If you’ve got a drawer full of handed-down family recipes, then a special workshop at the SA Writers’ Centre might be just the ticket.
Cooking the Books – the Secret Art of Recipe Writing is a one-off three-hour workshop being run this Saturday by Liz Harfull, author of the award-winning The Blue Ribbon Cookbook.
The workshop focuses on how to write to draw in the reader, whether it’s for publication or simply to record precious family memories.
“This is a great way to reconnect with your family’s history and get your recipes organised in a way that they are useful,” Harfull told InDaily.
“One of the biggest hobbies in Australia these days is family history and this is the food expression of that.
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“We look at is how to fill in the gaps in recipes, because many of them have a level of assumed knowledge that you’ll need to fill in.
“Some people’s recipes are just a list of ingredients and there’s no ‘method’ attached.
“It’s come out of the interest generated by the book and a concurrent rise in interest in home cooking.”
A celebration of South Australian country shows and show cooks, The Blue Ribbon Cookbook became a surprise best-seller after its release in 2008.
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It is now in its fourth print run and was named runner-up at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris in July 2009.
An award-winning journalist and Churchill Fellow, Harfull grew up on a small farm near Mount Gambier in South Australia, which has been in the family since the early 1860s.
“If you’re interested in the basics of writing recipes, or gathering up family recipes and writing them down before they are lost, the three-hour workshop will help you.
“I will share lessons learned in researching and writing The Blue Ribbon Cookbook, both the original version and the new edition featuring cooks from across Australia, which is due out in March 2014.
“I had a great time doing a similar workshop at last year’s Rural Women’s Gathering in Penola and this should be just as much fun.”
You can register for the June 29 workshop here.
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