Eat Your Feelings — And Cook Them, Too, With These New Catharsis Cookbooks
A lot has been said about the joy of cooking, but what about the fury? A host of new cookbooks right now aim to help cooks pound, grate and shred their feelings about the state of the world.
When the pandemic started, food writer Sandra Wu started making smoothies, with a vengeance.
"Like, ugh, let's press blend," she remembers. "Let's put in some liquid, like ugh, and get it in there."
All her anger, frustration and fear melted away, she says, like the strawberries she pulverized in her blender. Now Wu's writing a cookbook, . It's part of a trend of catharsis cookbooks, says Paula Forbes, who publishes a newsletter about the cookbook industry called . She recently noticed a number of new cookbooks focusing more on
