Do Cookbooks Still Matter with Matt Rodbard
Do cookbooks still matter, or have they become expensive decorations for people who mostly cook from TikTok?
This week on Flavorphiles, Tanner and Jerry crack open the cookbook shelf to ask why we buy cookbooks and what they still give us that the internet can’t. We start with the strange joy of owning cookbooks we may never use, then talk with Matt Rodbard about how cookbooks actually get made and how they shape food culture.
Then we look back at cookbooks as the original food internet — part instruction manual, part status symbol, part cultural record. Finally, we dig into the books that earn their place on the shelf, from the practical workhorses to the ones that just make us want to cook.
Amuse Booze is a strange liquor we only read about in a book before tracking down a bottle.
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