What should I name our cookbook?
After all of your good feedback on what I should write next...I decided to do something
entirely different. My father's been telling me for years that I need to
compile our recipes into an in-season, homegrown cookbook, and I've
been ignoring him...but the time finally seemed right! Which means,
you'll soon have several polished recipes in ebook form to enjoy in the
near future. And, in the meantime, I'm in search of the perfect title.
Titles are my weak point,
but they seem to make or break a non-fiction book. I could go with a
boring, literal (but likely to capture keyword searchers) title like
Locavore's Cookbook or In Season Cookbook. I could piggy-back on
possible name-brand recognition with The Walden Effect Table or (if my
publisher says it's okay) The Weekend Homesteader's Kitchen. Or I could
go with something entirely outside-the-box...which I haven't come up
with yet.
Feel free to submit your
title suggestions using the comment form below. To sweeten the pot (and
to continue cleaning out my bookshelves), if I choose your title, I'll
mail you slightly used paperback copies of Moosewood Cookbook, Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning, and Wild Fermentation. I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Just In Time:Using in Season Produce to Fill Your Table
Also, I am loving reading about your work throughout the winter. It is keeping me motivated to fight this yucky weather and get stuff done. Thank you!
The Homestead Habits Cookbook The Homegrown Homestead Cookbook The Walden Homestead Kitchen Reference The Walden Kitchen: a Locavore Homesteader's Guide
In Season: Grow it, Cook it, Eat it. Love your site.
Spice Your Life with Seasonal Cooking. Eating Through the Seasons; with snapshots of recipes. Our Kitchen, through the Seasons. A Year in the Walden Kitchen: Seasonal Cooking. I had to modify some of my first ideas, as they had already been used by someone else.
Healthy Seasonal Eating From Walden's Tempting Table
I've tried your recipe's....I know they are good. Looking forward to the book.
Edith
Maybe something to suggest a companion volume to "Cooking the Working Chicken," like "Cooking the Working Tomato," or something.
Or "Cooking with the Walden Effect,"
or something more grandiose like "Culinary Delights of the Walden Effect."
I was originally going to say "Cooking the Weekend Homesteader," but I don't think that would come off quite right...
Feasting on Life: A Homesteader's Collectibles (or Journey).
Imagine calling a farm "feasting on life farm"?! LOL!
From Backyard to Table: Recipes from the Homestead Garden Serve Your Garden: Recipes from the Walden Effect Homestead Cook Fresh: Recipes That Make the Most of Your Nutritious, Flavorful Homegrown Produce Homestead Cookery: Recipes for Fresh, Flavorful Farm Fare First, Plant the Beans… Recipes for Your Homegrown Garden Produce
Ok I have been reading your blog off and on for a couple years and never comment... but Titles are my thing. I have to post a comment. Did you want to keep your subtitle basically as is? Here goes:
Month-By-Month Meals: How to cook delicious food using in-season, local ingredients.
The EveryMeal Cookbook: How to cook delicious food using in-season, local ingredients.
Eating the Trailerstead: Cooking local in-season meals with Anna Hess.
Here for Dinner: Cooking local in-season meals with Anna Hess.
Changed your subtitle for the last two, just to play with it a bit...
David --- A slight variation of your title (Farmstead Table) appears to be the winner! If you're still reading, drop me an email at anna@kitenet.net with your mailing address and I'll get your books to you ASAP.
Thanks to everyone for such excellent suggestions! It was hard to narrow them down to a single winner!