One of the more popular options we are seeing around the internet is this idea of finding unique ways to pass down family traditions, such as publishing a family cookbook to share your favorite recipes with the next generations. I don’t know about you, but cooking with your grandparents, or parents, was a fun way to spend quality time together while making something delicious for the family.
Whether it was your favorite dessert recipe, or that famous stew that your elder made, we want to help you find a new way to bring together the concept of learning how to publish a family cookbook while mixing family stories into each recipe. Not that everyone has to do that, you can just publish the family recipes without extra tidbits of personal memory stories involved.
With just a few steps, you can easily have your family recipe cards transformed into a beautiful paperback or hardcover book format for future gift giving, or simply to hand down to your children, so they can hand it on to their children, and keep the memory of those before you alive.
Do I have to sell my family recipe cookbook?
There is the choice to sell these cookbooks online as well. Northeast Kingdom Press is capable of helping with your creation from start to finish. We can type your recipes from scanned handwritten recipe cards into a Word document for your review, then format the recipe pages into a book format based on your preferences of paperback size, and then we can help you find a cover designer, or use a design you already have.
Lastly, we then discuss your ultimate goal:
- Do you want to just hand these books down as a gift to close friends and family?
- Do you want to gift these books, while also having them listed to earn money on selling your family recipes and/or stories to the world?
There is no right or wrong answer with this! We simply want to help you achieve your goal of keeping these memories alive. We know all too well how improper storage of handwritten recipes can end up being a mouse-eaten recipe that you can no longer decipher, or mildew and mold taking over a storage space in the old home where recipe cards were stored, destroying the memories forever.
Can you help me put my family recipes into a PDF or Word Document?
We want to help people keep these recipes forever, which is why it’s an excellent idea to get them into a book format. Even having these in a digital PDF file is an option to keep these recipes going generation after generation. We can help you with typing the recipe cards into a document (Word or PDF format) so you can keep the file in your family records on a computer, or personal server, flash drive, etc.
Brandy has helped someone with her family recipes in the past. The client scanned her handwritten family recipe cards into a Google Drive folder, shared the folder with her, and Brandy typed them up into a Google Document for the client to keep in her own records, or to do whatever she wished with those recipes.
Northeast Kingdom Press is focused on helping people from all walks of life find a way to get their story published. It doesn’t matter if you’re looking into how to publish a family cookbook or you need an editor for your book right now; we love helping others in this way with our editing, writing, and publishing skills.
How can I talk to you about publishing my family cookbook?
The first step to family cookbook publishing is to get into our contact form and reach out for a consultation. This is no obligation to work with us; this consult helps us discuss what your vision is and how we may be able to help you. Even if you don’t hire us, our consultations typically leave people with some idea of how they can move forward with their idea.
Our consultations are done over the phone, Zoom, or in-person, depending on what will work best for our schedule and yours. Not only that, but we can only do in-person consultations within a short distance of our home base here in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Your second step will depend on what you wish to move forward with. You can hire us to help type the recipes up first, and go from there, or you can ask for a service proposal to publish your family cookbook with personal stories mixed in. You do not have to include personal stories; it’s just that some people who have published their family cookbooks enjoyed sharing some fond memories within the pages of their cookbook, making it unique in the market of cookbook options.
Honestly, even if you opt to self-publish your family cookbook, we are excited to see what you craft up! If you or someone you know has done this, do share their creation with us. We think it will be fun to share in the excitement that is seeing your family recipes come to life for the world to enjoy as much as you have enjoyed them.