Today is a jam-packed episode as I welcome back for her 2nd interview, Jenny Hartin, of The Cookbook Junkies and publicity director for Eat Your Books.  Today in our conversation, Jenny and I discuss what’s on the horizon for cookbooks in 2019 and new books Jenny’s excited about including Gnocchi Solo Gnocchi and The New Pie. We also discuss the work done by Eat Your Books in their Best of the best cookbooks list for 2018, as well as the upcoming revision of the classic dessert cookbook The Last Course by Claudia Fleming, pastry chef at Gramercy Tavern. The Last Course, as a used book commands over $80/copy, so the new revision is highly anticipated as a way to access this classic book at a lower price point. Jenny and I also discuss cookbook award programs, including how books are submitted to these awards, and how the books are judged, and the method that Eat Your Books uses to look at book sales for their yearly cookbook popularity lists. One last topic we discuss is an article in the Washington Post about Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines. This book sold over 1M copies but didn’t make the “Best of 2018” list published by WashPo. How does this happen that over 1M people buy the book, and presumably like the book, but the WashPo doesn’t give it any kudos on their lists?   Things We Mention In This Episode: Free Masterclass 6 Practices of a Published Cookbook Author Eat Your Books Digital Books Preview Feature Gnocchi Solo Gnocchi by Christine Hickman Gnocchi Solo Gnocchi Review on Eat Your Books The New Pie on Eat Your Books   What’s on the horizon for cookbooks in 2019 Cookbook Awards Gourmand Book Awards IACP Cookbook Awards James Beard Cookbook Awards   Join the waitlist for the next opening of the Cookbook Writers Academy Download checklist for first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook” Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron

Today on the podcast I talk about recipe headnotes. Recipe headnotes are an optional part of a recipe and their appearance determined by the recipe-writing style of the author or the publisher. (To learn more about recipe-writing style you may enjoy listening to Episode 11). But, for many of the reasons I’ll discuss today, cookbook lovers and cooks in general love recipe headnotes. They add personality and liven up the writing in a cookbook. It’s up to an author if they want to use headnotes in their cookbook, as well as what information an author wants to include in a headnote, but there are many items that can be covered with a recipe headnote:   Introduces a recipe Draws the reader into the recipe Lends personality to the recipe Alerts the cook to special ingredients or techniques Provides tips on preparation or presentation Acknowledges a source of recipe inspiration or gives attribution Gives recipe history or origin Helps the cook envision the dish Provides serving tips Discusses ingredients in the recipe Things We Mention In This Episode:   Recipes into Type by Joan Whitman and Dolores Simon The Recipe Writer’s Handbook by Barbara Gibbs Ostmann and Jane L. Baker Podcast Episode 11: Take a Look at Recipe-writing Style  Join the waitlist for the next opening of the Cookbook Writers Academy Download checklist for first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook”   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron

Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. As we know cookbooks come in all shapes, sizes, formats, and publication routes. Today on this solo show episode of the podcast, I discuss why people write cookbooks and who they write them for. Chefs, dietitians, bakers, and cooks may have a desire to write a cookbook, but they each have their own reasons for wanting to do so. The reasons may include to share expertise, impart knowledge, teach a skill, inform about a cuisine, promote a business, and many more. As a cookbook collector, it’s sometimes fun to think about why an author wrote his or her book and to try to identify the audience for the book. While the reasons to write are varied, and an audience diverse, I believe that it’s important to remember that the judgment of a cookbook, in the end, belongs to the reader and user, as they answer the question if the author delivered on his or her promise of the book. Things We Mention In This Episode:   Podcast Episode: 5 Myths About Writing a Cookbook Join the waitlist for the next opening of the Cookbook Writers Academy Download checklist for first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook”   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron

Welcome back to another episode of the podcast. Today I feature a solo show based on a blog post where I covered what I consider to be the myths many believe about writing a cookbook. My goal is to fan into a flame the spark of cookbook writing interest if you want to write a cookbook, but perhaps believed any of these myths. In this episode, I talk about each myth and how an aspiring cookbook writer can use these myths to their advantage and get started on a cookbook project of their own. Myth #1: I need to have a successful food blog before I write a cookbook. Myth #2: I cannot write a book because someone has already written about my topic. Myth #3: I must have my cookbook published by a major publisher. Myth #4: I do not know enough to write a cookbook. Myth #5: I need to know how to photograph food and design my own book pages before I write a cookbook. Things We Mention In This Episode:   Blog post 5 Myths About Writing a Cookbook Join the waitlist for the next opening of the Cookbook Writers Academy Download checklist for first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook”   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today on the podcast, I’m featuring an interview Cookbook Collector and author of The Book Club CookBook Judy Gelman. This is a unique episode for the podcast in that I haven’t to this date interviewed a traditionally published cookbook author. The goal of the podcast is to talk to and share stories with cookbook readers, buyers, collectors, and clubs, and so far for the first 20 episodes, I’ve done just that. But the book I feature today intrigued me, so I reached out to coauthors of the BookClub Cookbook Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp about an interview. The Book Club CookBook explores the connection between books and food in their own book clubs. Judy and Vicky, we were both intrigued by the idea of pairing books and food, and they found that food and cooking is often a fun and interesting part of book club meetings. In this interview, Judy and I discuss her tips of starting a book club, finding an agent for a cookbook project, and her mid-century cookbook collection, inspired by her work on The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook. Things We Mention In This Episode:   Connect with Judy and Vicky: The Book Club Cookbook Join the waitlist for the next opening of the Cookbook Writers Academy Download checklist for first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook”   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron  

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today on the podcast I have a fun interview with Lisa Trent. Lisa lives in NJ and works at the Ridgewood Public Library. At the library, Lisa organizes and maintains The Cookbook Club. The Cookbook Club meets about once a month on Wednesdays. Lisa chooses a cookbook, and then after registering for the event, Lisa obtain copies of the cookbook from their own collection, or on intra-library loan. On the night of the club, registrants prepare a recipe from the book, gather to sample the food, and discuss the cookbook. In this interview, Lisa also discusses how the library “weeds” out cookbooks from their collection, sells used cookbooks to their patrons, and her thoughts on trends in cookbooks from her work in the library.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I feature our first interview for 2019 with Laurie Bakke. Laurie lives in Hendersonville, NC, a city about 30 miles south of Ashville. It’s safe to say that Laurie’s life has been immersed in food, cooking, and cookbooks. Laurie’s mother, a self-taught cook with a garden, inspired Laurie’s career in fresh and flavorful cooking. After graduation from culinary school and a stent at Highland Lake Inn, where Laurie cooked from the inn’s organic garden, Laurie ventured into a world of fresh, seasonal cooking where she ran the show. Laurie opened her own cafe, Cafe Laurie, and then a  kitchen store and wine cellar, Sage Gourmet. As you will hear Laurie say in our interview, anyone can make food taste good with cream and butter, but in her cafe and the subsequent wine dinners at the shop, Laurie leaned on her love of from scratch cooking with, fresh seasonal ingredients, and her cookbook collection, to inform her menus, soups, salads, hot entrees, and desserts. In fact, when Laurie sold Cafe Laurie, she left some of her cookbooks behind for the next owners. Laurie has since self-published her own cookbook and tends to her cookbook collection of over 1000 cookbooks. Laurie loves cookbooks to keep up with cutting-edge ingredients and techniques, to plot her next cookbook club meeting for the Adventure Cooks, and or for her next cookbook writing project. Things We Mention In This Episode: Laurie’s Lavender Shortbread Cookies Laurie’s favorite books for pairing food and wine   The Food Lovers Guide to Wine What to Drink with What You Eat Perfect Pairings Wine Bites Join the waitlist for the next opening of the Cookbook Writers Academy Download checklist for first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook”   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group   Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron    

Happy New Year! Welcome to our first episode of 2019. For me in business, 2019 is all about transforming cooks and bakers into confident cookbook writers. Becoming a cookbook writer is not about publishing, at least in the initial stage of writing a cookbook. To become a cookbook writer, every writer must first encounter themselves, their time, and others. Enjoy this episode where I share my 7 Steps to Becoming a Cookbook Writer, as well as an invitation to become a founding member of the Cookbook Writers Academy. Things We Mention In This Episode:   Join the Cookbook Writers Academy Download my checklist for aspiring first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook”   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group   Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron    

Welcome back to our final episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast for 2018! Today I feature an interview with Cookbook Collector and Food Librarian Sara Bir. Sara has a great love for cookbooks and this began as a child when she used her mom’s cookbooks to “make messes in the kitchen.” Sara went on to attend the Culinary Institute of America because she wanted to write about food. Sara describes herself as a cookbook reader and collector and believes that cookbooks have made her who she is today. In our interview, we talk about a variety of topics including her collection of cookbooks from the 1950s-1980s as well as resources available online and through your public library for those who love food history and research just like Sara does. Listen to Episode 17 below: iTunes or the Apple Podcast App Stitcher Google Music Play Spotify Things We Mention In This Episode: Culinary Pamphlets Online:A collection of promotional recipe pamphlets from the 1930s-1960s. Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook ProjectThe Feeding America project has created an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes page images of 76 cookbooks from the MSU Library's collection as well as searchable full-text Food Timeline:An interactive timeline of the history of food on earth. The interface is very basic, but the scope is massive. Librarian Lynne Oliver runs this, using a lot of her own cookbook and cookery book collection. JSTOR:Thousands of full-text academic journals, papers, magazines, and books. This one leans more toward heavy-duty research;  Of the resources here, this is the only one behind a paywall. It is possible, if not probable, that you can log in to it for free using your public or college library card. Just call your library and ask--they'll walk you through it. New York Public Library Buttolph Collection of Menus:Tens of thousands of restaurant menus collected by a slightly eccentric New Yorker. No recipes here, of course, but looking at menus tells us a lot about how people ate when they didn't eat at home, and who ate out in the first place. NYU's Early American Cookbooks:Full-text cookbooks in a very easily browsable format. Choice title: "The Bachelor and the Chafing Dish" from 1896. Most of the books here were written for homemakers, though--presumably women. They also have a lot of infographics illustrating how recipe writing in America has evolved between 1800 and 1920.   Download my checklist for aspiring first-time cookbook writers  “Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook”   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group   Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron    

Welcome to another episode of The Cookbook Love Podcast. I’m excited today to interview Cookbook Reader and Military Spouse Jenna Miller. Military family life most typically involves relocations. In this episode, Jenna discusses the locations her family has lived with her husband who is Active Duty Air Force. As a result of these relocations, Jenna has leaned on cookbooks for many reasons. Cookbooks help her recreate familiar foods when they were living overseas. Then when they moved back to the states, cookbooks helped her recreate the foods they experienced in Italy and around Europe. In order to keep the number of books that Jenna has to pack, ship, and move to a minimum, she is an avid user of her local public library. She enjoys the library for not only browsing new titles but for recipe development as well.   Listen to Episode 16 below: iTunes or the Apple Podcast App Stitcher Google Music Play Spotify Things We Mention In This Episode: Jenna’s Delicious Creations Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron      

Welcome to this episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I’m excited to interview Janine Kolotyluk who is the Senior Community Educator at ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada). ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen has provided household advice and recipes for 85 years. Through their toll-free Answer Line, and their Calgary Learning Centre, Edmonton Retail Store and Kitchen, and website they provide reliable information on a variety of daily living, household, and cooking topics. The original home service department at ATCO was established in 1930 to help homemakers get the best results when using the "exciting new cooking fuel, natural gas." "You can do it better with gas" was the motto of the time. Even as time marches on and appliances and recipes have changed, ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen keeps in touch with their customers with recipes, classes, and direct-to-customer hotline service to answer cooking questions of any kind. One of the ongoing traditions at ATCO is the production of their Holiday collection cookbook. Enjoy this interview today as we learn more about Janine and her love of cookbooks as well as about the history of the Holiday Collection cookbooks written by the home economists and community educator at ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen. Things We Mention In This Episode:  ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen Purchase ATCO cookbooks online  Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group  Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron    

Welcome to this episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I feature an interview with Digna Cassens. Digna lives with her husband of 50+ years on a small ranch in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. They enjoy baking ancient grain bread, cooking, growing fruit trees, chiles, and organic vegetables. Digna is a cookbook collector and this stemmed from her career working as a Registered Dietitian in long-term-care, as well as her background growing up in Puerto Rico with a mother who was not only an excellent cook but a cookbook author as well.  In the episode Digna and I discuss collecting cookbooks, downsizing her cookbook collection, collecting the Time-Life Foods of the World Series, and her tips on writing family recipes. Announcing my upcoming Cookbook Writing Masterclass A Tale of 5 Cookbook Writers When: Dec 12, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)  Join Cookbook Coach Maggie Green for this live masterclass where she describes the journey of 5 different types of cookbook writers. Register for the masterclass: www.greenapron.com/cookbookmasterclass      

Welcome to this episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I am excited today to interview Cookbook Reader and RPVC (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer) Elizabeth Flamm. Elizabeth was stationed in Koussouka, Burkina Faso for 27 months from October 2012 to December 2014. At the beginning of her training, Elizabeth was given a copy of Where There is No Microwave: A Culinary Survival Guide. Elizabeth read this book cover to cover while she lived with her host family during the initial part of her assignment. Through the reading of this cookbook, Elizabeth educated herself about how to set up a Dutch Oven once in the village, soak beans, prepare grains, and purchase the staples and spices that would soon become part of her day-to-day diet. Since returning to the states, enrolling and graduating from Marquette University, and now serving as the Chief of Staff at City Year in Milwaukee, Elizabeth has begun to appreciate even more reading cookbooks. While not an avid collector, Elizabeth’s story of her time in the Peace Corps, and her reading of Where There Is No Microwave, points to the fact that compiled collections of curated recipes are a tool for teaching and education of cooks, especially when the cook is learning unfamiliar with the food preparation of different cuisines or countries Now with a kitchen of her own, Elizabeth enjoys cooking for herself and her friends, as well as using cookbooks as a tool to learn about flavor profiles, spice combinations, and recipes that produce good results.  .

Happy Thanksgiving! And welcome to this special Thanksgiving Episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Thanksgiving here in the US is a holiday all about food, sharing, and cooking, so it’s no accident that I planned today's’ interview with Sondra Bernstein. Sondra is the chef and owner of the Girl and the Fig in Sonoma, California. In October 2017 one of the deadliest fires in California history swept across Napa, Sonoma, and Mendicino counties in California. In response to the fire, and in addition to cooking thousands of meals for first responders, and those displaced by evacuations, Sondra created and held the Delicious New Chapters cookbook raiser for fire survivors. Listen in this interview as Sondra describes the days after the fires, and how she not only thought of the idea, but planned a day-long event where anyone affected by the fires could come and search for their favorite, or a new cookbook, from the thousands of cookbooks donated for the event. I would like to add that at the time of this part of the recording in early November 2018 California is again experiencing another very serious and deadly fire - the Camp Fire in Butte County. Our thoughts and prayers go out on this Thanksgiving Day to all those affected by the fires in California and to the first responders helping people piece their lives back together.

A basic list of ingredients is not copyright protected. (This is why Coca-Cola and KFC don’t share the ingredient list in their products.) That said, a writer’s expression of the list of ingredients as set forth in a recipe or a recipe collection (in a cookbook) is most often copyright protected. When a cookbook author writes a book, they have the privilege to determine their own recipe writing style. This style fits the author and communicates to the cook, consistently, what they are trying to convey in the book and recipes. On this episode of the podcast, I take a look at five cookbooks from my own collection and discuss the recipe style of the author. The goal of this episode is to share examples of recipe writing style. I also want to encourage cookbook collectors to look at the books in their collection each as a unique expression of the author. This episode may also be of interest to an aspiring cookbook and recipe writers as they determine their own recipe-writing style.

On this episode of the podcast, I interview the owner of Once Upon a Thyme Book Shop Kristina Heaton. Once Upon a Thyme is an independent bookshop in Beavercreek, Ohio. The mission of Once Upon A Thyme is to provide a community for food admirers. In the interview, Kristina talks about how the shop provides a community space for people to gather around cookbooks, food, and cooking, as well as a place where customers can buy new and used cookbooks and food-related titles, as well as unique kitchenware. Things We Mention In This Episode:   Once Upon A Thyme Book Shop website   Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group   Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co    

On this episode of the podcast, I interview Lisa Goldstein. Lisa is home cook and cookbook collector from the San Francisco Area. Lisa’s love for cookbook started at an early age when she read cookbooks he mom had in the house. As Lisa grew up and learned about cooking her desire to try new things expanded. She started with buying cookbooks from James Mc Nair’s Pizza and Pie Cookbook. She then added general reference cookbooks, as well as books about food science that piqued her interest in why and how cooking works. As it stands now, Lisa’s interest in cookbooks has spanned from single-subject books to specialty cookbooks published by restaurants. In December 2017 Lisa decided to cook through a cookbook, so in the interview, we’ll talk more about her cookbook-cook- through and what she has learned from this experiment with cooking every recipe from one cookbook.

Today Maggie interviews Founder and Coordinator of The Cookbook Club at the Villages, Florida, Judy ODwyer. Described as Florida’s friendliest hometown, The Villages is an over 55 retirement community. Judy started the Cookbook Club based on a model from a library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana as a way to get to know other residents of the Villages who shared her love for food, cooking, and cookbooks. In today’s interview, Judy describes the club including how they select topics, how she communicates with the members, as well as her tips for starting an in-person cookbook club.

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews Stay-At-Home-Dad and Cookbook Collector Eric Lee. Eric is SAHD from St Paul MN who started collecting cookbooks about 5 years ago out of a time in his family’s life when he needed to learn to cook for their evening meal. Eric’s first venture into cooking has a smoky ending when he prepared a meal with a  stovetop smoker and BBQ book but quickly grew into a passion for not only exploring cooking but collecting cookbooks as well. In today’s episode, Eric and I talk about his collection of over 2400 books, how he stores and organizes his collections, and his tips for where to begin if you’re new to cookbook collecting or cooking.

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews Ally Billhorn. Ally is a food blogger at Sweet and Savory Eats. Ally’s cookbook interaction has spanned the gamut. Her first experience with print recipes was when she was in college with Taste of Home Magazine and their companion cookbooks. Ally then subscribed to a cookbook-of-the-month club and started receiving cookbooks as gifts. As a food blogger, now Ally receives from publishers who want her to review their cookbooks on her blog. Ally loves the stories that authors include in cookbooks for the connection to the author including why they make a recipe and who they serve it to. To her, this feels like a conversation with the author, which Ally loves and something that she tries to mimic on her food blog.   Listen to Episode 6 below: iTunes or the Apple Podcast App Stitcher Google Music Play   Things We Mention In This Episode:   Ally's Sweet and Savory Eats Sweet Savory Eats on Instagram Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co    

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews cookbook collector Gina Michak. Gina describes herself as a Pittsburg gal living in Virginia and as a self-proclaimed Disney fanatic. Gina owns a business called From Gina’s Kitchen where she bakes specialty cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for her clients. Gina’s favorite features of a cookbook are the stories, entertainment ideas, and suggestions for wine pairings. In this interview, we talk about Gina’s Disney cookbook collection, her love of books about cocktails and bar drinks, as well as how she enjoys finding used and vintage cookbooks at her church parish’s festival.   Things We Mention In This Episode:   From Gina's Kitchen website From Gina's Kitchen on Instagram Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co    

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews cookbook “obsessive” Monique Llamas. Monique participates in online cookbook clubs and loves new release cookbooks. For the past 11 years, Monique has kept a recipe journal to document her use of cookbooks. In our interview, we discuss her journal and how she uses it to inform what she cooks every day. Monique learned her love of cookbooks, and cooking, from her Mom and she bought her first Betty Crocker cookbook when she was in college. In the interview, we talk about Monique's participation in website-, Facebook-, and social media-based cookbook clubs and the features of cookbooks she loves.     Hardcover Cook website Hardcover Cook on Instagram Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co    

In this bonus episode, Maggie Green talks about her journey with cookbooks as a reader, buyer, collector, writer, and now as a podcast host that celebrates cookbook readers, buyers, collectors, and clubs. 

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews cookbook reader and collector Kim Cowherd. Kim is a fellow Kentuckian and retired horticulturist. She has a love of gardening and farmers' markets due to her horticulture background. Kim has a fondness for stories found in cookbooks with a particular interest in church and community cookbooks.   Join the conversation  Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast  Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co