Making Cookbooks

Stories and photos from the photo shoot for True Brews, out May 2013, are shared by the author, Emma Christensen.

The words “sweet cream” and “sugar cones” can only bring a smile to faces and a hankering for ice cream in the belly. The book, Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones (Ten Speed Press, April 2012) by Kris Hoogerhyde, Anne Walker, and Dabney Gough, will have just the same effect. The ladies behind one of San Francico’s most popular ice cream spots – Bi-Rite Creamery – are sharing secrets to their small-batch, handcrafted, show-stopping treats, including the recipe for their legendary Salted Caramel ice cream! Take a bite out of Bi-Rite with this adorable video made by the White on Rice Couple and recipes from an excerpt on Scribd.

For editor Lisa Westmoreland, Victoria Belanger’s new book Hello, Jell-O! brings back those nostalgic aspics of the fifties and Jell-O treats of the eighties–but with a modern wink.

Japanese culinary authority Elizabeth andoh wondered what she could do to help those in the devastated Tohoku region. Eager to preserve the area’s rich culinary heritage while nourishing the morale of displaced residents, she began writing KIBŌ (“Brimming with Hope”): Recipes & Stories from Japan’s Tohoku (Ten Speed Press, February 2012). Read in Elizabeth’s own words about the birth of Kibo, an eBook original from Ten Speed Press.

We went to The Slanted Door for the video shoot for Chef-Owner Charles Phan’s upcoming book, Vietnamese Home Cooking. And it gets better–the White on Rice Couple are creating the video!