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"A few decades ago there was a more popular genre of cookbook: a huge 200p book" "Joy of Cooking" ©1975 is 915 pages. "The New Book of Middle Eastern Food" ©20
by downut 2y ago
"A few decades ago there was a more popular genre of cookbook: a huge 200p book"
"Joy of Cooking" ©1975 is 915 pages.
"The New Book of Middle Eastern Food" ©2000 is 513 pages.
"Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" ©1997 is 742 pages.
"The River Cottage Meat Book" ©2007 is 543 pages.
"Mastering the Art of French Cooking" ©2001 (40th Anniversary Edition) is ~720 pages, but this is just the first volume; the 2nd which is similar in length is an extension, true, but also illuminates uncovered areas in V1 like charcuterie.
I've got many more fat cookbooks, of which quite a few spend a 100 pages or more on basic techniques for the culinary area they illuminate.
I am not sure I would trust the parent commenter's accuracy on well, anything, really, if the data they cite are so disconnected from reality.
- makeitdouble 2y agoI don't have the book anymore, so reading your comment I thought for a second I was wildly misremembering. But no, these books do fit around 200p [0]. I actually couldn't find exactly the one I had in mind, so linked to one with exactly the same title and content, and the whole genre had most books around 170~220p. The one I had was already big enough to feel cumbersome, enough so that I gave it away when moving。 Looking at the Joy of Cooking, is it a B5 format with only text in it ? I would see how moving to a "show don't tell" approach with more illlustrations and an A4 format where everything can be shown in blocks would tremendously help in getting more information density. [0] https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%A3%9F%E6%9D%90%E5%88%A5-%E3%81%8A%E3%81%84%E3%81%97%E3%81%95%E3%81%A8%E6%A0%84%E9%A4%8A%E3%82%92%E5%BC%95%E3%81%8D%E5%87%BA%E3%81%99%E6%96%99%E7%90%86%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8D%E3%81%BB%E3%82%93-%E5%AE%9F%E7%94%A8%EF%BC%AE%EF%BD%8F%EF%BC%8E%EF%BC%91%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA-%E7%94%B0%E5%8F%A3-%E6%88%90%E5%AD%90-ebook/dp/B08K3PQ9JP/ref=sr_1_6 https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E9%A3%9F%E6%9D%90%E5%88%A5-%E3%81%...
- downut 2y agoCheck the link people. AI is fucking up the world.
- makeitdouble 2y agoWhat is AI about it ? I get the amazon page of a basic japanese cooking book, are you getting something else ?
- makeitdouble 2y agoI guess this will be my first "I was called an AI" moment, and I guess we'll get used to it in no time. Reminded me of this discussion, in reverse: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40862865