154: Cookbook Writing is a Long Game

Dec 31, 2025
45 mins

Episode Description

Kristin, Molly, Andrea and Kate look back at the cookbook media landscape of 2025 and discuss the Anthropic settlement, their thoughts about AI in the food media sphere and share their inclinations about its usage. Each of the hosts share some wins they had this year with Kristin speaking about working on the Turtle Island book and Andrea joining in to share her thoughts on finding balance in collaboration projects. With a dash of astrology and numerology each host reveals what keeps them following this creative path and what they've let go of over the years along with the role persistence and perseverance plays in this journey. Finally they end the episode by sharing some of the books, people and ideas they are excited to follow into 2026.

 

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella


 

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Join The Local Palate Cookbook Club

Anthropic Settlement

AI Duped My Cookbook and Made a Mess, by Adam Erace

Kristin Donnelly on Co-Writing One of the Year's Biggest Books from Cookbookery Collective

 

Visit the Everything Cookbooks Bookshop to purchase a copy of the books mentioned in the show

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