成人快手

Who wrote the cook books on your kitchen shelves? For many celebrity chefs, a cook book, or several, is an obvious way to extend their brand. But if they don鈥檛 have the time or the skills to write one, they may hire a ghost writer or co-author to work with them.

It鈥檚 not just writing, the work can involve project management, recipe testing, meeting deadlines and handling some big egos. Sometimes writers are credited on the cover of the book, sometimes in the introduction, sometimes not at all.

In this programme Ruth Alexander meets two people who have worked as ghost writers on cookbooks. JJ Goode lives in New York in the United States; he鈥檚 credited on the cover of many celeb chef cookbooks, and recently won a prestigious James Beard award for the book he wrote with Gregory Gourdet, 鈥楨veryone鈥檚 Table: Global Recipes for Modern Health鈥�. Signe Johansen is a Norwegian American trained chef and food writer living in London; she worked as a ghost writer on cookbooks early in her career before publishing her own, such as 鈥楽olo: The Joy of Cooking for One鈥�.

Presented by Ruth Alexander.

Produced by Beatrice Pickup.

(Image: ghostly-looking open book. Credit: Getty Images/成人快手)