Cookbook Love Podcast

Welcome back to our final episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast for 2018! Today I feature an interview with Cookbook Collector and Food Librarian Sara Bir. Sara has a great love for cookbooks and this began as a child when she used her mom's cookbooks to "make messes in the kitchen." Sara went on to attend the Culinary Institute of America because she wanted to write about food. Sara describes herself as a cookbook reader and collector and believes that cookbooks have made her who she is today. In our interview, we talk about a variety of topics including her collection of cookbooks from the 1950s-1980s as well as resources available online and through your public library for those who love food history and research just like Sara does. Listen to Episode 17 below: iTunes or the Apple Podcast App Stitcher Google Music Play Spotify Things We Mention In This Episode: Culinary Pamphlets Online:A collection of promotional recipe pamphlets from the 1930s-1960s. Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook ProjectThe Feeding America project has created an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes page images of 76 cookbooks from the MSU Library's collection as well as searchable full-text Food Timeline:An interactive timeline of the history of food on earth. The interface is very basic, but the scope is massive. Librarian Lynne Oliver runs this, using a lot of her own cookbook and cookery book collection. JSTOR:Thousands of full-text academic journals, papers, magazines, and books. This one leans more toward heavy-duty research; Of the resources here, this is the only one behind a paywall. It is possible, if not probable, that you can log in to it for free using your public or college library card. Just call your library and ask--they'll walk you through it. New York Public Library Buttolph Collection of Menus:Tens of thousands of restaurant menus collected by a slightly eccentric New Yorker. No recipes here, of course, but looking at menus tells us a lot about how people ate when they didn't eat at home, and who ate out in the first place. NYU's Early American Cookbooks:Full-text cookbooks in a very easily browsable format. Choice title: "The Bachelor and the Chafing Dish" from 1896. Most of the books here were written for homemakers, though--presumably women. They also have a lot of infographics illustrating how recipe writing in America has evolved between 1800 and 1920. Download my checklist for aspiring first-time cookbook writers "Are You Ready to Write a Cookbook" Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron

Welcome to another episode of The Cookbook Love Podcast. I'm excited today to interview Cookbook Reader and Military Spouse Jenna Miller. Military family life most typically involves relocations. In this episode, Jenna discusses the locations her family has lived with her husband who is Active Duty Air Force. As a result of these relocations, Jenna has leaned on cookbooks for many reasons. Cookbooks help her recreate familiar foods when they were living overseas. Then when they moved back to the states, cookbooks helped her recreate the foods they experienced in Italy and around Europe. In order to keep the number of books that Jenna has to pack, ship, and move to a minimum, she is an avid user of her local public library. She enjoys the library for not only browsing new titles but for recipe development as well. Listen to Episode 16 below: iTunes or the Apple Podcast App Stitcher Google Music Play Spotify Things We Mention In This Episode: Jenna's Delicious Creations Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron

Welcome to this episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I'm excited to interview Janine Kolotyluk who is the Senior Community Educator at ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada). ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen has provided household advice and recipes for 85 years. Through their toll-free Answer Line, and their Calgary Learning Centre, Edmonton Retail Store and Kitchen, and website they provide reliable information on a variety of daily living, household, and cooking topics. The original home service department at ATCO was established in 1930 to help homemakers get the best results when using the "exciting new cooking fuel, natural gas." "You can do it better with gas" was the motto of the time. Even as time marches on and appliances and recipes have changed, ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen keeps in touch with their customers with recipes, classes, and direct-to-customer hotline service to answer cooking questions of any kind. One of the ongoing traditions at ATCO is the production of their Holiday collection cookbook. Enjoy this interview today as we learn more about Janine and her love of cookbooks as well as about the history of the Holiday Collection cookbooks written by the home economists and community educator at ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen. Things We Mention In This Episode: ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen Purchase ATCO cookbooks online Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron

Welcome to this episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I feature an interview with Digna Cassens. Digna lives with her husband of 50+ years on a small ranch in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. They enjoy baking ancient grain bread, cooking, growing fruit trees, chiles, and organic vegetables. Digna is a cookbook collector and this stemmed from her career working as a Registered Dietitian in long-term-care, as well as her background growing up in Puerto Rico with a mother who was not only an excellent cook but a cookbook author as well. In the episode Digna and I discuss collecting cookbooks, downsizing her cookbook collection, collecting the Time-Life Foods of the World Series, and her tips on writing family recipes. Announcing my upcoming Cookbook Writing Masterclass A Tale of 5 Cookbook Writers When: Dec 12, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Cookbook Coach Maggie Green for this live masterclass where she describes the journey of 5 different types of cookbook writers. Register for the masterclass: www.greenapron.com/cookbookmasterclass

Welcome to this episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Today I am excited today to interview Cookbook Reader and RPVC (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer) Elizabeth Flamm. Elizabeth was stationed in Koussouka, Burkina Faso for 27 months from October 2012 to December 2014. At the beginning of her training, Elizabeth was given a copy of Where There is No Microwave: A Culinary Survival Guide. Elizabeth read this book cover to cover while she lived with her host family during the initial part of her assignment. Through the reading of this cookbook, Elizabeth educated herself about how to set up a Dutch Oven once in the village, soak beans, prepare grains, and purchase the staples and spices that would soon become part of her day-to-day diet. Since returning to the states, enrolling and graduating from Marquette University, and now serving as the Chief of Staff at City Year in Milwaukee, Elizabeth has begun to appreciate even more reading cookbooks. While not an avid collector, Elizabeth's story of her time in the Peace Corps, and her reading of Where There Is No Microwave, points to the fact that compiled collections of curated recipes are a tool for teaching and education of cooks, especially when the cook is learning unfamiliar with the food preparation of different cuisines or countries Now with a kitchen of her own, Elizabeth enjoys cooking for herself and her friends, as well as using cookbooks as a tool to learn about flavor profiles, spice combinations, and recipes that produce good results. .

Happy Thanksgiving! And welcome to this special Thanksgiving Episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast. Thanksgiving here in the US is a holiday all about food, sharing, and cooking, so it's no accident that I planned today's' interview with Sondra Bernstein. Sondra is the chef and owner of the Girl and the Fig in Sonoma, California. In October 2017 one of the deadliest fires in California history swept across Napa, Sonoma, and Mendicino counties in California. In response to the fire, and in addition to cooking thousands of meals for first responders, and those displaced by evacuations, Sondra created and held the Delicious New Chapters cookbook raiser for fire survivors. Listen in this interview as Sondra describes the days after the fires, and how she not only thought of the idea, but planned a day-long event where anyone affected by the fires could come and search for their favorite, or a new cookbook, from the thousands of cookbooks donated for the event. I would like to add that at the time of this part of the recording in early November 2018 California is again experiencing another very serious and deadly fire - the Camp Fire in Butte County. Our thoughts and prayers go out on this Thanksgiving Day to all those affected by the fires in California and to the first responders helping people piece their lives back together.

A basic list of ingredients is not copyright protected. (This is why Coca-Cola and KFC don't share the ingredient list in their products.) That said, a writer's expression of the list of ingredients as set forth in a recipe or a recipe collection (in a cookbook) is most often copyright protected. When a cookbook author writes a book, they have the privilege to determine their own recipe writing style. This style fits the author and communicates to the cook, consistently, what they are trying to convey in the book and recipes. On this episode of the podcast, I take a look at five cookbooks from my own collection and discuss the recipe style of the author. The goal of this episode is to share examples of recipe writing style. I also want to encourage cookbook collectors to look at the books in their collection each as a unique expression of the author. This episode may also be of interest to an aspiring cookbook and recipe writers as they determine their own recipe-writing style.

On this episode of the podcast, I interview the owner of Once Upon a Thyme Book Shop Kristina Heaton. Once Upon a Thyme is an independent bookshop in Beavercreek, Ohio. The mission of Once Upon A Thyme is to provide a community for food admirers. In the interview, Kristina talks about how the shop provides a community space for people to gather around cookbooks, food, and cooking, as well as a place where customers can buy new and used cookbooks and food-related titles, as well as unique kitchenware. Things We Mention In This Episode: Once Upon A Thyme Book Shop website Please join our Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast or @greenapron Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co

On this episode of the podcast, I interview Lisa Goldstein. Lisa is home cook and cookbook collector from the San Francisco Area. Lisa's love for cookbook started at an early age when she read cookbooks he mom had in the house. As Lisa grew up and learned about cooking her desire to try new things expanded. She started with buying cookbooks from James Mc Nair's Pizza and Pie Cookbook. She then added general reference cookbooks, as well as books about food science that piqued her interest in why and how cooking works. As it stands now, Lisa's interest in cookbooks has spanned from single-subject books to specialty cookbooks published by restaurants. In December 2017 Lisa decided to cook through a cookbook, so in the interview, we'll talk more about her cookbook-cook- through and what she has learned from this experiment with cooking every recipe from one cookbook.

Today Maggie interviews Founder and Coordinator of The Cookbook Club at the Villages, Florida, Judy ODwyer. Described as Florida's friendliest hometown, The Villages is an over 55 retirement community. Judy started the Cookbook Club based on a model from a library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana as a way to get to know other residents of the Villages who shared her love for food, cooking, and cookbooks. In today's interview, Judy describes the club including how they select topics, how she communicates with the members, as well as her tips for starting an in-person cookbook club.

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews Stay-At-Home-Dad and Cookbook Collector Eric Lee. Eric is SAHD from St Paul MN who started collecting cookbooks about 5 years ago out of a time in his family's life when he needed to learn to cook for their evening meal. Eric's first venture into cooking has a smoky ending when he prepared a meal with a stovetop smoker and BBQ book but quickly grew into a passion for not only exploring cooking but collecting cookbooks as well. In today's episode, Eric and I talk about his collection of over 2400 books, how he stores and organizes his collections, and his tips for where to begin if you're new to cookbook collecting or cooking.

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews Ally Billhorn. Ally is a food blogger at Sweet and Savory Eats. Ally's cookbook interaction has spanned the gamut. Her first experience with print recipes was when she was in college with Taste of Home Magazine and their companion cookbooks. Ally then subscribed to a cookbook-of-the-month club and started receiving cookbooks as gifts. As a food blogger, now Ally receives from publishers who want her to review their cookbooks on her blog. Ally loves the stories that authors include in cookbooks for the connection to the author including why they make a recipe and who they serve it to. To her, this feels like a conversation with the author, which Ally loves and something that she tries to mimic on her food blog. Listen to Episode 6 below: iTunes or the Apple Podcast App Stitcher Google Music Play Things We Mention In This Episode: Ally's Sweet and Savory Eats Sweet Savory Eats on Instagram Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews cookbook collector Gina Michak. Gina describes herself as a Pittsburg gal living in Virginia and as a self-proclaimed Disney fanatic. Gina owns a business called From Gina's Kitchen where she bakes specialty cakes, cupcakes, and cookies for her clients. Gina's favorite features of a cookbook are the stories, entertainment ideas, and suggestions for wine pairings. In this interview, we talk about Gina's Disney cookbook collection, her love of books about cocktails and bar drinks, as well as how she enjoys finding used and vintage cookbooks at her church parish's festival. Things We Mention In This Episode: From Gina's Kitchen website From Gina's Kitchen on Instagram Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews cookbook "obsessive" Monique Llamas. Monique participates in online cookbook clubs and loves new release cookbooks. For the past 11 years, Monique has kept a recipe journal to document her use of cookbooks. In our interview, we discuss her journal and how she uses it to inform what she cooks every day. Monique learned her love of cookbooks, and cooking, from her Mom and she bought her first Betty Crocker cookbook when she was in college. In the interview, we talk about Monique's participation in website-, Facebook-, and social media-based cookbook clubs and the features of cookbooks she loves. Hardcover Cook website Hardcover Cook on Instagram Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co

In this bonus episode, Maggie Green talks about her journey with cookbooks as a reader, buyer, collector, writer, and now as a podcast host that celebrates cookbook readers, buyers, collectors, and clubs.

In this episode of the podcast, Maggie interviews cookbook reader and collector Kim Cowherd. Kim is a fellow Kentuckian and retired horticulturist. She has a love of gardening and farmers' markets due to her horticulture background. Kim has a fondness for stories found in cookbooks with a particular interest in church and community cookbooks. Join the conversation Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Instagram @cookbooklovepodcast Show notes can be found at cookbooklove.co

In this episode, Maggie interviews Jenny Hartin. Jenny is the owner and administrator of Cookbook Junkies Facebook Group and her own website The Cookbook Junkies, as well as the Director of Publicity for Eat Your Books. Jenny shares her introduction into the cookbook space as a cook and cookbook collector, why she started Cookbook Junkies and her role as Director of Publicity for Eat Your Books. The Cookbook Junkies Facebook Group Eat Your Books thecookbookjunkies.com Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group

In this episode to the podcast, Maggie interviews Kelsey Banfield of The Little Snack Newsletter. Kelsey shares about her love of organizing her cookbooks by color, what she learned from her mom about cookbooks, and more about her newsletter the Snack Cookbook Club. Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Cookbook Love Podcast Show Notes Cookbook Love Podcast on Instagram Green Apron on Instagram

In this introductory episode to the Cookbook Love Podcast, cookbook author, editor, and coach Maggie Green shares her vision, mission, and goals for the show. In addition to this Maggie shares how to connect with the Cookbook Love Podcast Community, as well as how to access show notes for each episode. Cookbook Love Podcast Facebook Group Cookbook Love Podcast Show Notes Cookbook Love Podcast on Instagram Green Apron on Instagram