Julia Skinner

1 week ago | thisismold.com | Julia Skinner

This is the final piece of Wayfinding, a series on the history and design of cookbooks. The history of cookbooks sprinkles its guideposts across many disciplines and avenues for inquiry—from medicine, travel, alchemy to agriculture and beyond. By following the path of cookbook history, we necessarily spread our attention in many directions, and examine food from many angles. The future of cookbooks asks this of us, too.

3 weeks ago | thisismold.com | Julia Skinner

This is the third part of Wayfinding, a series on the history and design of cookbooks. I’m sitting on the floor of my office, sorting my family’s recipe cards into folders. A former archivist, it’s important to me that these are preserved long-term, which means buffered archival folders and boxes. Recipe cards are ephemeral: due in part to their acidic cardstock and in part to the limited cultural value assigned to them.

Mar 15, 2025 | thecookscook.com | Keith Sarasin |Julia Skinner |Diane Zatz |Denise Landis

Share: Posted on: 03-2025 When I was about nine, my mother introduced the “end of week” cooking approach.

Feb 19, 2025 | newsletter.wordloaf.org | Anne Byrn |Andrew Janjigian |Lisa Donovan |Julia Skinner

America’s Test Kitchen recently published When Southern Women Cook, a tribute to the vast contributions that Southern women have made to American foodways. It was created and edited by Toni-Tipton Martin and my friend Morgan Bolling, both of whom are from the South themselves.

Jan 16, 2025 | businessinsider.com | Julia Skinner

Real Estate When I took a trip to Ireland, I found my husband and eventually bought a house there. Julia Skinner This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . After booking a trip to Ireland on a whim, I fell in love with the country and also met my husband. Years later, we're still together, and we've made a new life for ourselves in Cork.