Episode 65

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31st May 2021

How To: CONFESS OUR MOST EMBARRASSING RECIPES

Even veteran cookbook authors can be embarrassed by the recipes they've developed AND PUBLISHED!

We're Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, authors of over three dozen cookbooks and countless articles for magazines and online sites. Recently, we crossed over a line. We've now developed and published over 12,000 original recipes in a career that has lasted over twenty years.

But even we have recipes we regret. Hey, sometimes you look back in shame.

Here are the segments of this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK:

[00:42] We wrote a peanut butter book and Mark, who didn't go to chef school (AHEM!), came up with this embarrassing recipe. He called it "Elvis spread."

[04:16] And another from Mark. It's not really about the recipe. It's about it's title. He took a delicious fig ice cream recipe and turned into something . . . . well, we'll let you decide.

[09:52] Bruce's most embarrassing recipe was in an article we wrote for Eating Well magazine about Hanukkah dinner. He should have known better!

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About the Podcast

Cooking with Bruce and Mark
Fantastic recipes, culinary science, a little judgment, hysterical banter, love and laughs--you know, life.
Join us, Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, for weekly episodes all about food, cooking, recipes, and maybe a little marital strife on air. After writing thirty-six cookbooks, we've got countless opinions and ideas on ingredients, recipes, the nature of the cookbook-writing business, and much more. If you've got a passion for food, we also hope to up your game once and a while and to make you laugh most of the time. Come along for the ride! There's plenty of room!

About your host

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Mark Scarbrough

Former lit professor, current cookbook writer, creator of two podcasts, writer of thirty-five (and counting) cookbooks, author of one memoir (coming soon!), married to a chef (my cookbook co-writer, Bruce Weinstein), and with him, the owner of two collies, all in a very rural spot in New England. My life's full and I'm up for more challenges!