As promised, the overview of http://howtocookbooks.com
Posted By admin on November 29, 2008
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As promised in my last post we’ll start to share with you exactly what this project and website will offer aspiring cooks and lovers of authentic cuisine.
We’re going to start with four coobooks. The first ones will be Argentine recipes, Costa Rican cuisine, Moroccan dishes, and Dominican food. After more than six hours of meetings on the subject of authentic Moroccan food it is clear that we’ll have a series of at least five books featuring Moroccan food.
We’ve already been in the kitchen cooking and have almost completed the cookbook for Argentine cuisine.As I wrote about we’ve got hundreds of Moroccan recipes for you and are working on formatting them and taking the pictures of the prepartions so you can see how each dish looks as we prepare them.
Each month we’ll add at least two new cookbooks to our “How to cook like you’re from _________, when you aren’t” series. After much discussion we’ve also decided to do cookbooks featuring authentic recipes but centering those cookbooks around either a main ingredient or a meal course.
We’re planning a cookbook with authentic chicken soup recipes from countries around the world, as an example. We’ll be creating a sister site of comfort food from around the world in a few months also.
Each contributor will have a biography page and links to the cookbooks where their recipes are featured. This will help you to find other cookbooks they’ve contributed to, sort of a “favorite cook” option for you. We’re all about connecting people so we’ll do our best to make connecting with your favorite cook as easy as possible.
We’ll slowly be adding short videos of specific parts of the preparation process for certain recipes. As an example there is a special technique for finishing the empanades our Argentine contributor has for you in her cookbook. So we’ll show you a short video of how to fold those edges to give them the authentic look you’d see on a table in Argentina.
Those short video clips are the first step to building a video cooking series for you. Recipes and pictures are great but watching someone cook a dish will always be the best way to learn how to duplicate it exacly.
We’ll be doing video podcasts also, and will have audio versions of the cookbooks which will have a copy of the digital version bundled with it. We’re doing this so you can have a cooking coach with you in the kitchen as you try each new recipe. Everyone learns differently so we’ll do our best to present you with as many formats as possible so you can choose the one which works best for your personal learning style.
One of my favorite sites for audio and video ebooks is Learn Out Loud http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video . If you aren’t familiar with the site, it’s definitely worth a visit to see the wide range of topics and experts they offer.
A few months into the project we’ll be offering a new sister site where you can either purchase all the videos from a particular cookbook, single videos only for the specific recipes you want from the entire list of recipes in all the cookbooks, or the final option on the new site will be to purchase a monthly or annual membership where you can have access to all the videos.
Once we have all the videos ready we’ll also be offering you the option to purchase them as downloads, or to buy a DVD of the recipes.
Another thing that has come up during our brainstorming sessions is that some things you’ll need to create these recipes may be a little difficult to find.
For instance finding a Tagine for a Moroccan Tagine recipe may not be as simple as s drive to the mall for everyone. With that in mind we’ll be creating an online grocery store where you can purchase special cookware, spices, and herbs directly from us. who knows we may even decide to offer a little home decor to match your favorite cuisine.
I know it may be a little hard to visualize the evolution of this project, but we’ve got it all drawn out in mindmaps and laid out on spreadsheets so leave the visions to us, and you just enjoy watching the project unfold.
Stay tuned for our official site launch which is scheduled for April 15, 2008.
If all goes well we may have more than four cookbooks ready for our site launch so please don’t think that’s carved in stone. The only thing we carve is meat and poultry.