How Cookbooks Travel Across Cultures, Part 2

In Part Two of my conversation with cookbook author and recipe developer Maria Zizka, we dig even deeper and explore her work in Americanizing recipes, and her experience teaching at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Northern Italy. Maria explains how she guides students through the many ways to write a recipe—always encouraging them to embrace their personal voice in the process. “Only you can write your version of a recipe,” she says, and that authenticity is what makes recipes truly shine. We also touch on Preserving Tradition Through Adaptation, Why Voice and Specificity Matter in Recipe Writing and the Challenges of Ingredient Translation including the complexity of ingredient substitutions when adapting international recipes for American kitchens....