Idea for food/cookery writers
As regular readers will know, from time to time I like to suggest ideas for writing projects in my blog. Well, here's another.
A couple of months ago, my partner Jayne decided our lives wouldn't be complete without a microwave oven. You might be a bit surprised we hadn't had one before. As we both enjoy cooking and take food reasonably seriously, however, we'd never felt the need for this 'convenience' tool before.
Anyway, a shiny, top-of-the-range microwave with grill and convector heater duly appeared in our kitchen. Slightly to my surprise we've found ourselves using it a lot, for all sorts of things from quickly heating up breakfast cereal in the morning to cooking jacket potatoes (which it does far better than our ordinary electric oven).
Anyway, here's the thing. I thought I'd get Jayne a book about microwave cooking as one of her 'stocking filler' Christmas presents. Off I went to my local bookstore and there I found - one book. I duly bought it, but it's not very inspiring - just a list of around 1,000 assorted recipes with almost no illustrations.
So it seems to me there is a gap in the market for books that inspire people to make more use of their microwaves. How about vegetarian recipes for the microwave, for example? Or low-fat microwave cooking? Or microwave cooking on a budget/for students? Healthy fast food with your microwave? Microwave cooking for the 21st century? There must be lots of possibilities.
It would also be great if I could find a book that shows you how to use the other facilities in a cooker such as ours - the grill and convector heater - in combination with the microwave. The instruction booklet which came with the oven is next to useless for this, and so far we haven't tried out these features at all. OK, not everyone's oven has these extra features, but I'm sure a lot do.
If you don't fancy writing a book, how about an article or two? Nobody ever seems to write about microwave cooking. In Jayne's women's magazines - which I peek at from time to time - they never seem to get a mention, unless disparagingly. An article offering a fresh perspective on microwave cooking could well be a winner with them.
So there you are. There must be many millions of these ovens across the world, with many of them being used for nothing more ambitious than reheating cups of coffee and cooking Pot Noodles. I know serious cooks sneer at them, but maybe it's time for the humble microwave to be rehabilitated. How about it, you food writers?
A couple of months ago, my partner Jayne decided our lives wouldn't be complete without a microwave oven. You might be a bit surprised we hadn't had one before. As we both enjoy cooking and take food reasonably seriously, however, we'd never felt the need for this 'convenience' tool before.
Anyway, a shiny, top-of-the-range microwave with grill and convector heater duly appeared in our kitchen. Slightly to my surprise we've found ourselves using it a lot, for all sorts of things from quickly heating up breakfast cereal in the morning to cooking jacket potatoes (which it does far better than our ordinary electric oven).
Anyway, here's the thing. I thought I'd get Jayne a book about microwave cooking as one of her 'stocking filler' Christmas presents. Off I went to my local bookstore and there I found - one book. I duly bought it, but it's not very inspiring - just a list of around 1,000 assorted recipes with almost no illustrations.
So it seems to me there is a gap in the market for books that inspire people to make more use of their microwaves. How about vegetarian recipes for the microwave, for example? Or low-fat microwave cooking? Or microwave cooking on a budget/for students? Healthy fast food with your microwave? Microwave cooking for the 21st century? There must be lots of possibilities.
It would also be great if I could find a book that shows you how to use the other facilities in a cooker such as ours - the grill and convector heater - in combination with the microwave. The instruction booklet which came with the oven is next to useless for this, and so far we haven't tried out these features at all. OK, not everyone's oven has these extra features, but I'm sure a lot do.
If you don't fancy writing a book, how about an article or two? Nobody ever seems to write about microwave cooking. In Jayne's women's magazines - which I peek at from time to time - they never seem to get a mention, unless disparagingly. An article offering a fresh perspective on microwave cooking could well be a winner with them.
So there you are. There must be many millions of these ovens across the world, with many of them being used for nothing more ambitious than reheating cups of coffee and cooking Pot Noodles. I know serious cooks sneer at them, but maybe it's time for the humble microwave to be rehabilitated. How about it, you food writers?
Nick at 8:25 AM
1 Comments:
i am balasanmuganathan,Ihave already sent one mail to you,
but this particular blog interested me so much , I wanted to write this. about writing for microwave cooking and you mentioned about vegetarian. I already have a blog under the title 'Vegetarian mess'.I am providing our Sri lankan style recipes there. I will take your advice also, as at my home , we too have one microwave oven.(vegetarianmess.blog.com)
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