1.   Bhide, who lives in Framingham, has a career that is completely unrelated to cookbook writing.

2.   Publishing a collection of favorite recipes is actually the old way of cookbook writing.

3.   The memoirist approach to cookbook writing is winning out.

4.   The writer who practically invented cultural cookbook writing is Paula Wolfert.

5.   This is no less true in cookbook writing than it is in literature or painting or music.