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Ina Garten

Who Wrote the Bestselling Cookbooks of 2013?

June 17, 2014 by diannejacob 14 Comments

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I was on a panel last week (during the Julia Child Food and Wine Festival at Bacara in Santa Barbara, CA) where the moderator showed this slide of the bestselling cookbooks of 2013 in the US, according to Nielsen research. If you haven’t seen it yet, I think you’ll find [Read more…] about Who Wrote the Bestselling Cookbooks of 2013?

Filed Under: Cookbooks Tagged With: bestselling cookbooks, cookbook trends, Ina Garten, Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman

Barefoot Contessa's Dogged Recipe Testing

May 3, 2011 by diannejacob

Think your readers will make your recipes flawlessly simply because you’ve made them more than once?

Mega-star and cookbook author Ina Garten of Barefoot Contessa fame doesn’t, even though she has worked in the food business for more than 30 years. She still relies on an assistant and her friends when developing new recipes.

In How Easy is That?, Garten says once she’s tested a recipe repeatedly, she hands it over to longtime assistant Barbara Libath. Then she watches Libath make it.

“Every time I do that, I learn something about how someone at home, with only the printed recipe in front of them, might make the dish,” Garten writes. She’s careful not to [Read more…] about Barefoot Contessa's Dogged Recipe Testing

Filed Under: Recipe Writing Tagged With: food writing, Ina Garten, recipe testing, Recipe Writing, Will Write For Food

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