Don’t Shoot the Cookbook Writer

Since I’ve written so many cookbooks (more than twenty), people ask me all the time how I do it, where I get the recipes, whether I test them, what I do with the food, and so on. So herewith I bare my soul and working methods. Let me use as illustration the book on American home cooking that I am working on now., for Viking Press.

One of the rewards (apart from earning a living and feeding friends) of having done so many books of one sort is that I don’t have to go to the publishers with an idea, they come to me. This saves me time and is good for my vanity, nowadays known as ego.

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About the Author

Nika Hazelton

Since I’ve written so many cookbooks (more than twenty), people ask me all the time how I do it, where I get the recipes, whether I test them, what I do with the food, and so on. So herewith I bare my soul and working methods. Let me use as illustration the book on American home cooking that I am working on now., for Viking Press.

One of the rewards (apart from earning a living and feeding friends) of having done so many books of one sort is that I don’t have to go to the publishers with an idea, they come to me. This saves me time and is good for my vanity, nowadays known as ego.