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For a Cookbook Review, is Testing Recipes Essential?

January 12, 2016 by diannejacob 52 Comments

I had my 15 minutes of fame in December, when The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and NPR included the cookbook I co-wrote with chef Craig Priebe, The United States of Pizza, in their 2015 holiday round-ups of best books or cookbooks of the year.

It was a giddy time because, as you know, a cookbook review in The New York Times is the Holy Grail. Emails flew as my agent and publisher discussed [Read more…] about For a Cookbook Review, is Testing Recipes Essential?

Filed Under: Freelancing, Writing Tagged With: best cookbook round-ups, cookbook reviews, cookbook write-ups, testing cookbooks

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