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Famous Recipes in the New York Times

The New York Times Food and Dining Section talked about Famous Recipes
<http://famousrecipes.wordpress.com/> today in this article about the
rise of populism in cooking.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/dining/27cook.html>

In part the article said this:

Food for the People, Whipped Up by the People

By JULIA MOSKIN
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Published: December 27, 2006

IF you wanted to appear in a food magazine or publish a cookbook in
2006, to star in a television cooking show or increase the traffic on
your Web site, your best move was clear: don't be a chef.



Food Network

DOES HER OWN CHOPPING Paula Deen, above, brought Southern home cooking
to the Food Network. "The Taste of Home Cookbook" is one of the
best-selling cookbooks of the year.

It was the year the people took back the food. Expertise was out: the
Food Network edged aside chefs like Mario Batali to make room for
home-cooking queens like Paula Deen, Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray. The
most popular new food magazines and cookbooks were collections of
recipes from real home cooks (or those who pretended to be), often
stamped with the irresistible words "home-style,"
"country" and "everyday."

And one of the Web's most popular independent food blogs, according
to data collected by Alexa, a Web information company, was an
undiscriminating one titled World Famous Recipes. Bill Austin of
Scottsdale, Ariz., collects recipes and recipe links at
famousrecipes.wordpress.com <http://famousrecipes.wordpress.com/> ,
presenting them unedited and without comment. The site's motto:
"Famous and not so famous recipes — who are you to decide? Who
am I to decide?"

Today's home cooks want to decide for themselves, or learn from
others like them.

"When you have the Internet, who needs cookbooks?" said Amy
Cisneros, an avid cook from San Antonio. "I look at all the
different recipes, and then I make it my way."

… More at the NY Times site



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