Rhubarb coffee cake: Proof that 'a recipe is a river'
Author of the article: Lindy Mechefske Publishing date: May 03, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 4 minute read Article content A recipe is a river. So said someone, somewhere, once upon a time. I thought perhaps it was Jacques Pepin, but after searching through his books, his website and the entire world wide web, I cannot find a single reference anywhere to the line. So perhaps it was not Pepin, the famous French-born American engineer-turned-chef who said this. Nor anyone else, either. Maybe I merely dreamt it. It makes perfect sense to me that a recipe is like a river. A river ebbs and ...