A cookbook, you say?

*“Why don’t you write a cookbook?”* people ask me. They ask me all the time. Some people in publishing have even mentioned it to me. I’ve even asked myself. In fact, one of the reasons I moved to California and started freelancing was so that I could do exactly that, or at least I could develop one.

But you know what writing a cookbook entails? Recipes. I hate recipes. When people ask me for recipes, I respond with a detailed explanation of the cooking techniques they need to know. After that, who needs a recipe? [Poele]( http://omnivorousfish.com/node/176) recipe? For what? [Guazzetto]( http://omnivorousfish.com/node/265)? A list maybe, but a recipe? I know recipes are helpful; I certainly read them all the time. But- of course with the exception of baking- to me they are lists of ingredients.

Maybe I need to write the No Recipe Cookbook…

Listening: “Mr Pushkin Came to Shove” Combustible Edison The Impossible World