a community cookbook for world central kitchen

$6 for 20 autumnal-ish recipes from chefs and culinary creatives

Introducing Mixtures: Volume 1, an interactive digital cookbook inspired by the liminal space between summer and autumn. For the same cost as an overpriced coffee, get 20 recipes by talented chefs and culinary creatives. Also, if you live in NYC, stay tuned for a potluck-style event in mid-November (purchasing the book gets you access to RSVP)!

Proceeds from this cookbook will be donated to World Central Kitchen, an organization providing food aid to communities impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises.

Infinite thanks to all contributors:

• jamie
  Rothenberg / @foodjars

• Srishti Jain
  / @srishti.jpg

• Musashi Osaki and Jasmine Stoy / @madebymusashi

• Lynn Miller / @oseyoaustin

• Halley Zelicoff / @halleyz

• Audrey Marcum / @audreys.table

• Jenny Rosenstrach
  / @dinneralovestory

• Christine Han / @dearsaturdays

• Edouard Massih
  / @edymassih

• Michele Connors-Kowalski / @hawthornevalley

• sami
  (Sam Fuchs) / @pistachiomilkmatcha

• Casey Elsass
  / @caseyelsass

• Stacey Mei Yan Fong
  / @staceymeiyanfong

• Ali Domrongchai / @alidomrongchai

• Abi Balingit / @theduskykitchen

• Bianca Fernandez / @bitesbybianca

• Dana King
  / @danabydana

• Allison Sheehan / @alliecakes.world

• Kenji
  Morimoto/ @kenjcooks

And of course, special shoutout to Alex and Conor at Recipe.Site for teaming up with me on this.

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This community cookbook was my summer project. I love an assignment and was always good at school and homework. Even in my day job, I get so much satisfaction from taking an idea from conception to completion, writing a project plan and executing with a team. That, paired with the fact that I exhaust a lot of headspace thinking about the ways that I can stop being a cog in the capitalist machine and direct my energy and time towards things that I care about in the real world… had me thinking about a community cookbook.

Community cookbooks aren’t a new concept. In 1864, A Poetica Cookbook by Maria J Moss was published and sold to subsidize medical costs for soldiers injured in the civil war. With a simple Google search, you can find tons of community cookbooks in the Library of Congress, an archive of 400 LA-based community cookbooks, and many more. The common thread unifying these cookbooks is they were written almost always by women and for the purpose of raising money. Cookbooks are more than a catalog of recipes — they can be fundraisers, political pamphlets and historical accounts of the communities they served.

Thankfully, Recipe.Site already had all of the infrastructure to write and publish recipes in an elegant and functional format including but not limited to timers, serving size scaling, US/Metric conversions, and hands-free modes. I swear this is not a Recipe.Site ad. Most food blog widgets are outdated and Recipe.Site is the perfect tool for both recipe writers and people who love to cook at home from a phone, tablet or laptop.

I pitched the idea of a community cookbook to Alex at Recipe.Site and he was immediately on board. I wrote a plan, set a deadline, reached out to contributors talented chefs (many whom I am now privileged to call friends), and tested a bulk of the recipes in my own kitchen. We went back and forth on visuals and a name… and MIXTURES is what we came up with, the combination of two or more things in any proportion (in this case, incredible food people).

So yeah, we published a community cookbook and I’m so proud to share it with you! I hope you love it <3.