Cookbook Love Podcast Maggie Green

Brad Prose is a longtime professional recipe developer, food writer, and culinary photographer—more recently, he has struck out on his own as the founder and force behind Chiles and Smoke™. His combined passion for fine dining and BBQ shines through his presentations and cooking style. Making his mark in the wide world of BBQ, Brad produces high-quality, unique recipes to challenge and expand the home cook’s comfort zone. He inspires his readers to use new techniques, ingredients, and ideas, applying them to the everyday food we know and love. Today on the podcast, Brad and I talk about Brad’s love for grilling and barbecue, how to utilize chiles for the smoker and grill, his process of curating and testing the recipes for his cookbook as well as Brad’s knowledge about working with partners to help market his cookbook and build his brand on social media.
Things We Mention In This Episode:

How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook Free Training
Join the waitlist for Cookbooks on KDP
Connect with Brad Prose online
Chiles and Smoke: BBQ, Grilling, and Other Fire-Friendly Recipes with Spice and Flavor 
Tacos: Recipes and Provocations by Alex Stupak
 

Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I wanted to share four tools that really helped me get organized when I wrote cookbook #1:
1. A dedicated notebook. I bought a new spiral-bound notebook (that I wouldn’t be afraid to mess up!) and used it to record everything: menus, meal plans, recipes, ideas, and inspirations for everything I cooked and baked. Since I enjoyed cooking and writing it was easy for me to write down all the things. Important point>> It’s not about the price or the style of the notebook that matters, but that you get in the habit of thinking to write everything down and that when you do all your notes are in one place.
2. A  digital or physical folder to save labels, food bags, flattened packages, and boxes. When I’m in the recipe idea and development phase, I keep everything, sort of like a kitchen pack-rat. (After the project is finished, I throw everything away). You’ll be surprised how I refer back to a package, bag, box, or can size when I write my recipes. Alternatively, take a photo of the packaging and store it on your phone in a dedicated Google Drive or iCloud folder.
3. Google Sheets: Open a new spreadsheet and keep track of your recipe list here. I color-coded my spreadsheets to know what phase of recipe development or testing I was in with each recipe.
4. Google Docs or Word or Pages: Write a digital copy of each recipe. In the beginning, I saved each recipe in its own document and labeled the version of the recipe each time I saved the recipe.
5. Optional software: Scrivener.I used Scrivener to write three of my four cookbooks. I enjoyed the ability to work on each recipe as its own file and to add metadata about the progress for recipe testing and development. 
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Things We Mention In This Episode:

How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook Free Training
Join the waitlist for Cookbooks on KDP
Scrivener  - Book writing software
 

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I have an interview with Spearfisherwoman and Ocean Evangelist Valentine Thomas. Valentine was born in Montreal and trained as a lawyer in Canada, then worked in finance in London. Dissatisfied with her work in law and finance, Valentine was introduced to spearfishing while on holiday in Ibiza. The ocean - which she once feared - became her greatest passion, and she made fishing and diving her life’s work. Today on the podcast, we talk about spearfishing, tips for eco-friendly seafood choices, her cookbook Good Catch: A Guide to Sustainable Fish and Seafood with Recipes from the World’s Oceans, and recipes from the cookbook for canned sardines, the best tartar sauce, gummy bears using fish scales, fish, and pancakes, as well as fish head nachos. 
Things We Mention In This Episode:
Connect with Valentine Thomas

How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook Free Training
Join the waitlist for the next cohort of Cookbooks on KDP
Valentine's Cookbook: Good Catch
 

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. This Saturday is the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby. Our family is planning a party as we do every year, so I thought I’d share recipes for the official drink of the Kentucky Derby, the Mint Julep.
Things We Mention In This Episode:
Kentucky Derby Museum Cookbook
The Mint Julep by Colonel Joe Nickell
Tasting Kentucky: Favorite Recipes from the Bluegrass State by Maggie Green
How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook Free Training
 

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I have an interview with Lisa Ruland.  Lisa is a recovering lawyer who traded criminal court for the pastry kitchen. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Lisa worked as a pastry chef in some of New York City’s top bake shops, and then found her happy place in food writing. In 2014 Lisa lost her husband Erik in a tragic accident on Mt. Rainier. Working as a full-time food writer at the time of her husband's death, Lisa was continually struck by the many ways her loss impacted her relationship with food: learning to eat alone, making foggy-headed cooking mistakes, learning to food shop for one, being too sad to throw out his now-long-expired yogurt. Today on the podcast we talk about grief including the physical, psychological, and community aspects of food + grief. 
 Things We Mention In This Episode:
Lisa Ruland’s Food & Grief Project
Free training How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook without Spending Your Own Money to Get Published 
 

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today on the podcast, I share some thoughts on the value of documenting and sharing your recipes, including:
writing original recipes saving secret recipes
documenting the recipes in our heads (note: if we don’t do this, who will), 
and the new life given to food, kitchens, and cooks through documentation and sharing of recipes 

Things We Mention In This Episode:
Learn more about Cookbooks on KDP Pilot Program - enrollment ends April 25, 2023 - receive a bonus of Recipe Week 5-Day Training all about writing recipes. 
Free training How to Get Paid to Write a Cookbook without Spending Your Own Money to Get Published 
 Episode 11: Take a Look at Recipe Writing Style
 Episode 24: What is a Recipe Headnote and Why Does It Matter
 Episode 37: Recipe and Cookbook Abundance
 Episode 54: Recipe Copyright Protection