Cookbookery Collective
Jenna Helwig, Dianne Jacob, Sally Ekus, Frances Abrantes Baca, Theresa Gambacorta, Hillary SterlingA community for cookbook enthusiasts
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 114 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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The Most Talked-About Cookbook of the Season
It came up when agent and I did a Substack Live after my fall preview dropped and again when we talked cookbooks with at the Cherry Bombe House. When designer and I counted down our top ten favorite covers of the fall, she put this one a...
Yotam Ottolenghi Wrote an Easy Dinner Cookbook
While this is obviously an over-simplification, I am convinced that America’s obsession with Middle Eastern flavors and the expansion of our pantries to include harissa, za’atar, and pomegranate molasses is due in large part to today’s gues...
Cookbookery Catch-Up: September 2026
Hello, and welcome to your monthly wrap-up, where I share links to the posts I sent out over the past few weeks in case you missed any.
And what a month! Not only did Cookbookery readers receive the massive Fall Preview, almost 200 books...
Nik Sharma Turned a Panic Room Into a Cookbook Library
The new cookbook Fundamentals of Flavor (Bookshop/Amazon) written by Nik Sharma and published by Chronicle is proudly science-y. The subtitle is “100 Recipes for the Science of Better Cooking,” after all! The book is organized around Fire,...
Fall Cookbook Takeaways for Aspiring Authors
If you missed my live conversation with this afternoon, you can catch up here! We focused on my fall preview of nearly 200 cookbooks and what takeaways aspiring authors could glean from it. We touched on single subject books, backlist titl...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Creator of the Cookbookery Collective Cookbook newsletter, author of The Foreign Correspondent's Wife—a historical mystery out Oct 20—and food director at Real Simple.
Author of the multiple-award winning book Will Write for Food. Writing coach, speaker and teacher. Writer of a free Substack newsletter on food writing best practices, with access to agents and editors: https://diannejacob.substack.com/
Senior literary agent specializing in cookbooks and select non-fiction. Writer of The Not So Secret Agent Substack newsletter. Taco enthusiast. Mom. Improviser. she/her
Author of Headnotes: Thoughts on Cookbook Design. James Beard and IACP recognized book designer, creative director, and creative consultant with more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry.
Writer and Culinary World-builder. Hospitality Insider. Valued Partner on Memoir-driven Projects. Collaborating with Legacy Brands & The Big Five Publishers. Let's Build Your World ↴
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