Kate, Kristin, and Molly speak with Maggie Hoffman, host of The Dinner Plan Podcast, about her varied career in food media and what led to her starting her show. Maggie reminiscences about blogging, editing and working at Serious Eats and Epicurious as well as the ever changing landscape of food media. She shares why she began her podcast, the concept behind it and the intimacy allowed by the audio medium. She discusses her hopes and goals for the show, how it relates to her newsletter and the upcoming books and guests she is excited to see featured.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

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Maggie Hoffman

• Podcast: The Dinner Plan Podcast
• Newsletter : The Dinner Plan
• Newsletter: What to Drink
• Instagram: Maggiejhoffman

Maggie's newsletter about starting a podcast

How to Battle Kitchen Burnout (And Still Get Dinner on the Table)

5 Spices, 50 Dishes, by Ruta Kahate

Staples + 5, by Tanorria Askew

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• The One-Bottle Cocktail, by Maggie Hoffman
• Batch Cocktails, by Maggie Hoffman
• Dinner, by Meera Sodha
• The Secret of Cooking, by Bee Wilson
• Perfectly Good Food, by Margaret Li and Irene Li
• Staples + 5, by Tanorria Askew
• Salt Sugar MSG, by Calvin Eng
• What Goes with What, by Julia Turshen
• Ambitious Kitchen, by Monique Volz

Molly and Kristin speak with Corrie Locke-Hardy about their debut cookbook, which pairs their passion for social justice activism and food. Corrie talks about their atypical path towards publication, the unique approaches of their publisher and how the 'figure it out as you go' method worked during the book's creation. Corrie shares how they balanced the various tones of the book, why they focused on the recipes they did, how they worked with the team on its production, distribution, and promotion, and the project they hope to work on in the future.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

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Corrie Locke

• Website: The Tiny Activist
• Instagram: The Tiny Activist
  

The Washington Women's Cookbook

Sally Ekus

Raspberry Bow Press

High-Five Books

The Revolution Will Be Well Fed, by Corrie Locke-Hardy

Episode 85: A Juneteenth Cookbook for Kids with Alliah Agostini and Taffy Elrod

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In this first episode of Season 7 Kristin, Molly, Kate and Andrea sit down to ask the question: What happens when we start with Who instead of Why? They share the readers they had in mind when they wrote their first books and why its important to identify an audience instead of writing to the market. They share a few tips to research such as demographic data, awareness level and niching down as well as the tools and actions that could be helpful when either identifying or building an audience for a project. Finally they introduce a new Everything Cookbooks offering and tease our upcoming slate of new episodes.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

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Simon Sinek TedX Talk "Start with Why"

Episode 61: Writing a Second Edition with Lukas Volger

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• Why I Cook, by Tom Collichio
• Cooking for Jeffrey by Ina Garten
• Coastal, by Scott Clarke with Betsy Andrews
• Start with Why, by Simon Sinek