num_pages: 208
description: Leaf through your cookbooks and youre likely to find a bit of paper with a recipe written in a familiar (or not-so-familiar) hand. It could be a family secret finally divulged a scribbled interpretation of something seen on TV even a culinary experiment long since forgotten. What happens to these recipes when the books are passed on? By day Michael Popek works in his familys used bookstore. By night hes the voyeuristic force behind the websites ForgottenBookmarks and HandwrittenRecipes where he shares the weird wonderful objects he has found among the stacks at his store. Handwritten Recipes is a treasury of Michaels most fascinating found recipes. Youll find classic Americana like pies and casseroles alongside ethnic mainstays such as Italian cookies springerle and German dumplings. Some are perfectly clear and complete while others leave crucial elementslike cooking times and ingredient measurementsto the readers imagination. You can venture to try any recipe or just enjoy Popeks findings as a time capsule from kitchens of generations gone by.
language: English
title: Handwritten Recipes: A Bookseller's Collection of Curious and Wonderful Recipes Forgotten Between the Pages
publisher: TarcherPerigee