Cookbook

For years I had a cookbook made of typed up recipes held together with a cheap plastic binding.  The book also had recipes cut from newspapers and magazines that I pasted in or tucked in the back.  I divided the book into sections but made no table of contents and no index.  As a result I wasn’t always able to find things in it easily.  When other people in my family used it they definitely couldn’t find recipes easily and they complained about that endlessly.

A few years ago I decided I needed to replace my poor beat up cookbook.  I wrote it anew.  I got rid of the recipes I no longer cared for and added a nice table of contents.  I used my favorite font for the new cookbook — Gill Sans.  I printed it and sewed the signatures then gave the text block to a book maker friend who bound it. 

I still got complaints about the organization of my cookbook and the lack of an index.  After awhile I made an index.  The index helps but it seems some people just like to complain.

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Cookbook was made in an edition of 2. 7.25 x 6 inches. 200 pages of archival inket prints on Zerkall laid paper, hardbound. 2016.