For my annotated bibliography, I decided to cover unlikely authors of cookbook as my topic. The inspiration came from a birthday present I bought for my sister—a Salvador Dali cookbook; I read somewhere that his book was being republished for the first time in 40 years, and I knew she was fascinated with Dali, so it seemed perfect.

After being assigned the annotated bibliography where the topic could be just about anything regarded food, I thought about the present for my sister and realized it would be a fun and hopefully unique track to follow—unlikely authors of cookbooks.

Luckily, there are plenty of celebrities out there who want to continue their time in the spotlight, so the number of unlikely cookbook authors is not small. The striking authors I came across, to name a few, were Boy George, Dolly Parton, 2Chainz, Chrissy Teigen, and the list goes on. I took it upon myself to simply pick at random, which celebrities whose cookbook I wanted to dive into, and I honestly have to thank good ol’ Salvador Dali for sparking that interest!

As far as texts good and things to actually create the annotated bibliography, I decided to take a different take on the cookbooks; I wanted to focus on the actual books I could get my hands on or access easily, of course, but to avoid spending a lot of money, I decided analyzing reviews on these authors and their cookbooks would be an interesting spin on the project. I plan to focus on the writing style of reviews for these particular authors and how they differ from more expected authors, per se.

I’m hoping that using reviews, I’ll get a wide variety of writing styles and voices. There’s more research to be done, but I’m looking forward to what I find.