I received the most flattering email today.....

[catherine]

Very exciting to get that kind of validation from someone you respect! Congrats!

[SteveinMN]

Cool! And well-deserved!

[Lainey]

Good for you, Blackdog Lin. Sounds like there has been great feedback from others to that editor as well. Have fun with it!

[Dhiana]

That's really wonderful!

Why not take it seriously? Sounds like you already have a passion for cooking, an ability to put a repeatable recipe together, you have a big fan with 300,000+ fans backing him up so why not go for it?

What if even .333 % of those 300,000 fans bought your cookbook? That's a 1000 cookbooks! Plus a couple more from Simple Living

In your response email, ask him if he can connect you with someone who has successfully put together a cookbook.

[Blackdog Lin]

Thank you all for the good wishes. And Happy New Year's Eve.

[Gregg]

That's awesome Lin! When's dinner?

[Tussiemussies]

So great to be validated! Country cooking is big! Look what Paula Deen had done!

[Spartana]

.....from a big blog (300,000+ visits/week) that I have submitted an article or two and many recipes to. The editor actually sent me a personal note today, in response to one of my recipes submitted, in essence asking "why I've never done a cookbook of these recipes?" He said he loved posting them.

I still haven't composed a coherent answer to it - have to get that done tomorrow. I'm thinking the answer is (a) I never really thought about my old homestyle recipes being, oh, relevant, to today's cooking styles; and (b) I guess I never knew how to, even if it had occurred to me to do so.

But I am super flattered that he sent a personal note to ask. I'm sure it will go nowhere - but I'm kind of on cloud 9 tonight and thought y'all might share in my little excitement.

Congrats BDL! Very cool and I think you should do it. I actually think that more and more people are looking for more down-to-earth cooking styles now more then ever. The "deconstructed fusion of rosemary and orange essence scented foam in truffle shavings" trend is interesting but gets old after awhile. I think people are longing for some real food recipes.