![]() The hours spent at home provided a lot of time to smoke meat, for example. ![]() Families even made projects out of writing cookbooks together about their pandemic efforts.īooks, project cooking and equipment sales formed a kind of symbiotic relationship. Home cooks perfected their dumpling-folding technique. Sales of canning and preserving books jumped 137 percent over 2019. So much bread was baked that it set off a run on flour. The year might best be remembered as the moment when project cooking became a national pastime. “ Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes,” the fourth book from Bay Area chef Bryant Terry, quickly sold nearly 30,000 copies, with another 55,000 in print - a testament to the publisher’s belief in the book. ![]() Concerns about climate change and a Covid-driven focus on personal health helped books on vegan and plant-based cooking, a category that had been growing, but slowly. Practiced cooks who might have spent a Saturday afternoon before the pandemic hand-rolling pasta sought recipes that would help keep weeknight cooking from becoming a grind. It sold more than 135,000 copies.īy contrast, 30,000 copies may not sound like much, but the sales figures were big for “ Cool Beans” by Joe Yonan, a treatise whose own editor predicted “would never set the world on fire.”Įveryday cooks went in search of new cuisines and projects to break up the routine. One of the year’s 10 best-selling cookbooks on a list compiled by BookScan offered 600 air-fryer recipes, owing as much to the appliance’s ability to crisp up takeout French fries as it does to its popularity with the Trader Joe’s set, who made it through the year by heating up vegetarian egg rolls and mac-and-cheese bites. “People just became more of their cooking selves.” “There’s not one story about how we learned to cook or learned to love or hate cooking during the pandemic,” said Francis Lam, the radio host and vice president and editor in chief of Clarkson Potter, a major cookbook publisher, who said he cooked more in 2020 than he had in his entire life.
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