“What’s so uncool about measuring?” food historian Laura Shapiro asked in The Atlantic last week. It was a question aimed at The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes, a new cookbook by Sam Sifton that aims to show us all how “Cooking’s not difficult. It’s just a practice.” (Direct quote from a passage about how to cook teriyaki salmon.) In her review of the cookbook, aptly titled “When Dif Following Recipes Become a Personal Failure?”, Shapiro admits that Sifton’s no-recipe approach to cooking—you don’t need pesky measurements and precise steps, because cooking is all about FEELING, just like jazz!—is appealing and aspirational, no question, but nonetheless, there is a large contingent of readers who won’t like this approach and needn’t try to embrace it. Home cooks shouldn’t consider their desire to follow a recipe some sort of shortcoming; after all, if we were all gifted divine
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