We did it!

by Sava on May 24, 2010

We just returned from Long Beach Airport where we said “good-bye” to Georgia and Floyd after 8 weeks of concentrated effort on our cookbook. It paid off cause we actually FINISHED it! WHEW!! We still have to decide about photos, but the text with recipes is complete as well as the size we want the book to be. So far it appears to have 345 pages with 110 recipes! The page count keeps changing as we change font sizes and format, but I think that it’s pretty well set at this point. The index is the last thing we have to write, but that’s a piece of cake compared to what we have already done. So we can take a breather before seriously researching our options for self-publishing. We know that will take some time, but we are starting to get feedback from different friends with information that is very helpful in that quest. We will be giving out recipes for friends to test to make sure they make sense to someone who has never tried it before. It is hard to see things objectively sometimes when we “know what we mean”. Just because it makes sense to us doesn’t mean it will be clear to someone else. Of course we want everything to be very clear to anyone who reads it and tries it. That’s where we are right now. We’re already missing you, Jo and Floyd!!

See you next time…

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Wow, it’s been a month since I last wrote. That’s because Jo and I have been working like madwomen on our cookbook/travel book. We have been reliving our trips to Greece, just reading about the different excursions we took, the people we talked with, the incredible food we ate…it’s all in the book… EVERYTHING! From [...]

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Last night my son, Jeb, called and said, “I just thought of something I haven’t had for a long time.I’d like to know what it is and how soon you can make it. It’s a grain, I think, and it is served in a paper cup and it has those little silver balls mixed into it. [...]

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YAY! My sister, Jo, in Vermont,  had lunch the other day with a cook book editor who recently moved to her town. She graciously listened to our “plan” for our cookbook and offered some great pointers on publishing. After listening to all that is involved in that process and that a publisher can rearrange, change, [...]

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Hangover???

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Aside from the things we learned while traveling in Greece, we had fun uncovering some “little known secrets” (to us, at least). One cookbook had wonderful historical (and hysterical) information of ancient Greece with many of its recipes. Who knew that eating cabbage before a night of wild drinking (even in the 6th century B.C.) [...]

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Yassou!

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A New Year and a New Beginning
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