FREE/BARGAIN — Cookbooks

[GtrsRGr8]

An iron skillet is essential in the Southern kitchen. The only real use for one, tho' is for makin' conebread. But this cookbook seems like such a crowd-pleaser, I'ma goin' a post it anyways. I might even havto buy it my self.

4.9 (20) at Amazon; 5.0 (2).

The Southern Cast Iron Cookbook: Comforting Family Recipes to Enjoy and Share. By Elena Rosemond-Hoerr.

$1.99. Can't find no regular price fer some reason.

It's got 230 pages. Their must be a heap of recipes in this here book! Ooo-wee!

https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Cast.../dp/B0713RY5Z2.

A peice of ad vice: Make shore that you cook up a mess o' collard greens, or poke salat to go with yore conebread!

[Cinisajoy]

On the price, it is "not" on sale. The author just reduced the price.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

On the price, it is "not" on sale. The author just reduced the price.

If it has a "***LIMITED TIME PROMOTIONAL PRICE***," that means that it is on sale.

Dictionary.com: "2. able to be bought at reduced prices."

Regardless, this is a "Deals, Freebies, and Resources" thread, not a thread where everything has to be "on sale."

Can't you go annoy someone on the "General Discussions" thread? Check that--I've got recent posts there. How about going to "The Writers' Corner." Yeah, that's a good one.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

If it has a "***LIMITED TIME PROMOTIONAL PRICE***," that means that it is on sale.

Dictionary.com: "2. able to be bought at reduced prices."

Regardless, this is a "Deals, Freebies, and Resources" thread, not a thread where everything has to be "on sale."

Can't you go annoy someone on the "General Discussions" thread? Check that--I've got recent posts there. How about going to "The Writers' Corner." Yeah, that's a good one.

I was just answering why you couldn't find a price.

Now why should I go elsewhere? We have such stimulating conversations.
And I was the first one to answer your thread now in general discussions.

Oh and I didn't pick up the book because I have a ton of Southern cookbooks.

[GtrsRGr8]

I was just messing with you, you know that. To make sure that you knew, I put the .

Oh, btw, when I need stimulation, I drink a couple of cups of espresso.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I was just messing with you, you know that. To make sure that you knew, I put the .

Oh, btw, when I need stimulation, I drink a couple of cups of espresso.

Oh I am so sorry. I should have said silly instead of stimulating.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Oh I am so sorry. I should have said silly instead of stimulating.

Oh, I'm so sorry. When I put the s, I meant to put s, instead.

[koland]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

The Southern Cast Iron Cookbook: Comforting Family Recipes to Enjoy and Share. By Elena Rosemond-Hoerr.

$1.99. Can't find no regular price fer some reason.

Rockridge (the "publisher") does that, as do most indie authors - they can change the price, but don't get a regular digital price listing, from what I've seen.

I generally put Rockridge with the screen scraper "publishers", but looks like they are also doing individual authors now - perhaps as a vanity press? Hard to tell, since they have no web site and barely a facebook page (which is hallmark indication of not being a "real" publisher - no submissions page, no contact info, no pages of authors they publisher, etc). I believe they are a part of Callisto Media, but yet again, it's not easy to verify that anymore (they've updated their pages).

They boast of quick publishing, having what people will buy - nothing about editors, recipe verification, checking for plagiarism, not using stock images for recipes, etc.

ETA: Note that this doesn't mean this particular book isn't a good one. I just generally skip this publisher, but if you follow that particular author's website, you might have a better idea if the recipes will be good. I do wonder that she has 100+ heirloom recipes that were passed down to her. Most recipes of that age date to families that repeated meals week to week and had a few dozen (at most) holiday items to fill out the rest of the year.

[Little.Egret]

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[koland]

Booksumo is another publisher I tend to ignore (seriously, how can "chef maggie chow" have time to cook, as many books as she is writing?). At least they do have a website - http://booksumo.com/ - even if most of their pages just link to Amazon, rather than to their own maintained pages (if you were a real publisher, would you rely on a single retailer to maintain your web presence? to display to your potential authors what you do? Oh wait, they don't have much of anything there for authors, although you can find an email address, if persistent. Their "blog" seems to have not been updated since Fall of last year, also, with every post I checked dating from the first couple of weeks in Oct 2016 or the very tail end of Sept 2016.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by koland

Rockridge (the "publisher") does that, as do most indie authors - they can change the price, but don't get a regular digital price listing, from what I've seen.

I generally put Rockridge with the screen scraper "publishers", but looks like they are also doing individual authors now - perhaps as a vanity press? Hard to tell, since they have no web site and barely a facebook page (which is hallmark indication of not being a "real" publisher - no submissions page, no contact info, no pages of authors they publisher, etc). I believe they are a part of Callisto Media, but yet again, it's not easy to verify that anymore (they've updated their pages).

They boast of quick publishing, having what people will buy - nothing about editors, recipe verification, checking for plagiarism, not using stock images for recipes, etc.

ETA: Note that this doesn't mean this particular book isn't a good one. I just generally skip this publisher, but if you follow that particular author's website, you might have a better idea if the recipes will be good. I do wonder that she has 100+ heirloom recipes that were passed down to her. Most recipes of that age date to families that repeated meals week to week and had a few dozen (at most) holiday items to fill out the rest of the year.

I would have guessed that Rockridge was just a name the author made up. Nice to know they are now a we publish anything for a fee and part of the profits.
On this particular book, the use of the word heirloom was a turnoff.
That and the fact they advertise the sale in the description.

On Booksumo, I have looked at a few of their cookbooks. I deleted all of them from my account.
Very poorly written and if I remember correctly, the recipes were in several different fonts.

[koland]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

On Booksumo, I have looked at a few of their cookbooks. I deleted all of them from my account.

Very poorly written and if I remember correctly, the recipes were in several different fonts.

Also no images, so I suspect most are grabbed from internet, stuffed into one of the recipe programs that computes the nutritional info, then printed out as a formatted page. Most likely never having been tried.

[GA Russell]

Jamaican Recipes - free
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UHW25FY

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by koland

Also no images, so I suspect most are grabbed from internet, stuffed into one of the recipe programs that computes the nutritional info, then printed out as a formatted page. Most likely never having been tried.

I don't think they even do that. It looks like a C&P job to me.

[GA Russell]

Baked Potato Recipes - free
https://www.amazon.com/Baked-Potato-...dp/B00JAYWHAI/