How To Write a Recipe

How To Write a Recipe

Gavin Wren Food Blogging, Food Opinion Pieces, Writing

Writing a recipe is a complex proposition. You might just think it’s a list of ingredients followed by a few instructions about how you mix those ingredients together, but that’s just the shell of it, the dictionary definition of what a recipe is. To actually understand how to write a recipe, how you present that creation of yours to the world involves a deeper understanding not only of your audience, but also of yourself. What’s …

Recipe modification, diversification and bastardisation

Recipe Modification, Diversification and Bastardisation

Gavin Wren Food Blogging, Food Opinion Pieces, Writing

Respect the Recipe. There have been many occasions, both on this blog and in my real, physical existence, where I’ve managed to work myself into a contorted fit of rage over inappropriate recipe modification of certain traditional dishes. I have enormous respect for time honoured, traditional recipes, the amazing dishes and techniques which have been handed down through time for each generation to enjoy. Often based in simplicity, or invoking a fundamental technique of a …