Cookbook Love Podcast

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. One question I get asked frequently about cookbook writing is, "Is it worth it?" The cost of writing a cookbook could be broken down into the number of hours spent on the project and the money earned reduced to a dollars/hour amount, but what's always missing from a discussion like that are the valuable, intangible benefits of writing a cookbook. To dive...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Over the past few weeks, I've spent time talking to Food and Nutrition Experts and Food Bloggers who want to write a cookbook. Many of them told me that they feel all over the place. When we feel all over the place, it's typically because our thoughts are all over the place. So in today's episode, I want to break down some ways to rein in your thoughts ab...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. In today's podcast, I am going to talk about commitment and how that very often can feel terrible. Join in for today's episode as I discuss commitment, planning, feeling terrible, and how we can move forward with our dream project like a cookbook.  Things We Mention In This Episode: Looking for 10 Food & Nutrition Experts who want to get paid to write a c...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. First, a sad note to recognize the death of cookbook author and writer Julia Reed. Julia died from cancer at the end of August in Newport, Rhode Island. She was 59. Her books and articles were a joy to read. Which brings me to the topic of this show - cookbooks and food books I love to read. See the links below and listen in as I discuss some of my favori...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast I discuss the differences between cookbook coaches and cookbook agents. There is a role for both coaches and agents in the writing landscape, just like in sports.  Coaches are paid by the writer upfront for their coaching sessions, programs, or services. Cookbook coaches help writers: Achieve their dream of writing a cookbook Refine t...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I'm excited to have an interview with Patricia Greenberg. Patricia is a best-selling cookbook author, dietitian, chef, fitness expert, wife and mom. In her work with Fitness Gourmet Patricia is ushering in a new era of bite-sized livable health, nutrition and fitness solutions. The Fitness Gourmet is a wellness consulting firm that specializes in te...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I want to talk about the difference between cookbook printing and cookbook publishing. Many of my students and those I talk to about writing cookbooks, start to look for cookbook publishers. But some are not clear in the understanding of what a cookbook printer does and what a publisher does. So today I thought I'd talk a little bit about that. Prin...

Writing a cookbook should not be a mysterious process. Also, writing a cookbook is not a project available only to celebrities and TV stars. If you have a passion for baking, nutrition, special diets, or cooking, and you have an audience who needs something you know about, then you can write a cookbook. Based on my experience with both my own and other author's cookbook projects I'd like to dispel...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. With the beginning of the school year, I wanted to talk about 20 things we can do to start the school year - to learn something new and grow into a new project or create a new habit.  Give yourself some time to complete this exercise. This is the kind of stuff I like to reflect on as I embark on a new school year. I hope you enjoy this reflection. Write d...

When we have a question the first thing many of us do is turn to Google. Google will tell us the answer. Google is amazing, but for finding answers that will help us grow and expand, we have to turn to our brains. My business coach teaches that the secret to anything "better" is better questions - the type of question that inspires high-quality results. When I ask my brain questions I jot the answ...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today is episode 100! The plan for today's show is to list for you 100 "things" to love about cookbooks. So enjoy this episode as I run though features, people, topics, and more - all components of a cookbook that I love. Recipes Stories History lessons Illustration Photographs Ingredient discovery How to use ingredients Techniques Flavor building Boxed t...

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I want to talk about writing food memoirs. One of my private coaching clients is discerning the format of the food/cooking book she wants to write. Part of her wants to write a memoir and part of her a cookbook. One would be more story-driven, and the other more recipe-driven. She was then questioned whether she needed to write a book proposal for a...

Applications are now open to join the September 2020 Hungry for a Cookbook Mastermind. I started running Hungry for a Cookbook in 2017 and since then have had over 50 cookbook writers go through the mastermind. As a result of the mastermind,  have been defined, businesses built, proposals written, agents retained, publishers signed, manuscripts written, and cookbooks published. Here's what Jack Ca...

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I want to talk about the anatomy of a cookbook project. I think if you've tuned in to the past several episodes of the podcast, Behind The Scenes of a Cookbook…., you can see that there are many people involved in the production or "publishing" of a cookbook. And whether the cookbook is self- or traditionally- published,...

Today on the podcast I'm excited to continue our Behind The Scenes of a Cookbook Series with Barbara Scott Goodman. She has worked as an Art Director and designer of many cookbooks. Her work includes creating cover and interior design concepts, page and typography design, and their execution through all phases of production. She also organizes and supervises photo shoots, working with photographer...

Today on the podcast I'm excited to continue our Behind The Scenes of a Cookbook Series with Cynthia Nims.  Cynthia is a Cookbook Author, Freelance Food and Travel Writer, and former managing editor of Simply Seafood magazine. Cynthia believes that there's a great deal of value in a well-written recipe. Beyond a reliable outcome, solid recipes build trust in the cookbook author and reflect their s...

Today on the podcast I'm excited to interview Jessica Brand. Jessica is a professional graphic designer and website designer. She loves cooking and hosting and is always trying new recipes, tinkering with various ingredients, and learning from my mistakes. When visiting bookstores, the first area she would head to is the cookbook section. Being a graphic designer, she was drawn to beautiful covers...

Ashley Strickland Freeman is an award-winning food stylist, recipe developer and tester, author, and editor. She grew up in Savannah, Georgia, and realized her passion for food and cooking at a very young age. After receiving a degree in Journalism from The University of Georgia and a degree in Culinary Arts from The French Culinary Institute in New York,  she moved to Birmingham, Alabama where sh...

Jackie Alpers is an award-winning professional food photographer based in Tuscon, AZ. Jackie cooks, styles and photographs food and recipes in her natural-light studio and documents food & travel on location. Her popular food photography and recipe blog " Jackie's Happy Plate " showcases her culinary adventures as a Midwesterner transplanted to the Sonoran Desert. She is especially interested in t...

Welcome back to another Behind The Scenes of a Cookbook episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Mardi Balgochian. Mardi is a  French-trained pâtissière, recipe tester and cookbook editor. She has degrees in English and Communications, and her professional experience is in corporate communications where she worked in defense, energy, food & beverage, and biot...

Welcome back to another Behind The Scenes of a Cookbook episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Denise Vivaldo. Denise is a   seasoned food professional with over 30 years of experience. She is the author of eight books including The Food Styling Handbook, winner of numerous awards, considered to be the food styling bible, and now in its 2nd edition. In addi...

Welcome back to another Behind The Scenes of a Cookbook episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Suzanne Fass. Suzanne is truly behind the scenes of cookbook production with her work as a copy-editor, proofer, and indexer. While her work may just land her name in the Acknowledgements section of a cookbook, Suzanne's hand has touched the manuscripts and design...

Welcome back to another Behind The Scenes of a Cookbook episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Deutsch. John directs the Food Lab at Drexel University. In this episode, Jon talks about how to develop a recipe, the difference between recipe development and testing, the way to test a  recipe, and the benefits the Food Lab offers to the authors of the cook...

Hi and welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today I feature an interview with Lucy Seligman. Lucy is a lover of all things Japanese. She is an expert in Japanese cooking. Lucy lived in Japan for over 10 years and during that time was a restaurant critic, a food historian, and writer, the editor of Gochiso-sama!—her culinary newsletter on Japanese cuisine, and the owner of her own cookin...

Hi and welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today I feature an interview with Judi Leib. Judi has been in love with food and cooking for as long as she can remember. She is a 1985 graduate of The Restaurant School in Philadelphia and after her graduation worked at every end of the food business from the front of the house to the back of the house and hotels and catering. When her childr...