Inside the World of a Cookbook Ghostwriter

Eater's Digest

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News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Turns out, lots of chefs aren't as great at writing as they are at cooking. So how do they bring their culinary visions to the pages of a cookbook? With help from people like JJ Goode, who help them translate their stories and recipes for home cooks. JJ joined Amanda and Daniel in studio to talk about how he got into the world of cookbook ghostwriting, and why even as a self-proclaimed lazy cook, he still loves checking out wildly difficult recipes. Then, we get into the biggest stories of the week, from a super expensive strawberry, to an alt milk burn, and a definitive ranking of all the best iced coffee drinks out there. Stories: Meet the $50 Strawberries Chefs are Fawning Over Guests: JJ Goode Serena Dai (@ssdai) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel (@martha_c_daniel) More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen, I'm Amanda Clute.
0:46.0	And I am Daniel Janine.
0:49.0	And this is Eder's Digest, a show about all things food and dining.
0:54.0	With a little help from the biggest names in the world of food and the
0:57.0	journalists here at Eater, we try to understand what's happening right now in kitchens,
1:00.5	restaurants, and dining rooms around the world.
1:02.8	Today on the show, we are talking to cookbook author,
1:06.1	J.J. Good.
1:07.5	Why are we talking to cookbook author, J.J. Good?
1:09.0	Because he is very fun, and I think people don't really know what's going on behind the scenes with cookbooks.
1:16.0	And we are also going to get into the biggest stories of the week.
1:20.0	We've got a very expensive strawberry and there was a pretty funny insult going around by a notable Republican to elite liberals everywhere.
1:31.2	Let's get into it. There are a lot of cookbooks coming out now and
1:37.6	J.J. is one of those people who's working behind the scenes. Yeah.
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