Cookbook Love Podcast

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I feature an interview with Marcy Goldman of BetterBaking.com. March collected cookbooks since she was about 8 and started cooking (the Time-Life Good Cook and foods of the World, Joy of Cooking were here go-to's). She always wrote and always cooked/baked and so her interest in cookbooks extends to how food is described...

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Do you love to create recipes and cook for your family and friends? Have you perfected a method to do something that is kitchen or nutrition-related and you want to teach others about it? Could your work in your kitchen be used to guide someone else in their kitchen? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may have...

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I am here to talk to you about an article in the New York Times (October 2, 2019) Would You Write A Cookbook For Next To Nothing? This article leads with a story of a food-blogger whose first publishing contract involved a very short deadline, no advance, and a non-disclosure agreement. When I first read the article I fe...

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I'm excited to talk to you about cookbooks from "a place". This episode is inspired by a recent cookbook purchase about a restaurant The Noma Guide to Fermentation .  In Episode 50 I interviewed the co-founder of Cookbook Village Wendy Guerrin, and in that episode, Wendy talked about her love of vintage restaurant cookbo...

Do you struggle with regular content creation? Do you start strong with a good idea for a book, blog, or newsletter, but then fizzle out and lack consistency in the producing of the blog posts, newsletters, or cookbooks? Marketing yourself and your business require a strategy to build a relationship with your audience. Be it your future customers, current clients, possible publishers, or your idea...

Writing a cookbook demands a lot of time and energy. You work hard, you write your manuscript, and then after months of editing, design, and production your book lands in your hand. There's not much else like it in the world, with the exception of delivering a baby. Some people even refer to writing a book as a gestation time and then say they've given "birth" to a book.   So what do I wish someon...

Hello and today on the podcast I talk about recipe copyright laws. First, congratulations to Lisa Goldstein of @cookinglikeImeanit. She was the winner of our Celebrate The Cookbook Love Podcast Contest for our first anniversary. Lisa is a supporter of the show, was a guest on Episode 9 (I incorrectly said Episode 2 in the show recording!), and I'm thrilled she won the content. Thank you, Lisa.   ...

Hello and welcome to year two of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Thanks for everyone who tunes in on a regular basis as we celebrate cookbook readers, buyers, writers, collectors, and clubs. Todays' episode is all about mastermind: what is one and why might you join one. Plus there's still time to enter the Celebrate the Cookbook Love Podcast Contest and have a chance to win a package of 5 cookbooks (o...

Welcome to the end of year one of the Cookbook Love Podcast! It's been a great year and a year of learning and growing as a podcaster. My original goal was to celebrate Cookbook Love and we have done just that with interviews related to cookbook reading, buying, writing, collecting, and clubbing!  Today we celebrate with a look back at the top 10 most popular episodes for the podcast and a contest...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I'm excited to share an interview with cookbook collector, reader, and author, Ally Lazare. Ally as a young child loved to feel her way around in the kitchen because she was allowed to experiment with food and cooking. As a result, she fell in love with the science, process, artistry, and creativeness of cooking and baking. A...

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I am excited to interview Wendy Guerin. Wendy is the co-founder of an online collectible cookbook store called Cookbook Village. In business for over 10 years, Cookbook Village specializes in collectible cookbooks from Junior League and community cookbooks to autographed and restaurant cookbooks. In our interview, Wendy and I...

Today I feature an interview with cookbook collector Linda Soper-Kolton. Linda is a health coach, vegan chef, and runs the culinary program at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary. She is the author of Compassionate Cuisine, a book written for the benefit of the animal sanctuary. As a lifelong foodie, Linda built her cookbook collection via mail-order cookbook clubs. Linda attributes her love of cookbook...

As a lover of planners, notebooks, pens, setting goals and making plans, today interview is with the owner and founder of 90 x Goal Planner, Alon David.  Alon arrived in America without any business leads connections. He had no university network or promising internships. Alon didn't even have a solid business idea. But he did have ambition. And he had drive. He had the dream to make something of...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today we are talking about the Cost of Writing a Cookbook. One of the objections people often have to writing a cookbook is the cost (or money). Truth be told, as a traditionally published cookbook author, I incurred very few direct costs when I wrote my cookbooks. In fact, publishers paid me an advance and royalties when my advance ear...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. This is the first in a series I decided to call Search Your Collection. Today I want to talk about Endsheets. Endsheets, also know as endpapers, or ends, are the pages at the beginning and of a hardcover book that are used to glue the inside pages (known as the book block) to the hardcover of the book.  Decorated end sheets, while not v...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast, today I'm excited to share an interview with Sherry Coleman Collins. Sherry is a fellow Registered Dietitian and lives in Marietta, Georgia. She is an avid cookbook collector, reader, and user, and if my memory serves me correctly, she is the first podcast guest that limits her cookbook collection to a specific number of books due to sh...

Hello and Happy 4th of July. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today we are talking about barbecue! Barbecue and July 4th go hand in hand. On this episode of the podcast I talk about how our family is connected to a long-standing barbecue tradition, the difference between grilling and barbecue, some favorite barbecue cookbooks in my collections, and a recipe for Sweet Bourbon Baked Beans...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast, today I am excited to talk to you about 2019 Food Trends and Cookbooks. I was recently involved in a research project to take a look at Health and Culinary Trends for a trends report. I have always enjoyed looking at food trends, and in particular how foods and trends in cooking or food make it into the mainstream. This happened with ci...

  Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. In this episode of the podcast, I discuss the difference between cookbook writing and cookbook publishing. Cookbook writing is a solitary act and involves a person writing a book around a single topic. They think of an idea, they decide who they can help or who their ideal reader is, and they create content for the book. Then they wor...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. This episode was inspired by a letter that I received from a listener about how to start a cookbook club in her neighborhood. In this episode, I read the communication from the listener, and provide tips on starting your own cookbook club. Things We Mention In This Episode:   Episode 8 with The Cookbook Club and Judy O'Dwyer Episode 20...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. After last week's podcast with Monica Llamas, I was invited to submit my top 10 cookbooks for the 1000 Cookbooks Project. The 1000 Cookbook project is building a comprehensive and curated collection of the very best food and recipe content. Their goal with the project is "to help people discover books and recipes which will help them bu...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I'm excited to welcome back Monique Llamas. Since we spoke with Monique on Episode 4, Monique has a new role as the Community Manager for ckbk. As the Community Manager, Monique manages ckbk's presence on social media channels Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Monique also tells us more about Ckbk. Ckbk offers free and...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. I'm excited to be sharing this new episode with you. I record a podcast episode every week and have done so since September. I want to first say that I'm so excited I jumped into this space to celebrate cookbook readers, buyers, collectors, writers, and clubs. Not many other podcasts are celebrating you. My journey with cookbooks starte...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today's episode was inspired by a Mother's Day meal we shared with our son and his girlfriend. They both work at high-end restaurants in Cincinnati. It's not uncommon that when we get together we talk about the restaurant and their favorite dishes on the menu. The conversation recently turned to a cold sliced pork dish with tuna sauce....

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today's episode was a lot of fun as I interview Chris Taylor and Paul Arguin. Chris and Paul are cookbook collectors. They are scientists by trade, and one day, about 10 years ago they decided to enter an amateur pie competition. Chris' Lemon Strawberry Pie won 1st place, and from there, they have been on a journey of pie, culminating i...