Compiling a Cook Book

[bunyip]

I did some a while ago for some friends who suddenly found themselves single again and were living from freezer to microwave.
Used photobooks about 30 pages which gave an illustration one side and directions on the other.
There was a cookbook template available on the site, cost was about $20 but only did a few.
Called it 'The Born Again Bachelor' and it went down well.
Just a thought as an intro so you can gauge what sort of reception it will receive.
I cannot recall the photo book company but there certainly are no shortage of them.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Yeah, I think the title will be important, although we haven't decided on that yet...but it will be something to emphasize the Lady Elks and the down home tried and true origin of the recipes.

 

[tallyho8]

My wife collected cookbooks until we remodeled our home and did not have a good space for all the books so we tried to sell them.
After listing them on eBay, Craigslist and in the local newspaper for several months at prices as low as 50 cents a book, we gave up. We then tried to give them away. I brought a couple bushels of them to civic club meetings where people took about half of them and even after offering them for free on Craigslist for a month, we threw the rest away.
It seems that cookbooks are out of style now that everyone is looking up things on the internet but they can still be sold if you have salespeople who are willing to work for free and go door to door, such as Scouts. Not that the buyers want the book so much but that they are trying to help out the Scouts.

 

[downsizingnow48]

When this thread came up I stopped by the Barnes and Noble to look at cookbooks. I would guess there is 70 ft of wall space with shelves from floor level to about 7 ft, filled with cookbooks. Someone is buying them. There are so many different cookbooks it was confusing, I could not really take it all in.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My wife collected cookbooks until we remodeled our home and did not have a good space for all the books so we tried to sell them.
After listing them on eBay, Craigslist and in the local newspaper for several months at prices as low as 50 cents a book, we gave up. We then tried to give them away. I brought a couple bushels of them to civic club meetings where people took about half of them and even after offering them for free on Craigslist for a month, we threw the rest away.
It seems that cookbooks are out of style now that everyone is looking up things on the internet but they can still be sold if you have salespeople who are willing to work for free and go door to door, such as Scouts. Not that the buyers want the book so much but that they are trying to help out the Scouts.

I have to agree; we are going to try to counter this by personalizing it, i.e. family tried and true recipes from local folks, and maybe a section on BBQ/Smoking, with some personal commentary, techniques and recipes. We'll see; maybe get some local sponsorship. It's going to be a big job, so it's not at all a certainty at this point.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

When this thread came up I stopped by the Barnes and Noble to look at cookbooks. I would guess there is 70 ft of wall space with shelves from floor level to about 7 ft, filled with cookbooks. Someone is buying them. There are so many different cookbooks it was confusing, I could not really take it all in.

Didnt know Barnes and Noble were still around.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Five of them in 10 mi radius from the Sacramento house.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Five of them in 10 mi radius from the Sacramento house.

Guess we still got one around, had to google it. must have been borders books that closed.

 

[bunyip]

I have a few 'foreign' cook books and took a while with google to find out what some common ingredients were that change names from country to country.
Aubergine (Eggplant) Courgette (Zucchini) Cilantro (Coriander) and even cuts of meat just to name a few, snags (Aus) snorkers (UK).
There is probably a published dictionary somewhere but google works for us.

 

[om21braz]

How is the cookbook coming 2Lane?