SoWal Cookbook

would love to help. retired high school teachers make good editors - do you think? let me know.

Thanks, BA.

Grayt, funn idea!! Let me know if you need any help! A sowal cookbook just in time for Christmas!!!!

Another quick thought. I don't remember who but a group composed a cookbook from my home town years ago and on each page are pictures of historical homes..blah blah blah. I think it would be cool to have pictures of our favorite area in the cookbook...Western Lake, Seagrove Villas for Miz Darlene, etc...I think peeps would want to purchase for the recipes as well as the sowal pics... random thought!

Love this idea too, Franny! Now, I wonder where we could get some pics???:scratch:

What a fantastic idea! I'm so busy right now (I just started getting back slowly on SoWal.com...) I may not have time to think about this much at all for a few weeks, but life should slow down in 2-3 weeks and I'll have ideas/recipes/stories then (how about my families 4th generation ravioli recipe?).

What a fantastic idea! I'm so busy right now (I just started getting back slowly on SoWal.com...) I may not have time to think about this much at all for a few weeks, but life should slow down in 2-3 weeks and I'll have ideas/recipes/stories then (how about my families 4th generation ravioli recipe?).

I think you have several recipes that you need to share. Hope life slows down for you soon. We've missed you.

(how about my families 4th generation ravioli recipe?).

Yes!

This is a fabulous idea!!!! ----will start compiling and thinking of a name. Although, I like Miss Kitty's idea of "What's Cookin' in SoWal"

To get some ideas for the SoWal cookbok, I've been looking at other cookbooks with recipes submitted by non-chefs. One of them is Pigtails and Froglegs, the Neiman Marcus cookbook with recipes that cater to children's tastes (and in which I have a recipe ).

THE FORWARD WAS WRITTEN BY MICHAEL JACKSON.

To get some ideas for the SoWal cookbok, I've been looking at other cookbooks with recipes submitted by non-chefs. One of them is Pigtails and Froglegs, the Neiman Marcus cookbook with recipes that cater to children's tastes (and in which I have a recipe ).

THE FORWARD WAS WRITTEN BY MICHAEL JACKSON.

I have that cookbook! I am going to go blow the dust off and look for your recipe.

I have that cookbook! I am going to go blow the dust off and look for your recipe.

You gotta move more and not let the dust settle on you while at the keyboard in the first place.

You gotta move more and not let the dust settle on you while at the keyboard in the first place.

;-)...cute. I meant the cookbook. Can't find BR's recipe. Give me a hint, BR.

i'm sure if i were looking i would be looking for beach runner and not her name.:roll:

;-)...cute. I meant the cookbook. Can't find BR's recipe. Give me a hint, BR.

Oh, that was back when I had a different name. ;-)

OOPS! I thought I was in all three of the InCircle cookbooks, but Beach Jacket just reminded me that I wasn't in Pigtails and Froglegs.

Oh, that was back when I had a different name. ;-)

OOPS! I thought I was in all three of the InCircle cookbooks, but Beach Jacket just reminded me that I wasn't in Pigtails and Froglegs.

I looked under Beach Runner and your real name.

I looked under Beach Runner and your real name.

she has a real name?

I'm hosting bunco tomorrow night,who has a very easy but good guacamole dip?? I doing taco type stuff.

Another quick thought. I don't remember who but a group composed a cookbook from my home town years ago and on each page are pictures of historical homes..blah blah blah. I think it would be cool to have pictures of our favorite area in the cookbook...Western Lake, Seagrove Villas for Miz Darlene, etc...I think peeps would want to purchase for the recipes as well as the sowal pics... random thought!

You are totally right. I have my Seaside cookbook that I bought over 10 years ago and I like using the recipes BUT I love looking at the photos! (especially the one of the Natchez pavilion that is no more)

Love this idea too, Franny! Now, I wonder where we could get some pics???:scratch:

Yes that could be a problem...;-)

What a fantastic idea! I'm so busy right now (I just started getting back slowly on SoWal.com...) I may not have time to think about this much at all for a few weeks, but life should slow down in 2-3 weeks and I'll have ideas/recipes/stories then (how about my families 4th generation ravioli recipe?).

Paula, we love your creative juices!! Yum on the ravioli!

This is a fabulous idea!!!! ----will start compiling and thinking of a name. Although, I like Miss Kitty's idea of "What's Cookin' in SoWal"

What a grayt name!!

You are totally right. I have my Seaside cookbook that I bought over 10 years ago and I like using the recipes BUT I love looking at the photos! (especially the one of the Natchez pavilion that is no more)

Me too! Especially certain landmarks that may be gone in the near future..Seaside Post office, especially decorated for Christmas, Seagrove Villas and Seagrove Village Market...I want photos of these for the house.

SoWal Wenches in the Kitchen (Can't really remember how you spell wench/winch? I think wench. What is a wench? Crazy woman on sowal? Refer to sowal dictionary.)

I saw a cook book at Sun Dog that was Skinny B _ _ _ _ in the kitchen.

I'm hosting bunco tomorrow night,who has a very easy but good guacamole dip?? I doing taco type stuff.

Mash up a couple of avocados, and add a fresh salsa (like Chachi's from Publix) and a little minced garlic. Tada! Faux guacamole, and it's really pretty good.

What a great idea I will be glad to help even though I don't live here. I would be happy to be a recipe tester---yum. Let us know when you are ready to get started.

I?ve been doing a lot of research about the proposed SoWal cookbook, timely since our Junior League is rolling out a new cookbook this weekend.

A cookbook in which everyone submits his/her favorite recipes, bound together in some manner, would be a really nice resource for SoWallers. This would work.

However, a coffee-table quality cookbook could be produced that could be a big seller to visitors as well as property-owners in SoWal. Imagine them stacked up along with the other souvenir, coffee-table books at Sundogs.

Therefore, in my opinion, first there needs to be a vision for the cookbook. We need a steering committee to propose some alternative visions. If one believes in a democracy, I think that the SoWal Nation needs to be polled and that the steering committee needs to determine the vision based upon this poll.

If the SoWal Nation decides to go for simple, we can just have funn and bind together a collection of SoWaller?s favorites.

If the decision is to go for a high-quality cookbook, funding will be needed. To get funding the steering committee would need to sell the vision along with a theme to accompany it. The steering committee would also need to decide the target audience. For example, one theme might be ?Beach Food,? that is, ideas for food you might cook at the beach, plus a section of recipes from restaurants from the area. The target audience would be all visitors to SoWal, plus property owners.

Once this is done, the vision would need to be sold in order to get funding. So there would need to be a development chairperson on the steering committee.

While the development committee gets an idea of how much funding is possible, a publisher can be chosen. It takes one-to-two years to get a high-quality cookbook off the ground. Publishers have workbooks to help cookbook committees finalize their themes, decide upon artwork, fonts, colors, etc. So there will also need to be an artistic chairperson to help with that and coordinate entries for the cover.

A form for recipe submissions will have to be decided upon with rules for submission. If this is going to be a high-quality cookbook, there probably should be some taste-testing, and thus someone to chair the taste-testing.

We'll also need a chef-type or uber-foodie to be the culinary chair to sort out the quality of the recipes.

A tedious part is editing the recipes. Cookbook publishers want all style stripped from content and want their own tags inserted for formatting. There will need to be an editor chairperson to take care of these details.

This is just the beginning. There will need to be a marketing chairperson and a sales chairperson once we?re into the process.

It can be funn both ways ? we can do a cookbook just for SoWallers, or we could do something really big. I personally am cool with either option. But if we want to do something really big, I am sure that collectively we have the expertise to make it a success.

Comments?

I was thinking of something like the Junior League cookbooks (River Road Recipes, etc) with a specific charity in mind. You know, they are bound in shiny cardstock and spiral bound. I think that format would sell well in the local shops, and you can still add art - I have a lovely one from Breaux Bridge, I think, with Blue Dog art throughout.

Is that what you are doing for your current Junior League project?