146: Cookbookery Collective with Jenna Helwig
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Kristin and Kate welcome the food director of Real Simple, Jenna Helwig, to discuss her newsletter, The Cookbookery Collective, and her thoughts on the current cookbook landscape. Jenna shares her career path, why she fell in love with food and how she paired writing cookbooks with working as a private chef. She talks about covering food at Real Simple, the role magazines play in our current food media climate and her thoughts on building a social media presence and how that led to starting her newsletter. After talking about assembling the massive list of Fall 2025 titles she shares some thoughts on marketing copy, subtitles, influencer cookbooks and the upcoming trends she's excited (or not so excited) to see. Finally she extends some advice and reveals her level of interest in writing another book.
Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen
Editor: Abby Cerquitella
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Jenna Helwig
Join The Local Palate Cookbook Club
Visit the Everything Cookbooks Bookshop to purchase a copy of any books mentioned in the show
Bare Minimum Dinners by Jenna Helwig
Baby-Led Feeding by Jenna Helwig
Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh
Dorie's Anytime Cakes by Dorie Greenspan
Six Seasons of Pasta by Josh McFadden
Recipes from the American South by Michael Twitty
Good Things by Samin Nosrat
Hot Date by Rawaan Alkhatib
Chesnok by Polina Chesnakova