You Can Write A Cookbook. - Review - book review

Vegetarian Journal, Jan, 2001 by Debra Wasserman

Whether you've ever wanted to put together a collection of your favorite original recipes and give them away as gifts, or seriously wanted to write a cookbook for the mass market, You Can Write a Cookbook will offer you valuable advice.

Inside this book, you'll learn about the ingredients of a good cookbook, how to write recipes, choose a good theme, organize your material, and how to lay it out. Also find out how to self-publish your book or sell it to a book publisher. Finally, you'll read about the importance of promoting your work once it has been published.

This book also provides a terrific list of media connections, including food writers, food reporters, and other industry contacts. Publishing terms are also defined.

You Can Write a Cookbook (ISBN 0-89879-923-6) is published by Writer's Digest Books. It is 122 pages and retails for $12.95. It can be found in bookstores. Reviewed by Debra Wasserman.