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Mar 2018
45m 41s

Cooking the Books with Yotam and Nigella

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
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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 ... Show More
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