Why It's So Important to Get Recipes Right
On BA earlier this month, we published a pumpkin soup recipe from a cookbook. For the cookbook author, the soup was an expression of a historic Haitian dish, soup joumou, which is eaten every year in Haiti and the diaspora on January 1, the day in 1804 enslaved people gained independence. The cookbookâs soup recipe departed from important, foundational versions of soup joumou, and when we ran the recipe on Bon Appétit, we failed to provide enough context about either recipe, and BAâs recipe name and headnote did not accurately represent the recipe we ran. Along with my team, I...
Source: bonappetit.com