After four years of cooking and a few name changes, we’re proud to announce the release of our first cookbook!
We’ve taken recipes both old and new and put them into a year’s worth of easy entertaining menus, so from a casual comfort food spread to a romantic dinner for two, you will have a collection of recipes, entertaining tips and techniques at your fingertips.
The Gilded Fork Entertaining at Home: A Year of Dinner Parties
Now more than ever, people are looking for economical ways to entertain, and we’re always up for a friendly gathering at home. We’ve been bringing you our popular Mise en Place menus for the past couple of years to help you take your hosting skills to a new level.
If you’re tactile like us, however, you know there’s nothing quite so satisfying as a tangible cookbook — one we can take with us into the kitchen instead of the printed pieces of paper that always end up crumpled and stained (hey, we like to get involved with our work).
In true CMN/social media style, we’re going it on our own to self-publish and promote the book. Here’s where the fun comes in: We are incredibly grateful for your support and encouragement — so we want you to be involved! This is not about us just putting out a book — we want your input, and for you to be a part of this important step in our evolution.
There are a number of ways for you to get involved and/or show your support:
- Recipe testing: Help us make our recipes the best they can be. We’ll credit you in the book, with links to your site/blog/social media page.
- Photos: Shoot the finished product after testing the recipe for us. Help the recipes look pretty, too, and we’ll give you photo credit(s) in the book.
- Spread the word: This is the most important one. Please tell your friends and family about us, Twitter it, Facebook it, make a video, share our blog posts and generally shout our news from the rooftops (or just whisper it quietly to your best friend in the next cubicle).
- Pre-orders: We will make the book available for pre-orders in April, with a special discount for early birds.
We’ll post updates as we progress, but you can follow along on your own by subscribing to our free RSS feed. If you’d like to participate in testing or photography, please contact us at info@culinarymedianetwork.com. See you in the kitchen!
UPDATE 2/24: Thank you! We’ve had such an amazingly overwhelming response to our call for recipe testers! We now have more than 50 people helping us with this phase, and we’re so thankful. We never imagined we’d get such a response. So we’re set for now, but rest assured we will be reaching out again soon for the next step in the process.
February 18th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
So excited!!! Can’t wait to order it! I could totally help with recipe testing! That would be so fun!
February 18th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Can’t wait to order it! I’m totally there to help out with the receipe testing!! Good job!
February 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Thank you ladies! We’d be delighted to have your help! Stay tuned for announcements.
February 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Exciting! I’d be very happy to “help out in the kitchen”, so to speak. Please keep me informed re recipe testing!
February 18th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Long overdue….can’t wait for my copy! And you know I will do ANYTHING to help you out! xoxo
February 18th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
That’s great news! We look forward to testing some recipes at home with dinner guests and spreading the word among our friends.
February 18th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
I would love to help with recipe testing!
February 18th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Thank you ALL so MUCH for your eagerness and willingness to help! We’re so heartened that so many people are eager to have a book from these pages. It proves to us the power of social media, and that passionate people with a dream can change the world just a little bit and make it more tasty!
If you haven’t already, please shoot us an email at info@culinarymedianetwork.com so that we can add your names to our list of volunteer recipe testers, and we’ll email back soon with how it will all work.
Thanks again!
February 18th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I would love to test recipes. I also love photographing food. How do I sign up?
Kentie
February 19th, 2009 at 6:12 am
Congrats you two! Of course I’d love to help you guys out in all three areas! Count me in!
February 19th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Count me in!
I would thoroughly enjoy cooking and baking
recipes for your upcoming cookbook and take photographs
of the finished product for consideration in your cookbook.
I’ll definitely pre-order the cookbook in April
and will starting spreading the word with other chefs,
clients, family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and
others.
I’ve sent an e mail as directed above and welcome
the potential opportunity to prepare and photograph
some of the recipes if possible!
Mary Jane
February 19th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Thanks again to everyone! Please be sure to send us a note at info@culinarymedianetwork.com so we have your e-mail address, as we’ll be sending out an update in the next few days. We’re delighted to have all of you aboard!
February 19th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Fantastic! I would love to test recipes!!
February 20th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Congrats and best wishes on this new and exciting phase for you both! There must be alot of work ahead but we do this (cook) for fun!
I’m at your service….
February 20th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Love this idea and would be happy to test recipes. I have tried many of your recipes for dinner parties and they are always a hit. Count me in!
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:52 am
Just completed my first test recipe and posted the results (and some photos) at http://www.cc-chapman.com/2009/03/02/poached-pears-with-chocolate-raspberry-sauce-recipe-testing/
Can’t wait to see and read about other people testing out recipes.
March 6th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Not sure if you are still looking for recipe testers, but I am volunteering. Good luck with your cookbook.