Greatest Cookbook Intros of All Time by Gallery https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros Some are intentionally hilarious; some just hilarious. en-us 2023-06-26 19:41:56 UTC 2025-08-14 06:34:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Chrissy Teigen, Cravings gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/96785600 Look, I don’t want to be one of those dead-inside laughing-with-a-salad chicks.]]> 2016-02-23 17:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/96785600 Ginny Kay McMean, The Make Ahead Vegan Cookbook gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/96805708 "When I first became vegan, I bought some cookbooks and did not realize that I had obtained some down-and-dirty, no-nonsense, hardcore vegan cookbooks that took no prisoners."]]> 2016-02-23 18:21:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/96805708 Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa: Foolproof gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/96807555 “It’s really important to buy the right ingredients for a recipe. Once in a while, someone writes to me to say they made my chocolate cake and it didn’t come out right - and what’s wrong with my recipe? I’ll quiz them and find out that oops! they didn’t have any cocoa powder on hand so they used sardines instead.”]]> 2016-02-23 18:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/96807555 David Chang, introducing Danny Bowien's The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99156058 It's like you live your whole life pretty damn sure that you don't like pain of any kind. It could be a trio of oiled-up supermodels waving that bullwhip or nipple clamp, but you aint having any of it. Then something happens. Life changes. You learn some very dark shit about yourself. And Mission Chinese shows it to you.]]> 2016-03-04 22:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99156058 Alli Maffucci, Inspiralized gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99159259 Sunday-night dinners at the home of my father’s parents were always quite the scene. My sweet grandmother - a woman who proudly donned her Sunday best for Mass and washed my mouth out with soap for saying “pee” instead of “tinkle” - would be burning something in the oven and scuffling about the kitchen with a spoon in her hand, dripping sauce on the tiled floors.]]> 2016-03-05 00:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99159259 Zach Golden, What the F**k Should I Make for Dinner? gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99159321 I once heard of a man who baffled scientists with his reputed ability to forego eating for years on end, and well, that man is dead. And I can’t imagine a less fun party guest. Some people say it’s a drag to have to feed yourself, but plain and simple, those people are douchebags.]]> 2016-03-05 00:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99159321 Juli Bauer, Juli Bauer’s Paleo Cookbook gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99159691 My high school experience was similar to the TV show Glee, but instead of getting a slushy thrown in my face, it was a Frosty that came plowing at me in a drive-by. Some hormone-crazed almost-a-woman legitimately threw a Frosty out a car window, aimed at my face. Yeah, high school wasn’t my jam. But what I found much more insulting than the Frosty being whirled at me like a football was that this girl and the audacity to throw out a full Frosty. She just wasted it. Straight up. That may have been the moment I began to understand my unhealthy relationship with food. ]]> 2016-03-05 01:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99159691 Alex Stupak, Tacos gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99161417 Let’s get this out of the way right up front. I’m a white boy from suburban Massachusetts where Old El Paso taco nights were mother’s milk.]]> 2016-03-05 02:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99161417 Jim Madden, Man Meets Stove gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99161594 Do you like to eat? 
No, do you REALLY like to eat? 
Do  you like to get lucky?

Because, my man, it is this last question that should inspire you to read on. Babes like men who cook. That’s right, it gives them shudders to have you cook them a great meal. Ecstatic shudders in places you want. 
]]> 2016-03-05 02:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99161594 David DiBenedetto with Philip Rhodes. The Southerner's Cookbook gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99476746 We Southerners are picky about our ingredients. Almost snooty…I’ve witnessed heated debates on the best oyster for a roast: the prevailing opinion in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, where I live now, being Beaufort Clusters. (And how dare you steam them too long!) When the local farmers’ market gets green peanuts - the best for making boiled goobers, aka boiled peanuts — our cell phones buzz with text messages. ‘They’re here.’]]> 2016-03-07 18:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99476746 Deb Perelman, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99526613 Whenever I’m asked how I got here - presumably, to a place where you’d have my cookbook in front of you, not my writing lair with a bay window overlooking the sea my sofa with an explosion of wooden train tracks around me - I always wish I had a better kitchen story to share. ‘Just tell us your story!’ people say, but I think that they’re lying. I think that people want me to tell them a good story. 

They want to hear that I’m a fifth-generation chili maker from Texas or that I only eat food that I hunt, forage, or find under the wheel of a car. That I went to cooking school and spent years on the line being yelled at by a  French guy with his name over the door. Or maybe I was in a thrift store and found a collection of handwritten Hungarian recipe cards and made it my life’s work to bring an old’ lady’s cooking back to life. People want a story with drama and excitement. They don’t want to hear that I’ve been a record store shift supervisor, a swirler of soft-serve frozen custard, an art therapist, and an IT reporter. 

They don’t want to hear that I just like to cook.
]]> 2016-03-07 22:09:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99526613 F.L. Fowler, Fifty Shades of Chicken gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99528657 How have I gotten myself into this? I glance around the spotless, meticulously organized kitchen: trussing twine, skewered, mallets - is that a cleaver? Holy crap. 
...
Instantly I feel hands on me, lifting me carefully from the tiles. Long, powerful fingers cradle me from underneath and expertly tuck my giblets back in place. Holy cow. Something clenches deep inside me.
]]> 2016-03-07 22:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99528657 Milton Crawford, The Hungover Cookbook gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99529369 If it doesn’t sound too grotesque to you in your weakened state, there is more than one way to skin a cat, and I will introduce to you the multi-faceted, subtle art of dealing with a hangover that goes far beyond the traditional British solution of chucking a full English at it.]]> 2016-03-07 22:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99529369 Coolio, Cookin' with Coolio gallery_user https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99530156 I am the kitchen pimp who won’t hesitate to fillet Bobby Flay or send my posse after Emeril Lagasse.]]> 2016-03-07 22:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gallery/cookbookintros/wish/99530156