
READING THE RECIPE: SUBSTANCE, STYLE, AND STORY WITH GENEVIEVE VILLAMORA
Join Genevieve Villamora and Bold Fork Books for a 6-Week Generative Workshop: READING THE RECIPE: SUBSTANCE, STYLE, AND STORY. READING THE RECIPE will meet on six consecutive Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8pm beginning March 5, 2025. ABOUT THE CLASS Before measuring the first ingredient, before picking up a whisk, the first step in cooking a recipe is to read it. In this workshop, we will dive deep into the fundamentals of this written form. This is a class for cooks of all levels who love words as much as they love to eat. Together we’ll aim to deepen and enhance our experience of cooking by cultivating a multifaceted understanding of the recipe - one of the most basic and accessible tools for learning about the culinary world. The class will map out the building blocks of recipes with the goal of understanding what makes one flop and another succeed. Using this framework, we will practice analyzing and troubleshooting the text of recipes together. We will read a range of writers - fr