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Posted 1 year ago at 10:00 am. 19 comments
Food That Rocks” was co-written by Margie Lapanja and myself in 2004. Part entertainment, part cookbook our goal was to create a book that would be fun to read while actually preparing one of the artist’s recipes. In addition to delicious recipes, it’s packed with juicy tidbits like what do the artits recommend you listen to while preparing their favorite meal, and what do they require backstage during their shows. Our intention was to give the reader an opportunity to get to know the musician while they’re preparing their recipe!
Writing Food That Rocks
It was great fun to write. We got some wacky recipes! Many came handwritten without any ingredient amounts, or cooking times or temperatures. Thank goodness Margie had prior cookbook experience! Some of them are pretty funny as well. There are some really great personalties that shine through. The musicians were so much fun to work with. That was probably the best part of writing the book… For me anyway.
Margie and I split the writing down the middle. We would write our intros and swap them for the other to comment on. It worked very well for us. We divided other duties up. Margie did the recipes and I took care of permissions, etc.
“Food That Rocks” was written for charity. To benefit Freedom From Hunger. Our intention was to be able to give back in big way and present them with a large check. Unfortunately, things didn’t pan out quite as we visualized, but we’re still hoping to give them a nice big check one day. We ran into some obstacles along the way.
One of the biggest obstacles was having our publisher be sold half way through the writing of our book. Our new publishers inherited something like 50 books and only 1 extra staff person, so they were stretched pretty thin. I also don’t think the “got” our book in the same way our original publisher did. They thought it was a cookbook, which it partly is. The problem is, bookstores want cookbooks to be all about the recipes and “Food That Rocks” is more about the musician’s contributing the recipes. Some of the recipes are fabulous, some are kind of silly. They don’t necessarily compare with Julia Child if you know what I mean.
We had fantastic reviews and some extremely successful book signings. The book signings were great fun! Depending on the location they were held, we had musicians on hand to sign their recipe pages as well. We also did a lot of very fun radio interviews. I remember having to be wide awake at 4:00 am to do live morning radio shows on the East coast. Those were tough! It was pretty disappointing that our book didn’t fly off the bookshelves, but I am proud of it and extremely grateful for the experience I had participating in the whole process. I learned so much and I got to meet some wonderful people.
Cindy Coverdale & Margie Lapanja
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