I shared a photo of this notebook on Instagram recently and a lot of people seemed to love it. I realized it’s quite unusual for me to show off a notebook that is this beat-up and battered! Most of my notebooks are pocket size journals and sketchbooks. I tend to go through them fairly fast, … Continue reading My Messy Cooking Notebook
I realized that in all my “Using Now” updates, I’d forgotten to include one notebook that I use quite regularly. My cooking notebook is a large Piccadilly notebook that I bought at Borders many years ago, not long after I started this blog. In the first few pages, I wasn’t sure what I was going … Continue reading My Cooking Notebook (And Yummy Recipe)
Another nice example of a cook’s notebook, this time from the renowned cookbook author Paula Wolfert: Read more at: Her Memory Fading, Paula Wolfert Fights Back With Food – The New York Times
This week’s addict came to me via a tip from a reader (Thanks Raymond!), and I was delighted to see this story: Nancy Hanst has kept a food diary since 1962. I love Nancy’s stacks of little spiral-bound notebooks, and her consistency in keeping them for over 50 years! From Nancy’s article: So, here … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Nancy Hanst
These are some pretty well-used kitchen notebooks, belonging to Boston chef Jamie Bissonnette. They look like they’ve done some hard time in a hot kitchen! Read more at The Kitchen Spy: A Look Inside Jamie Bissonnette’s South End Pad | Boston Magazine.
This is something I’ve thought about doing for a while: keeping all your favorite recipes easily indexed in an address book: If you’ve been cooking for awhile, you probably have an arsenal of go-to recipes, dishes you can whip up from memory, but sometimes — especially when it comes to baking — you need to … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: An Address Book for Recipes
I liked this article: How Professional Chefs Organize Recipes With Digital Devices – WSJ.com. Although the article focuses on digital devices, good old paper notebooks make an appearance: Whether it’s a pile of food-splotched printouts or a cluttered digital desktop, many cooking enthusiasts are swimming in recipes, with no good system for storing them. Is … Continue reading How Chefs Keep Track of Their Recipes
This week’s notebook addict is food writer Elissa Altman, who calls herself a “journal junkie” and shares these images at her blog Poor Man’s Feast: Here’s some of her thoughts about her addiction: I don’t know when it happened, exactly, or why, but for as long as I can remember, I’ve been fanatical about notebooks. … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Elissa Altman