Cookbook Love Podcast

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.

Today's episode is about 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 herb to an herb that millions of people now eat every day at Chipotle. Food trends also make it into cookbooks so I explore that today as well.

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.

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.

After last week’s podcast with Monica Llamas, I was invited to submit my top 10 cookbooks for the 1000 Cookbooks Project. The goal with this 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, I talk about my 10 favorite books in my collection, and I added one book for honorable mention.

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. Ckbk offers free and premium memberships for search and discovery for over 300 cookbook titles, including classic, contemporary, out-of-print, and reference cookbooks. In today’s episode, Monique and I talk about her founding the ckbk cookbook club, as well as her interest in other online cookbooks clubs.

My journey with cookbooks started with cookbook reading and has taken me on a path through cookbook editing and now writing 4 cookbooks of my own. I love writing cookbooks and there are several advantages I see to writing a cookbook over a food blog. I say this knowing there are many successful, professional food bloggers, but cookbooks suit me well (and they may suit you well too). For today’s episode, I share why I choose to write cookbooks over a food blog.

On the internet and in our cookbook collections we can find almost any recipe for anything. Despite this abundance, we at times still feel we’re missing the secret to loving home cooking all the time, out of alignment with the abundance we have, feel like we’re missing out, overwhelmed, and in general, everything feels hard from planning, prepping, shopping, cooking, and doing the dishes. On the podcast today, I explore why we feel negative emotion even when we have so many recipes and cookbook abundanc

Chris Taylor and Paul Arguin are cookbook collectors and scientists by trade. About 10 years ago they entered an amateur pie competition. Chris’ Lemon Strawberry Pie won 1st place. Since then they have been on a journey of pie, culminating in 2017 Best of Show at the National Pie Championship. As a result of their win their, and an article in the NYT, they were approached about writing a cookbook. In this interview we talk about of course pie, pie competitions, and their favorite pie and baking books.

Today I am excited to share with you an episode on the Kentucky Derby and 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 Kentucky cookbooks.

Today I take a look back at illustrated and hand-lettered cookbooks in my collection. My review of these books led me to the discovery that illustrations serve many purposes in cookbooks:  design, instruction of step-by-step processes, identification if ingredients or equipment, or in the case of To The Kings Taste, illustrations that displayed elaborate scenes of medieval dinners and kitchen tasks (such as stomping grapes, or churning butter) created from woodcuts.

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast, today I am excited to share an interview with Maria Ribas. Maria is a true cookbook lover. She not only collects cookbooks, and uses cookbooks at home when she cooks, but she also works as a literary agent at Stonesong Literary Agency. At Stonesong, Maria represents authors to publishers, including her favorite genre, cookbook authors. Today we discuss the process of acquiring cookbook titles and what’s on the horizon for cookbook trends.

Today on the podcast I share my thoughts on writing and selling cookbooks.Behind every cookbook we own, read, write, or cook from there is a writer. A writer who has a message to share. In order to become a cookbook author, they had to become a cookbook writer first. And I see that there are a few hurdles this writer has to jump before they have a finished book. So, today, we’ll talk about these four hurdles, what they are and how we can hurdle them if we want to become a cookbook writer.

Today I feature an interview with Jordan Hamons owner of Tablespoon Cooking Co. at historic Findlay Market in Cincinnati. Tablespoon teaches home cooks how to cook good food. Jordan is a cookbook collector and has loved cookbooks from a young age. Today we talk about Jordan’s introduction to cookbooks and how cookbook club at Tablespoon Cooking Co. In her spare time Jordan loves to travel –and if not by plane, by cookbook,  learning international cooking techniques and sampling food from around the gl

Today I have an interview with Melissa Bottoroff-Arey. Melissa is the founder of Cultivated Journey. She and her husband are full-time travelers. They live and work from their motor home while traveling in the United States. Melissa has a passion for farm-to-table cuisine and teaching other travelers how they can eat local and seasonal. Melissa had to purge her cookbook collection when they decided to travel full-time, as well as her experience with cookbooks as a chef, and cooking meals in her motor home.