Cooking is NF, right?

It's published by Clarkson Potter which is an imprint of Crown and Random House.

This is their website:

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/clarksonpotter/

You can email them from the site.

Good Luck.

Cooking is NF, right?

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Depends on how well you cook........Sorry that one was just too good to pass up (laughing)

Yes, cooking is considered NF......There has to be some kind of contact info if only where to order it.....if you order it from the company google up the companys tele # and ask for submission guidelines. Try googling cooking mag websites and keep changing search parameters until you stumble upon it (I have a feeling you probably already did this....so if you did sorry). Sometimes you just keep back-tracking until you finally get to the source....sorry for not being more helpful but that's all I've got.

Cooking is shelved as nonfiction, but it's really its own marketing category with its own procedures and requirements. The "standard" (if there is such a thing) means of getting a nonfiction book purchase—the proposal package—doesn't work with cookbooks.

From what I've seen—and keep in mind that, since this is based on litigation, it's from about three years ago, so some things may have changed—the editorial market for cookbooks seems split into three parts: Those who work their way up from the magazines, very much as did fiction writers during the pulp era; those with a specific diet plan and at least some academic credentials in support of that plan; and those who have a strong, strong celebrity connection, whether because they're Charlie Trotter (to pick one celebrity chef) or a personal chef to a bunch of Hollywoodites. The mere "good cook" just doesn't seem to be on the radar for book-length works, at least not three years ago, and I'm not seeing a lot of signs of change (admittedly, it's something I keep track of only casually, as the litigation in question terminated favorably a few months back).