A RECIPE FOR GETTING CARRIED AWAY
How hard
could it be?✳
Vintage cookbooks. Questionable combinations.
A modern kitchen and an unreasonable amount of curiosity.
Famous last words. Excellent starting point.
AUDACITY
GOES A LONG WAY
WELCOME TO THE KITCHEN
Some people collect cookbooks.
I want to know what happens next.
I’m Kelly, and my shelves are full of vintage cookbooks. Inside them: familiar favorites, ambitious dinner parties, and recipes that make me stop and read the ingredient list twice.
This is where I follow that curiosity. The plan is to try the recipes, explore the history, and keep a record of what deserves another helping.
A little more about me ↗ON THE COUNTER
The salad chapter.
Proceed with curiosity.
We’re beginning with Southern Living: Our Best Recipes. Its salad chapter is a whole world of fruit molds, savory combinations, and dressings with something to say.
Inside the first cookbook ↗ALWAYS “WHY?”Sometimes
it’s “why not?”THAT’S WHERE THE AUDACITY COMES IN.
THREE WAYS INTO THE EXPERIMENT
Pick your kind of curious.
It’s a salad.
Apparently.
Gelatin, molds, and a remarkably broad definition of the word salad.
Explore gelatin recipes ↗02 / THE SUPPORTING CASTA little dressing.
A lot of personality.
The sauces and finishing touches that make the whole thing interesting.
Explore dressings ↗03 / NOTES FROM THE SHELFNOTE
BOOK.
There’s a story
in the margins.
The books, the context, and the questions worth bringing into the kitchen.
Read the notebook ↗MEET THE PERSON HOLDING THE WHISK
Hi, I’m Kelly Jayne.
I brought the audacity.
Collector of vintage cookbooks. Enthusiastic question-asker. The person behind Trial, Error, and Audacity, an ongoing excuse to try things I’ve always wanted to try.
Chef Edition starts with the books I already love collecting. Come for the curious recipes. Stay for the experiments, the context, and the occasional “who thought of this?”
Make yourself at home ↗