There are two highly anticipated new cookbooks that won’t be troubling Pinch of Nom’s position at the top of the charts any time soon – after they sank to the bottom of the ocean.
New copies of Mason Hereford’s Turkey and the Wolf, which collects recipes from Hereford’s award-winning New Orleans restaurant, and Melissa Clark’s one-pot cookbook Dinner in One, were being transported on cargo ship The Madrid Bridge, which lost around 60 containers overboard in the mid-Atlantic earlier this month.
Sharing the news with his would-be readers, Hereford appeared to be taking the loss in good spirits, describing it as “perhaps the most hilariously 2022 thing to happen yet this year”.
“There was a container collapse on the cargo ship that contained the Turkey and the Wolf books. The good news is that there were no critical injuries, as can happen in these situations. But the bad news is the books might be in a cargo container at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean,” said Hereford on Instagram.
The new release date for Hereford’s cookbook, which contains recipes including “potato chip–loaded fried bologna sandwiches, deviled-egg tostadas with salsa macha, and his mom’s burnt tomato casserole”, is 21 June. The title had originally been due out in February.
Clark’s Dinner in One, featuring recipes for Miso-Glazed Salmon with Roasted Sugar Snap Peas, Cheesy Meatball Parm with Spinach and Cheaters Chicken and Dumplings, is also currently residing at the bottom of the ocean, and is thus also delayed, in Clark’s case until 6 September.
“There was a maritime storm. Containers were crushed, some fell overboard. My cookbook, along with@turkeyandthewolf’s cookbook, is MIA on the wine-dark sea,” wrote Clark on Instagram. “I like to think that if the books are at the bottom of the ocean, they’re teaching whole schools of fish some very tasty recipes. Poseidon and his nereids are dining in style.”
She also appeared sanguine about the disappearance of her book, joking: “I’m wrecked about this (ha), and SO impatient to get these one-pot recipes into your hands. Sigh. Glub, glub.”
