A modest idea
Someone asked me recently if they could get all the cookery from here in a book. Right now, obviously, she can’t. But if I do the work, with modern technology I can make a book.
I’m very picky about indexing cookbooks, so I can see it would be quite a lot of work, but I’m considering it.
How about it? You can get most of it free here, but some think using the search box is too much trouble. Would you buy a book if it existed?
It would depend on price, of course - can\’t afford glossy, coffee-table cookbooks, but I can\’t imagine that\’s what you have in mind - so….
Hell, YES!
Why cram all into one book? You can do a sequel with the first financing the second….etc. etc.. The smaller the book the less time to compose and less material (paper supplies, etc) to print. And the more you print at one time the less each book will cost. The greater the press run, the less the cost per book.
I still prefer a book to the Internet. the feel, the smell, the comfort of a book in my lap in bed, the car, beauty parlor.
You bet your sweet bippie!
The idea is to turn the recipes that are here into a bound book one can buy. I have in mind to add non-blog content as well. Thing is, I was sent to a site that can do on-order printing, book by book, but there would be no interior pictures. The photos here can be copied and printed for those who feel a picture helps, and then pasted into the book, I suppose.
The non-blog content would be traditional recipes that are not original with me– all the recipes here are mine, with even the ones inspired by others altered to be easier or healthier or mostly they’ve ended up completely different. Then too, some ways to choose or judge ingredients that are important in my recipes, like pecorino and pasta.
By not having interior pictures the price per book would be kept down. Cover art would be included.
It’s a lot of work to properly organize and index a cookbook, so it isn’t something I’d like to do without knowing someone would buy it.
Honestly, I think it would be hard to sell without pictures. I know when I buy a cookbook, I always go for the ones that have pictures in them and pass on the others, although they may in fact be superior in content. I think it\’s a worthwhile project though. Any way you could actually do it with pictures?
They do print picture books, but the price gets up around 50-60 very quickly. I wasn’t thinking about selling the books in shops, but just having a link where people could order them as they wished.
The way you can do pictures at a decent price is to be published by someone who can sell thousands of books just before Christmas, which is when most cookbooks get released. Then the cost of the color photos gets spread around.
That offer hasn’t materialized out of the ether… yet.