4 reasons why books on food are popular
Food is the fuel for life. Nobody loves to skip food by choice. Of course, this does not include people on various diets but food lovers. Food is the essence of every human being and that’s why #FoodPorn is one of the most popular hashtags always trending. To document food experiences, books came into existence and slowly the narrative rose from recipes to remembrance of loved ones and ultimately to the stories behind recipes. Let’s catch up on 4 things that make books on food so popular.
Metamorphic Association
Food lovers love eating but they also enjoy reading descriptions that are metamorphic in nature. When authors compare their ingredients with different kinds of smells and guess the taste of dishes, it automatically intrigues the reader to order or make the recipe at that moment only. That’s how books on food capture smell, taste, strong emotions and keen memories.
Cultural stories
Food originates from its culture and the ingredients give an identity to the place of its origin. Every city has a special taste and a story to narrate to its future generations. Today, books on food are more than cookbooks that used to contain only recipes. Now the recipe has a story of its curation, the reason behind its existence and its popularity among civilians.
Guilty Indulgences
Food is meant to be eaten. The purpose of these books on food is achieved when readers research their favourite dish and find other interesting facts about the aroma, dressing and plating. They are automatically driven towards the stories of their making, picking up each ingredient with care and the value each ingredient adds to the final dish.
Including all of the above, you are going to make the dish, plate it smartly and eat it peacefully.
Legacy to take forward
Reading so much about a place, its people, their food preferences and ultimately their love for food, you reach a time in life when you make stories of what you cook. Everybody may not be an author of books on food but you can be a food lover.
That’s how the legacy of your food choices is forwarded to your generation. When parents tell their children about a dish prepared in their house because their ancestors used to make it for decades, that recipe carries the weight of traditions, stories of time and relevance of taste in modern times.
Now, it’s your turn to tell us about your favourite books on food and let your audience add a touch of their experience to them when they finally try them out.
