Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I’m excited to have an interview with Holly Berfield. Holly is a photographer who embarked on a project several years ago. In an effort to read more, cook more, and look for more beauty in the every day, Holly decided to read a book, cook a dish related to the book, and take a photograph inspired by the book. The result of this project is her Instagram feed and blog where Holly share the books she reads and the photo inspired by...
Nov 21, 2019•44 min•Ep. 64
November and Thanksgiving are upon us! And in this episode of the podcast, I’m doing something a little bit different. Today I use my first cookbook, Kentucky Fresh Cookbook, to talk about seasonal eating and cooking here in KY this time of year, and talk a bit about goetta, a breakfast specialty item popular in Northern Kentucky. I also dive into Thanksgiving and share 4 recipes from my book for Carl’s Pendennis Club Punch, Roasted Brined Turkey, Bread Dressing, and Peggy’s Corn Pudding. Full r...
Nov 14, 2019•33 min•Ep. 63
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 answers in Google Keep, or my iPhone notes app. If I'm in the car or on a walk I'll even record the answ...
Nov 07, 2019•18 min•Ep. 62
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I feature an interview with Jenny Hartin the publicity director for Eat Your Books and founder of The Cookbook Junkies. Jenny is here today to talk about exciting cookbooks coming up for Fall 2019, her new book, 101 Things to Do with a Bundt Pan, trends in cookbook concepts, and what Jenny’s seeing in cookbook design. And because it's Halloween, we also discuss a few spooky or Halloween cookbooks that are on our shelve...
Oct 31, 2019•45 min•Ep. 61
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 in books (and portrayed in films too). She loves cookbooks (Julia Child, James Beard, MFK Fisher) th...
Oct 24, 2019•55 min•Ep. 60
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 what it takes to write a cookbook of your own. Today I want to share 4 basic steps you can follow to...
Oct 17, 2019•17 min•Ep. 59
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 felt like they were making the case that writing a cookbook isn’t “worth it”. What I soon realized was...
Oct 10, 2019•18 min•Ep. 58
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 cookbooks. This really got me thinking: many of my favorite books in my collection are cookbooks about “a p...
Oct 03, 2019•33 min•Ep. 57
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 ideal reader, they need to get to know you better to have a relationship with you and perhaps buy from y...
Sep 26, 2019•21 min•Ep. 56
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 someone had told me before I wrote my cookbook: There will be mistakes in the cookbook. Somewhere, somehow t...
Sep 19, 2019•13 min•Ep. 55
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. Last year I attended an excellent workshop sponsored by IACP (International Association of Culinary Pro...
Sep 11, 2019•18 min•Ep. 54
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 (one of my cookbooks, one new Summer 2019 cookbook, one vintage cookbook, a self-published cookbook, a...
Sep 05, 2019•13 min•Ep. 53
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 to celebrate our 52nd episode. It’s been a great year! And I hope I have shared more cookbook love w...
Aug 29, 2019•14 min•Ep. 52
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. Ally also loved cookbooks and first considered herself just a cookbook reader. When she started to co...
Aug 22, 2019•41 min•Ep. 51
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 discuss her impetus to start on online cookbook store, her love of restaurant and autographed cookb...
Aug 15, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 50
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 cookbooks to the talented people who write cookbooks and feels that pursuing recipes, photographs, and stori...
Aug 08, 2019•39 min•Ep. 49
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 his life. So while going to school full-time, Alon decided to get a job working construction for $5.2...
Aug 01, 2019•42 min•Ep. 48
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 earned out. And, my students who self-publish their books did incur costs of publishing, so today I’ll ...
Jul 25, 2019•24 min•Ep. 47
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 very common in cookbooks are a relatively inexpensive enhancement to a cookbook. They have the ability...
Jul 18, 2019•26 min•Ep. 46
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 shelf space. That said, Sherry loves cookbooks, obviously, and to collect cookbooks when she travels i...
Jul 11, 2019•47 min•Ep. 45
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 from the Kentucky Fresh Cookbook. Sweet Bourbon-baked Beans Makes 12 servings From Kentucky Fresh Co...
Jul 04, 2019•22 min•Ep. 44
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 cilantro, from a relatively unknown and unused herb to an herb that millions of people now eat every d...
Jun 27, 2019•22 min•Ep. 43
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 work on getting the book published. Publishing is the business of preparing books for sale. The business ...
Jun 20, 2019•26 min•Ep. 42
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 with Ridgewood Public Library Cookbook Club Lisa Trent Free Cookbook Writing Masterclass: How to Becom...
Jun 13, 2019•16 min•Ep. 41
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 build their knowledge, expand their repertoire, and delight their family and friends”. In this episode...
Jun 06, 2019•37 min•Ep. 40
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 premium memberships for search and discovery for over 300 cookbook titles, including classic, contem...
May 29, 2019•54 min•Ep. 39
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 started with cookbook reading and has taken me on a path through cookbook editing and now writing 4 cookbo...
May 23, 2019•23 min•Ep. 38
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. They absolutely adored the dish and the new-to-them pairing of pork and tuna. As a cookbook collecto...
May 16, 2019•22 min•Ep. 37
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 in a 2017 Best of Show award at the National Pie Championship. As a result of their win their, and an...
May 09, 2019•46 min•Ep. 36
Welcome back to this week’s episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I am excited to share with you an episode on Kentucky Cookbooks. This episode holds a special place in my heart and life because I was born and raised in Kentucky and because the Kentucky Derby was always a sporting event that was celebrated by our family. So in today’s episode, I share more about Kentucky’s literary tradition, what the Kentucky Derby is, how the Kentucky Derby is celebrated, and a discussion of my favorite ...
May 02, 2019•45 min•Ep. 35
