López-Alt

✴︎ Stella Parks

✴︎ Deb Perelman (Smitten Kitchen)

✴︎ Alton Brown

✴︎ Carolina Gelen

✴︎ Erin Jeanne McDowell

✴︎ Frankie Gaw