Headnotes: Thoughts on Cookbook Design
Frances Abrantes Baca, Martin Sorge, Jenna HelwigHeadnotes: Thoughts on Cookbook Design is dedicated to essays, interviews, and visual galleries exploring the design and production of cookbooks and other exceptional books on food and drink.
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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.
Enthusiastic home baker. Winner of the Great American Baking Show, streaming now on The Roku Channel. Writer of the Great Bakes newsletter here on Substack. Very flaky.
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.
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