For the past two years, I have been working on my new book Your Iowa Grandmother's Recipe Book. The book actually began as an idea for a coffee table book, where a fictional grandmother relayed to her granddaughter how each recipe came into being. I had planned these little stories to be just snippets of fiction interspersed with beautiful photographs of food and landscapes of Iowa. Well, then I began to think of stories from my own family and our recipes and I soon realized there was no way this could be a serious cookbook. I have no frame of reference for serious. My own grandmother is a bit of a crazy person (in a good way!) and my mother and her siblings followed in her footsteps. I had a lot of great material to work with, but the book definitely needed to evolve. After many revisions, and critiques, and invaluable input from readers (especially my best reader, my husband Joe) the final incarnation of the book was born. Contact me at [email protected]