first look at recipes from the kitchen daughter

Yesterday, I got what are called "second pass pages" for The Kitchen Daughter. After copyediting, you get a copy of the "first pass pages" to check over the text and layout to make sure all the copy edits have been made correctly. If that's the first pass, from there, you can probably guess what the second pass is for: you're checking that your corrections to the corrections have been made correctly. 

And this is all wonderful stuff. I still get a charge out of seeing the pages laid out formally. Like a real book. Because it is a real book. Wow.

But I particuarly get a charge out of this, which is new: the handwritten recipes.

 

The recipes are so essential to The Kitchen Daughter, both the story and the book, and one of the most important things is that they're handwritten. So for the final book, after looking at a few iterations of "handwriting" fonts, we decided that real handwriting was the only way to go. So here it is.

And it puts a HUGE smile on my face.

 

Comments

[Kari Becker Bonnet]

!!!!!!!

[Jael]

Kari, my thoughts exactly! :)

[Sarah F.]

Whose handwriting? Is it yours?

[Jael]

Yep, that's me, writing like an eight-year-old as best I remember how. (I did almost all of them, since I knew what I was looking for. Most of the handwriting is described in the text, so I had to match that description.)

[Big Bro]

I'm so glad you found a way to work in recipe cards...too perfect :P

[Betty - Reflections with Coffee]

Read and reviewed your ARC. Cannot wait to see the book on the bookstore shelves so that I can actually see the handwritten recipes. Wonderful book --- I'm madly in love with it.