How to Write a Cookbook

Celebrating Women

Many of us have wooden boxes or binders stuffed with favorite recipes to remind us of the people, places, and occasions that shape our lives. What if you could polish the best of those gems and organize them into a keepsake cookbook? Learn how to fix up your recipes into one cohesive cookbook and write your own stories and descriptions. Susan will also cover how to traditionally publishing self-publishing your cookbook.

About Susan: Susan Puckett is a James Beard-nominated food journalist and editor who has authored or collaborated on more than a dozen books. Her culinary travelogue, Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler’s Journey Through the Soul of the South (UGA Press, 2013) was chosen as one of ten books all Georgians should read by the Georgia Center for the Book, as was Turnip Greens & Tortillas: A Mexican Chef Spices Up the Southern Kitchen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018), which she wrote with Eddie Hernandez, chef of the Taqueria del Sol restaurants in Georgia and Tennessee. Her most recent collaboration with the popular Alpharetta, Georgia-based blogger Suzy Karadsheh, The Mediterranean Dish: 120 Bold and Healthy Recipes You’ll Make on Repeat (Potter, 2022) was released in September 2022 and became a New York Times bestseller. Susan was the food editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for nearly 19 years and today, as a freelance writer and editor, contributes to its Food section and other media outlets. She has worked with several home cooks on self-publishing their family recipe collections and with a nonprofit, DIG Development in Gardening, on organizing mini booklets of healthy no-waste recipes for their fundraisers.

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