As a cookbook editor...
I am a member of Yokohama International Women's Club (YIWC). In 2000, an interest group was organized for recipe sharing. As this group began to talk and meet, we soon realized that we could collect enough recipes to write an international cookbook.
The more recipes that the group collected, there became a pattern. We selected a topic that became the theme for the cookbook. The idea of preparing food that could be taken out of the home was chosen. The group decided that Food for Furoshiki would become the title… Our next task was thinking of the chapters of the book that would carry on the theme.
I volunteered to become the English Editor of the cookbook. Another member, who was Japanese, became the Co-Editor.
As the typing began, looking at a specific style was important. Some conversion of recipes was necessary to keep measurements uniform. How to make every recipe appear in the same type of template, using the same descriptive words was important.
To help make the cookbook more useful, additional sections such as a glossary of vocabulary was added with foreign words translated into Japanese. Another fun part was to put in a list of tips. These additional sections kept me busy because being the Editor meant that I was actually designing the cookbook.
We were so lucky to have an artist draw some illustrations for the cookbook. These illustrations were placed on the chapter dividers. Another volunteer on the committee made some smaller illusrations which could be placed throughout the pages of the book. YIWC found a printer who helped with making the book complete... color covers, binding, paper and ink color, and the ISBN number made the Food for Furoshiki were the finishing touches towards completing the book.
Members of YIWC sold the book to their family, friends, and contacts. There were even colleges in the area that taught cooking and added the book to their classes, too.
This was not the first cookbook that YIWC had made. I was given a copy of a previous cookbook. Thinking that there would be the second cookbook was exciting. However, just recently… another cookbook for YIWC that was published many, many years before was discovered. One of the Honorary Life Members of YIWC gave me a copy of both of the previously compiled cookbooks. So… actually, Food for Furoshiki is their third cookbook.
Food for Furoshiki has 250 recipes and is 250 pages. YIWC printed 800 copies of the cookbook Food for Furoshiki and it was such a success that all of the copies were sold. All of the proceeds went towards the charities that they support.
I love to collect cookbooks. Now... I feel so lucky because are 3 YIWC cookbooks in my cookbook collection!
More later…
The more recipes that the group collected, there became a pattern. We selected a topic that became the theme for the cookbook. The idea of preparing food that could be taken out of the home was chosen. The group decided that Food for Furoshiki would become the title… Our next task was thinking of the chapters of the book that would carry on the theme.
I volunteered to become the English Editor of the cookbook. Another member, who was Japanese, became the Co-Editor.
As the typing began, looking at a specific style was important. Some conversion of recipes was necessary to keep measurements uniform. How to make every recipe appear in the same type of template, using the same descriptive words was important.
To help make the cookbook more useful, additional sections such as a glossary of vocabulary was added with foreign words translated into Japanese. Another fun part was to put in a list of tips. These additional sections kept me busy because being the Editor meant that I was actually designing the cookbook.
We were so lucky to have an artist draw some illustrations for the cookbook. These illustrations were placed on the chapter dividers. Another volunteer on the committee made some smaller illusrations which could be placed throughout the pages of the book. YIWC found a printer who helped with making the book complete... color covers, binding, paper and ink color, and the ISBN number made the Food for Furoshiki were the finishing touches towards completing the book.
Members of YIWC sold the book to their family, friends, and contacts. There were even colleges in the area that taught cooking and added the book to their classes, too.
This was not the first cookbook that YIWC had made. I was given a copy of a previous cookbook. Thinking that there would be the second cookbook was exciting. However, just recently… another cookbook for YIWC that was published many, many years before was discovered. One of the Honorary Life Members of YIWC gave me a copy of both of the previously compiled cookbooks. So… actually, Food for Furoshiki is their third cookbook.
Food for Furoshiki has 250 recipes and is 250 pages. YIWC printed 800 copies of the cookbook Food for Furoshiki and it was such a success that all of the copies were sold. All of the proceeds went towards the charities that they support.
I love to collect cookbooks. Now... I feel so lucky because are 3 YIWC cookbooks in my cookbook collection!
More later…
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