There have been a flurry of conversations lately around the ticklish position of being a cookbook ghostwriter. It began with Julia Moskin at the NYT, and was followed by responses that were indignant and solidaristic in turn: Gwyneth Paltrow and Sari Botton among others. Yet food and spectres would seem to go hand in hand—nostalgia, sensory inscriptions, and above all, family. Memory has a taste—one that can, as it turns out, be manufactured, marketed and preened to perfection. (via elsewhere on the internet ii | thestate)