Muse and Hearth
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?
Muse and Hearth
Episode 14: Cookbooks
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Lydia Foucachon and Valerie Abraham
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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 Cooking
- Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook
- Everyday Food: Great Food Fast
- Fat Salt Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
- Smitten Kitchen Everyday: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites
- Mastering the Art of French Cooking
- On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- Jerusalem: A Cookbook
- Simple: A Cookbook
- The Flavor Bible