# Cookbook-in-a-Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Novel in a Day\ **Created:** [March 27, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066 "2022-03-27T20:20:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/camy/32/36_2.png) [@Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Camy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/81 "2022-04-09T12:20:04Z")
Oh hell yeah! Please count me in. šŸ˜€ Iā€™ll be doing/cobbling together/baking/burning: Banana Bread. ---
**Author:** ![gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/gr/32/38680_2.png) [@gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/gr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/82 "2022-04-09T12:42:27Z")
> [@Vincent\_Vincent](#): > > Whyā€™s the hat moving like that ? I hear itā€™s all the rayj. ---
**Author:** ![Vincent\_Vincent](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/vincent_vincent/32/19680_2.png) [@Vincent\_Vincent](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Vincent_Vincent)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/83 "2022-04-09T13:17:07Z")
Iā€™m uncultivated. As a writer, I find it of the upmost importance to know as little as possible of the world I live in. And you just ruined it for me. ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/84 "2022-04-09T13:47:42Z")
I luvluvluvluvluv that movieā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/85 "2022-04-09T13:49:15Z")
Speaking of banana bread: if I could afford it, Iā€™ll throw in chocolate chips and walnuts and pecans and, if I also feel cheeky, top off the finished product with icing sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/camy/32/36_2.png) [@Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Camy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/86 "2022-04-09T16:10:00Z")
@thegirlclaudia Nicely scrumptious! Though it wouldnā€™t really be Banana Bread, per se, and the short story would have to be called ā€˜How To Dispose Of An Annoying Diabetic Relation.ā€™ ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/87 "2022-04-09T17:59:05Z")
Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha šŸ˜‚ ---
**Author:** ![gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/gr/32/38680_2.png) [@gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/gr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/88 "2022-04-09T22:10:57Z")
> [@Vincent\_Vincent](#): > > And you just ruined it for me. Youā€™re welcome!! It was the least I could do. ---
**Author:** ![gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/gr/32/38680_2.png) [@gr](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/gr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/89 "2022-04-09T22:13:19Z")
> [@Camy](#): > > and the short story would have to be called ā€˜How To Dispose Of An Annoying Diabetic Relation.ā€™ She does have some near-death payback to exact on Jaysen, so it may all come together in a tidy package. ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/90 "2022-04-09T23:08:23Z")
Except Mrs makes my banana bread with pecans, chocolate chips, and serves with 1/4ā€ cream cheese. Why do you think Iā€™ve had to loose 100lbs? ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/91 "2022-04-10T03:26:12Z")
@gr @Camy @Jaysen I canā€™t resist laughing at what transpired of the methyl alcohol šŸ˜‚ To be honest, I donā€™t drink and there was no physical methyl alcohol. I do think Iā€™m beginning to have a crush on a different journalist K (but itā€™s way too early for me to say ā€œI love youā€) and I only just reached out to him, except that unlike the late GJM, K has a gatekeeper (seriously, a Fortune 500 C-suite exec once wrote that in all his business life ā€œIā€™ve never met a journalist with a gatekeeperā€ so hereā€™s a first) and so Iā€™m a bit angsty to hear back from beyond the red tape. Sometimes Iā€™m so inebriated with his stuff that I stay up at night singing to my imaginary depiction of him, almost dying of lack of sleep. What was I thinking? Congratulating myself on finding loveā€¦ in the future, if and only if I could keep myself from bursting too soon. Anyway, scheduling so that I have my beet greens in order for Yellow Day 2022. šŸ’› ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/92 "2022-04-10T10:59:28Z")
Honesty is over rated when it comes to fiction. Letā€™s not get allow it to get in the way of a good yarn or joke. šŸ˜‰ As to the journalist in question, Iā€™ve no idea the value of a gatekeeper. Which isnā€™t necessarily honest (as I do see the value of someone filtering the Nigerian princes out of my inbox). I prefer the way one of my most admired but not famous executives utilized her gatekeeper. The exec managed the inbox and sent ā€œthis needs an executive level replyā€ to the gatekeeper. The exec replied to low level employees personally and the gatekeeper dealt with upper management. I was lucky enough to to move into the latter group and when I realized how she managed her email I was shocked. When I asked her she said ā€œI get real and honest feedback from the front line this way. The rest of youā€¦ make a better case and convince someone else you really need my input. Youā€™re paid to make the decisions. I donā€™t need to do it for you.ā€ Anywhoā€¦ good luck. You now have us all thinking of chapters we could write for NiaD ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/camy/32/36_2.png) [@Camy](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Camy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/93 "2022-04-10T11:48:35Z")
I have absolutely no idea whatā€™s going onā€¦ which is probably a good thing. Heaven forbid thereā€™s a cult of rabid methanol drinking journalists lurking in the basement of the Cookery Bookā€™s production thread. ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/94 "2022-04-10T12:35:53Z")
> [@Camy](#): > > I have absolutely no idea whatā€™s going onā€¦ This is the theme song to my life. ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/95 "2022-04-10T15:38:45Z")
@camy NiaD variant: Joke-Book-in-a-Day (JBiaD) with plenty of muckrakers guzzling toxic booze trying to make sense of the tips overflowing in their inboxes like some substandard re-enactment of Sherlock Holmes. I have many interesting run-ins with dudes and these near-romance stories make excellent [~~compost~~](https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/844564/funny-movie-about-compost-and-composting) creative fodder. Almost spat out my sip of water rereading the above. > [@Jaysen](#): > > You now have us all thinking of chapters we could write for NiaD ā€¦ Some of us have lives that are larger than life that we draw on under the pleasurable pressure called NiaD. This man K, if you knew his life story and what heā€™s been through, it literally mindf\*\*ks everybody. Sorry for the language. Iā€™m a very nice girl. I cook petite beet greens. ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/96 "2022-04-10T15:57:34Z")
@pigfender Suddenly I remember that when we were doing NiaD, we canā€™t really map the real names to L&L usernames. I wonder if thereā€™s a way to preserve our relative\* anonymity in the CiaD as well? Because in normal NiaD, our real names are the bylines of our respective chapters. But if our real names are by our respective recipes, then we run the risk of unwittingly exposing our identities and I think some of us are not ready for that exposure. Thanks. \* Actually I did some data analysis over all the NiaDā€™s and special NiaD events and was able to map a majority of us to our usernames consistentlyā€¦ especially recurring participants like myself. Itā€™s not hard. An Excel sheet and plenty of time did the heavy lifting for me. ---
**Author:** ![Susan67](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/susan67/32/18936_2.png) [@Susan67](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Susan67)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/97 "2022-04-10T19:02:53Z")
@pigfender Sadly, I donā€™t cook anything worthy of being inside a book - so I think I am going to withdraw my eagerness to be involved. šŸ˜ I look forward to reading the final tho šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jaysen/32/16_2.png) [@Jaysen](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Jaysen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/98 "2022-04-10T19:22:56Z")
> [@Susan67](#): > > Sadly, I donā€™t cook anything worthy of being inside a book May I interject with a contrary view? No one makes anything worthy of being in a book. It is either a facsimile of something made by others or a poor attempt to mass produce a work of art. What IS worth being in a book is the story that accompanies your favorite recipe. That is, in my opinion, the real value of CiaD. A memory whispered in our ears explaining why macaroni and cheese brings tears to your eyes. This is the real recipe. Now piggy will come along and say Iā€™m wrong. Iā€™ll get the dolphins to change his mind. ---
**Author:** ![thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/thegirlclaudia/32/327_2.png) [@thegirlclaudia](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/thegirlclaudia)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/99 "2022-04-11T06:53:00Z")
I used to have a sense that @Jaysen just likes to rum-joke around, but this is gold. This is wisdom. This is [carrot cake](https://leeyieng.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/what-the-carrot-cake-taught-me/). ---
**Author:** ![pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/pigfender/32/41526_2.png) [@pigfender](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/pigfender)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066/100 "2022-04-11T11:01:57Z")
Hey @Susan67 ā€“ yes, I defintiely agree with what Jaysen posted. So much so, Iā€™ll quote it again here: > [@Jaysen](#): > > What IS worth being in a book is the story that accompanies your favorite recipe. That is, in my opinion, the real value of CiaD. A memory whispered in our ears explaining why macaroni and cheese brings tears to your eyes. This is the real recipe. CiaD is about the food _writing_. If youā€™ve ever had an emotional reaction to food, whether the growing, buying, cooking, eating, washing up afterwards, or even a bloody good argument with the person you were at the table with, youā€™ve got a story to tell that weā€™d love to read! šŸ™‚ Iā€™ll take you off the list for now, but let me know if you want back in! [Previous page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066.md?page=4) [Next page](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/cookbook-in-a-day/127066.md?page=6)