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“[Failure food] is just comfort food to remind you that, ‘oh, nobody’s perfect. There’s cheese so just do cheese,” Johnson said, to wails of approval from a nearby roommate, who’s thrice made the book’s soon-to-be-notorious three-cheese mac & cheese.
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Stupid Good: adj/v/n When something is so good, it’s just nonsense.

My name is Rachel Johnson. I’m ‘stupid good’ at photography, design and food. I’m an aspiring cookbook editor and magazine publisher and I’m about to start my senior year at FSU studying Graphic Design. I am currently working on my first eCookbook, Stupid Good: A Shut Up and Cook Book, available for free download this fall.

Check out my various projects and work samples using the tabs above. I am currently working on my first cookbook, Stupid Good: A Shut Up and Cook Book, available Spring 2014. Check back for updates and follow me on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for more.
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HOME .. ABOUT ME .. BLOG .. STUPID GOOD: A SHUT UP AND COOK BOOK .. DESIGN .. FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY

Stupid Good: A Shut Up and Cook Book

I believe learning how to cook and exploring food is the best way to cut down on your Taco Bell bill, take ownership of your health and make some real friends with whom you can brunch. Stupid Good: A Shut Up and Cook Book is a cookbook that tells you what’s what: it’s time to just shut up and cook.

This eCookbook features over 30 recipes and tips for everyone from the ramen noodle ramblers to the “I own a cookie sheet!” hopefuls. Find recipes for easy entrees, dips and appetizers, desserts, cheese and more. For real, there’s a whole section on cheese. From one small kitchen to another, you can be sure that these recipes are perfect for your college wallet and schedule.

Available for free download March 2014.
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Aspiring cookbook editor, amateur dog mom, master foodstagrammer. Can also make a mean cheesecake.

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Rachel Johnson’s free eCookbook ‘Stupid Good: A Shut Up and Cook Book’ contains practical recipes that anyone can do, including but not limited to: ‘bitchy bites and sassy snacks’ and ‘forever alone favorites.’ / Ondrej Pazdirek / FSView

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Rachel Johnson’s eCookbook

Feb. 16, 2014 |

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We may not always feel like winners, but Rachel Johnson is pretty sure that finding comfort in our erring ways may be as easy as a walk to the kitchen stove.

Her upcoming, free eCookbook and honors thesis, Stupid Good: A Shut Up and Cook Book, out March 31, compiles edible prescriptions for failure, loneliness and in the case of one of her favorite sections (‘dinners that will get you laid’), the desire to cook for new people and bond over resulting “impressive dinners that look like you spent a long time on them,” both activities in which, “you act like you know what you’re doing,” Johnson said.

A product of everyday life, Stupid Good came about after Johnson, realizing that she preferred the casual, friendly candor in cooking with friends, saw an opportunity to put forth a kind of cookbook that speaks specifically to female millennial sensibilities, in a humorous, relatable vernacular. The formal, hyper-masculine Iron Chef elitism of many popular recipe books, she realized, need not apply to her own.

“In most books, everyone speaks to you as if, ‘Oh, I went to culinary school; I’m Mario Batali,’ but I didn’t go to culinary school, and I’m just somebody like you who can do things anybody can do,” Johnson said of her free-wheeling approach. Indeed, it is hard to envision the cocky patriarchs of food media including sections like “bitchy bites & sassy snacks” in their own cookbooks.

Practical recipes and self-deprecatory names, including the Stupid Good title itself, aim to strike a tone uncommon or unfamiliar to the culinary world.

While Stupid Good may cater to a demographic that is ‘food-stupid,’ via “food that’s just so good that it’s stupid,” Johnson contends that she’s not trying to be insulting. In the spirit of Generations X and Y, it’s a mere matter of self-deprecation.

Much of this tongue-in-cheek self-loathing takes place in the titling of each section. Such is the case with alliterative zingers ‘forever alone favorites’ and ‘failure food: cheese edition,’ with the ‘stupid good’ logic applying to the latter in particular:

“[Failure food] is just comfort food to remind you that, ‘oh, nobody’s perfect. There’s cheese so just do cheese,” Johnson said, to wails of approval from a nearby roommate, who’s thrice made the book’s soon-to-be-notorious three-cheese mac & cheese.

The recipe is among over 30 featured alongside tips, descriptions and Johnson’s own photography. Geared towards a full range of amateurs and food-lovers “from the ramen noodle ramblers to the ‘I own a cookie sheet!’ hopefuls,” this Shut Up and Cook Book contains recipes not only for cheese, but also, as her website puts it, “easy entrees, dips and appetizers and desserts.”

Sensitive to “your college wallet and schedule,” preparation of these deceptively simple recipes demands very little time or hardware, and while some are more labor intensive than others, Johnson designed the recipes so that “the most unusual piece of equipment is like, a mini muffin tin” or “maybe a food processor but more likely a blender,” Johnson said.

“I don’t ask for things like a mandolin, or say, a cheesecloth or something stupid that people just don’t have.”
The democratizing effect of these very basic requirements perhaps draws on inspiration she received from a former employer, the late television chef and best selling cookbook author Art Ginsberg (aka Mr. Food), for whom she began taking photos in 2011. Ginsberg’s ‘anybody can do it’ philosophy of cooking is apparent in the Stupid Good author’s own outlook.

“It was the first time I thought of food as a career. It was just a really foreign concept to me at the time,” Johnson said.

Despite her overall love and knack for the culinary arts, Johnson’s preference and expertise lies in photographing and arranging the food – logical and convenient given that she graduates from FSU at the semester’s end with honors in photography.

The reason behind her inclination to photograph food as opposed to most sentient life, summed up in a sentence: “It doesn’t talk.”
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Graduation is an exciting time, but many students are left wondering what to do after they get their degree. / Francesca Urcuyo / FSView

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Feb. 16, 2014 |

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Moving toward the end of my collegiate career and getting older, once a glimmer of a potentially bright future, is now seemingly akin to being thrown into the wild without a survival kit.

Everyone will tell you that the one thing you need to be successful is a college degree and everything will just fall into line. While that maybe true for the STEM degree students, what happens when kids like me who major in International Affairs in order to see the world, get put into the job jungle.

I haven’t gone to school for four years to learn how to get a job, I’ve spent four years chasing an embossed piece of construction paper. Granted, that piece of paper is also the admissions ticket into any job interview, but it troubles me that kids with liberal arts degrees will be twisting in the wind come graduation time because they followed their heart learning about something they found compelling. It really is a shame.

I personally have taken any opportunity I’ve had to try and develop some semblance of work experience, and even then my resume reads like an a la carte menu. It’s truly frustrating. This IA program I’m in at FSU gives me no real-world sense of anything international. What I have thus far is an understanding of Asia’s history and Hitler’s rise to power; it’s interesting, but who hires that?

I wish we could get away from this notion that college is the first step into the job market. Why can’t college be that time of your life where you finally, after 12+ years of schooling, get to pick what you’re dying to learn and learn it. After that you not only have that knowledge to bring with you along with a diploma that says you can devote four years to something, but you also have a better understanding of a subject you find interesting.

After that, then kids can go out and do apprenticeships and that’s not to mean with plumbers or blacksmiths (Not to say they both aren’t noble professions, because they are) but to a field that interests them. I would be willing to debate that a student who works at a marketing firm for four years would have a serious leg up on a kid coming out with his marketing degree.

The reason I say that is because as soon as degree boy comes in, they have to learn the ins and outs of the company just like anyone else, and you’re automatically investing more time into this kid than your other employee.

I’m not saying degrees aren’t helpful, I’m merely asking, are they as necessary as we once believed? 20 years ago if you had a bachelor’s, you couldnt walk down the street without being offered a couple jobs, but with the rate of degree inflation we have to reevaluate. Kids now have to have had two years work experience and a degree to have a decent chance at a well paying position. Trying to have a full time job while in school is not easy or honestly realistic.

My point is, American society and its education system need to realize that not every single high schooler needs to go to college to be successful or productive. Trade schools and community colleges serve a very useful purpose but those schools aren’t “real” schools to the majority of this country anymore. I mean seriously, if you told your parent you wanted to skip college to get a leg up on the job market they’d scoff at you, as would employers, but why? You want on the job training so you can be good at your profession, what does a degree have to do with that?

This is not to persuade people to drop out, but rather to encourage us to all look at the road ahead and hopefully make changes for the future, so the next generation doesn’t have to walk into the proverbial crossfire we do.
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