Just For You: In The Next CulinaryWoman Newsletter

The challenge of writing a cookbook

Sooner or later, every food writer gets the same suggestion: you should write a cookbook.

I have not written one, and neither had Liz Williams, founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum and a leading culinary figure in New Orleans. She was already an author, and the idea of dealing with recipes simply did not appeal to her.

Then came a project to c…