This site will never ever become a food blog, because frankly, I am not a fan of the kitchen. I like food, but I am not naturally disposed to write about it; it is much easier for me to find adjectives to describe a great goal than a good hamburger.
The last two weekends, however, I have been making cookies for my husband, my student-employees and my friends because cookies are one of the few things I can make well. So last Sunday I made the immensely talented Sarah Sprague’s chocolate and peanut butter chip and pretzel cookies, this Sunday I made chocolate chip cookies and a dark chocolate and peanut butter cookie with a hint of carmel, and tomorrow on my day off, I’ll make my mom’s chocolate drop cookies (a cookie so famous that my elementary school classmate Raymond would beg me for them while we sat in the #52 School cafeteria, until he got up the nerve to ask my mom, one of the lunchladies, to bring him a batch.)
While I’m baking, I have my netbook open on the countertop, in the area where most people would place the cookbook.
I’m not (always) on Twitter or reading obscure hockey scores from European countries, but using it to display my recipe (because there is no way I can bake without one.) Is this how we will all be cooking 10 years from now? Will a netbook, tablet PC or iPad be installed in every kitchen wall, and will you have all of your cookbooks and recpies on it?
My mother-in-law, an amazing cook (she grew up in the restaurant business), has an entire cabinet of cookbooks in her kitchen, but it can be a pain to figure out what recipe is in which book, and though books often have chapters devided by type of food, you can’t sort recipes by the ingredients you actually have on hand. Digitizing all of these recipes into one electronic database accessible by a tablet PC built into your wall would make cooking amazingly efficent. I might even cook more often.
I’m sure I’m not the only person that has thought of this – some weathly household cook somewhere probably already has remodeled their kitchen for such a thing. Is this where we are heading, or will cookbooks always have a place in our homes and apartments?