{"id":94079,"date":"2016-02-02T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=94079"},"modified":"2016-02-02T21:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T02:52:27","slug":"armchair-cookbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/02\/armchair-cookbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Armchair Cookbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_94086\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ernst_ludwig_kirchner_-_artistin_marzella.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-94086\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94086\" class=\"wp-image-94086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ernst_ludwig_kirchner_-_artistin_marzella.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ernst_ludwig_kirchner_-_artistin_marzella.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ernst_ludwig_kirchner_-_artistin_marzella-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ernst_ludwig_kirchner_-_artistin_marzella-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ernst_ludwig_kirchner_-_artistin_marzella-1024x738.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-94086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, <i>Artistin<\/i>, 1910.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m changing. I have the right, don\u2019t I? People are changing all the time. I have to think about my future. What\u2019s it to you? \u2014<em>The Room<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lisa\u2019s right: you\u2019re never too old to change. When I think that, a year ago, I had never heard the term <em>armchair cookbook<\/em>\u00a0\u2026 and now I use it at least once a week! What a drab, colorless existence I\u2019d led!<\/p>\n<p><em>Armchair cookbook<\/em>: the words are delightfully contradictory, with their warring suggestions of action and relaxation, that cozy mix of nouns.\u00a0I first encountered the term in reference to <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Barbara Pym Cookbook.<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>It seems clear that the term is an Anglicism, more in use north of the border than in the U.S. But it doesn\u2019t refer merely to those books\u2014like the Pym, from which I have never cooked\u2014that combine recipes with straight reading material. At any rate,\u00a0<em>I<\/em>\u00a0use it rather more liberally.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While there are clearly shelves of books as suited to good reading as meal preparation\u2014think Nigel Slater\u2019s bracingly cozy kitchen diaries or the culinary essays of Laurie Colwin\u2014it is equally true that some books simply lend themselves to curling up and approaching like novels. There\u2019s little more tiresome than people prosing on about their supposedly eccentric penchants for reading cookbooks in bed, but it\u2019s simply true that some are better suited to it than others, and the reasons are somewhat mysterious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a highly personal matter. There are cookbooks I use a lot\u2014say,<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>The Craft of Baking<\/em>, by Karen DeMasco\u2014that I never remove from the kitchen. Meanwhile, I often reach for Sarah Leah Chase\u2019s\u00a0<em>Nantucket Open-House Cookbook<\/em>\u00a0before bed, but almost never use the recipes verbatim. Tamasin Day-Lewis\u2019s books make great reading; Pierre Franey is only for kitchen use. Sometime it\u2019s just a question of conversion (metric books usually jump the line to the bedside table)\u00a0but not always. Likewise, photos: they\u2019re less of a factor in the equation than you might think.\u00a0<em>The New York Cookbook<\/em>\u00a0is for reading; Patricia Wells is not. Edna Lewis is the rare letter <em>y<\/em>\u00a0who can do either, depending on mood.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to be transported or dictated to? Do you want to be hungry or imagine a different life or feel nostalgia? What sort of mental effort do you feel like making\u2014that of conjuring tastes, or that of picturing the way something looks, or feels? Or do you merely crave entertainment? I don\u2019t imagine any of this would be pleasurable if you could not, in fact, cook\u2014but when you can, the actual cooking is besides the point. You dwell in potential.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review<em>, and the <\/em>Daily<em>\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m changing. I have the right, don\u2019t I? People are changing all the time. I have to think about my future. What\u2019s it to you? \u2014The Room Lisa\u2019s right: you\u2019re never too old to change. 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