Want Your Name in Bread & Wine? It's Recipe-Testing Time!

Okay, here’s the fun part!

Bread & Wine is so close to being finished—early next week it will go to the copy-editor, and we'll start working on marketing and PR & release plans then, too—all the last little details. Eek!

One big looming bundle of details is the recipes. Obviously, I’ve never included recipes in a book before, and I’m not a cookbook writer, so I want to make sure I’m doing everything I can to make the recipes clear and easy to follow and, most important, delicious.

That’s where you come in. Want to test a recipe for us?

Here’s how it works: send us an email, and Brannon (my dear friend/college roommate/best assistant ever in the universe) will send you instructions, questions, and a recipe. You’ll make the recipe and then answer a few questions—you know like, is it delicious? Was the recipe clear? 

When you send your feedback back to us, we put your name in the actual book as an official recipe tester. Cool, huh?

You absolutely don’t have to be a great cook to test a recipe for us—in fact, the point of putting the recipes in the book is to get non-cooks into the kitchen, using their hands, trying and failing, figuring it out along the way.

So send us an email, and in your email, please include the following:

1. Your name as you'd like it to appear in Bread & Wine.

2. Any dietary restrictions or preferences—do you eat gluten free? Are you a vegetarian? Would you prefer to test a soup or a dessert or a main course?

We’ll make sure to work with your restrictions, and we’ll do our best with your preferences. The early bird definitely gets the worm here--the first emails we receive will have the most options in terms of recipes.

There are about 25 recipes, so we need about 25 testers—thanks SO much for being willing to help us!

We need your feedback by October 15th, so you’d need to cook and get back to us by then in order to be included in the book.

Thanks times one million times infinity for your help on this!

Love & bread & wine--

Shauna

Update: we've got loads and loads of recipe testers--thanks so much for all your emails! We'll send out recipes by the end of the week...

Thanks & love, S