Episode 14: Cookbooks

Welcome to Season 2! Lydia and Valerie took a few weeks off to let Valerie settle in with her newest little one, and are excited for a new round of conversations about cultivating our minds and homes. We’re wrapping up our series on the theology of hospitality and beginning a new series on one of the more practical aspects of hospitality, as well as of daily life: food and drink. Today’s episode is all about cookbooks! A brief history of cookbooks, the changing uses of cookbooks in a digital age, and the cookbooks that helped us learn to cook.Cookbooks discussed on the show:The Joy of CookingBetter Homes and Gardens New Cookbook Everyday Food: Great Food FastFat Salt Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good CookingSmitten Kitchen Everyday: Triumphant and Unfussy New FavoritesMastering the Art of French CookingOn Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the KitchenJerusalem: A CookbookSimple: A CookbookThe Flavor Bible

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Muse and Hearth is a podcast for Christian women who want to extend the ideas behind classical education and the Great Books tradition into all of life. Too often we leave the intellectual rigor of the liberal arts in the towers of academia, or in the textbooks. But what if we as women, as wives, as mothers, made that intellectual tradition a part of our own habits and our family culture?