Cook Another Book: TasteBook
Following up my recent post about cookbook publishers, I;d like to pass along word about a new web startup, Tastebook. When you visit the site, you can watch a series of four videos that describe just what the site offers.
This website offers a different route to creating personalized cookbooks. Via the site, one can gather recipes from its online partners, Epicurious, Gourment Magazine and Bon Appetit and place them into one’s own online cookbook, holding up to 100 recipes. The presentation of these recipes is quite handsome — excellent layout, beautiful photos. One can even input your own recipes, which of course the creative writer will prefer to do.
Once the recipe pages are gathered or created , one has the option of ordering an actual printed book, personalized with your own title. You choose your own photo [currently from a limited number] for the cover, and you can include appropriate dividers inside. Each recipe is a looseleaf page, which goes into an attractive hardcase binder. A single book of 100 recipes is not inexpensive, at $34.95 — but it is truly unique, your very own cookbook. If your recipe collection is less than 100, you receive “credits” for recipes in a second TasteBook. While it would probably not be feasible to order in buik and sell the books via bookstores or even via your own online store [something that is feasible through the publishers mention in my previous post], you can order copies as gifts for friends, not a bad Christmas idea for a writer.
This website is still very much in beta-testing. Some features are not available, such as uploading one’s own photos to include as cover or as illustration to one’s own individual recipes. I would expect these features to be offered sometime in the future.
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