When I tell them what I do, people who don’t write cookbooks are curious about how they’re made, especially when a book has recipes from multiple contributors. And since the
Portland Farmers Market Cookbook isn’t my first collection of other chefs’ recipes, I think I’ve gotten better not only at putting such a book together, but explaining the mechanics of how that happens.
My other “collaborative” cookbook project was for the Chefs Collaborative. It included 115 recipes from chefs scattered across the country, and rounding up those recipes was a bit like, well, herding chefs. Definitely a challenge. For this book, I wanted to highlight the entire market community: Portland Farmers Market vendors, chefs, and shoppers.
I started to think about writing a
Portland Farmers Market Cookbook during my...