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Alison Roman’s journey to television has had some bumps in the road.
In January 2022, the cookbook authorannounced that she was working on a cooking show with CNN+. Unfortunately, the unnamed series has been indefinitely postponed afterCNN canceled many of their original programming— a decision which also haltedStanley Tucci’s food and travel show,Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.
While the celebrity chef has “faith that it’ll see the light of day one day,” that doesn’t mean she isn’t upset about the delay. “That’s what I spent a lot of 2022 doing, which is frustrating because I felt it was going to come out and everybody would see what I’ve been working on, but now it just looks like I haven’t been working,” she says.
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Since then, Roman has been posting cooking videos onInstagramandYouTubeor sharing recipes in her food-relatednewsletter. She recently released her latest cookbook,Sweet Enough, which is more dessert-focused than her two previous cookbooks,Nothing FancyandDining In.
One of her most popular recipes, acaramelized shallot pastathat was shared onNYT Cookingthree years ago, is still a viral dish thanks in part to TikTok. But despite her recipes' popularity on the platform, the food writer says she doesn’t use TikTok nor does she have plans to join it.
“If I can’t do it well, I don’t want to do it at all. And plenty of people are doing it well,” says Roman. “I can barely manage just to do Instagram. I feel like I’m too old and too late and too busy.”
Plus, Roman cares more about her fans' reception to her cookbooks as a whole rather than individual recipes.
“My only hope for all my books is that the books do well as a whole. I want people to be like, ‘This is a great collection and value all the recipes equally,'” she adds. “I would prefer that than one standout recipe, even if it means never going viral again.”
source: people.com
