In addition to everything else, we're creating a whole series of new cookbooks that utilize our revolutionary cookbook design--inspired by necessity, the mother of all cooking. With recipes organized into three separately searchable sections, users simply flip up a dish from each category, and there you have it, a balanced meal as Easy as 1- 2 - 3!
StandUp Cookbooks:
won't slam shut while reading a recipe
take up little valuable counter space
offer a menu of your own choosing
no flipping back and forth between pages
realistic photos of each dish
culinary degree not required
well-tested recipes actually work
kitchen-proof, wipe-clean pages
There may be more to life than just cooking, food and fun, but you wouldn't know it from hanging out with us.
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Simply flip up a recipe from each category, and there you have it, a balanced meal as easy as 1 - 2 - 3!
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Attention, StandUp Chefs
Filming starts June 4th!
If you would like to come out to the Hamptons and be part of filming, we would love to have you here. Interested parties should contact Christina as soon as possible.
What are we filming, you ask?
the pilot for the TV show
segments for 'How Do You Iron Chef' for the FoodNetwork
advertisements to be aired on YouTube and other internet locations
Christina Arneson, Publisher & Editorial Director, StandUp
March 27th, 2007
Thank you for your interest in StandUp&Cook!
Getting published, and published well, really isn't as hard as the traditional publishing world wants you to believe.
I know, I've worked in the industry for years. A great book needs an individual, not to become the product of a writing machine, which is what we are seeing in publishing today. And why? Because publishing companies were all bought up by media conglomerates who do not understand that in order for a publisher to survive, half of the revenue needs to come from good books that will backlist instead of the forced "synergistic" titles they pump out to appease their media relations.
Honestly, most of publishing today is a bit sad and desperate.
So we're going to do it a little differently over here. We're reversing the food chain.
Our focus is on the individual, our members. You join us and our staff at StandUp helps make sure your book is the best book it can be. I started my literary agency as a means to indulge myself by only working with unpublished authors. It was a way for me to see how far I could take them. My first client was nominated for the National Book Award. She was 24 and had never written a book before. My clients went on to win a variety of awards and hit numerous bestseller lists. In fact two of them were on Oprah, and both, never before published.
So, the next logical step was to start my own publishing company, a company with a *twist.*
At StandUp, we've decided to amass a small group of people with the desire to be part of this new venture in publishing. It's somewhat like a publishing club. To become a member, sign up.
Hope to hear from you soon. Join, send me an email telling me about yourself, and then check back here for instructions from your fearless leader.....
XXCA
participate in life, speak when you believe, make fun out of living, stand up!
Who wants to create their own product line? I did it, and I'll show you how. Whether for gifting or selling, it's loads of fun.
There I am at my store,
Gourmet Goods
epicurean gifts & provisions
Westhampton Beach, NY
If you're going to hang with us, you are going to learn a variety of fun and exciting things like presentation, food styling and culinary photography.
Visit www.christinaarneson.com for more information about our Writer's Conferences and Workshops
Consider contributing to or writing individual titles in these exciting new series:
SASE Press
(the Short Attention Span Experts)
Access Media
Media Access Made Easy
Wise Guides
information for living
I confess, I wrote this book.
Read the Intro to
THE THINGS I LEAVE BEHIND
the newest title from Carol Stigger, StandUp's Culinary Travel Editor
I've locked the suitcase and hoisted my backpack onto my shoulders. As usual, it is too heavy and the straps dig trenches in my skin. With a shove, it will fit in the overhead bin of the jet. I avoid looking in the bedroom mirror. Looking like a grandmother is okay, but I am afraid I will start talking to me like I am my mother. Doing something new at my age is as inevitable and as difficult to defend as the drastic life change I made at forty when I went from farm-town wife to foreign reporter. But now I know the risks and that this journey will change me in ways I cannot imagine now. The woman in the mirror will tell me I have done enough. She will tell me that it is time to settle down, gather up my memories to drape around my children and their children to comfort them when nothing seems to change and one day seems like the next. Isn't that what matriarchs are for, to warm the chilly places of the heart with wisdom articulated over a teapot covered with a hand knit cozy?
I do not knit. The only time "neat" applies is the way I take my whiskey. I don't match socks or fold sweaters, count change or arrange spices in alpha order. Loose ends tickle me like a Latin lover with a peacock feather. Every trip I lose an attitude or several along with shoes, shampoo, and tee shirts. People like me are born messy, disorganized. We never learn to look before we leave. Once, this trait embarrassed me, but now it eases me into the chaos, a kindred spirit rather than a church lady clucking up a clothing drive to cover bare breasts in the tropics.
The story is not the souvenirs. The story is the things I leave behind. I’ve littered the world with grief over my dead mother; rage at my ex-husband, anger at my father, my aunt, a friend; fear of growing old; and a once unspeakable pain. Each loss frees me to more fully embrace my global family; no matter what language they speak, no matter how strange their ways. And through these encounters, I unburden myself.
If there is a tea cozy in my future, that's another book. This is the book I am leaving behind for my children to read. Perhaps it will explain why I am not ready to commandeer the rocking chair and appoint myself the benign and comforting presence thirty-something adults expect in a parent. I am not wise enough to steer them through their midlife crises. I want them to discover there is a journey they need to take, a vessel they must board with their name on it, not mine. I want them to learn to travel light and to not be afraid to lose the baggage that stands between them and a fully lived life.
My tea cozy stories are on the other side of India and maybe beyond that. At fifty, that's scary to admit, but fear never stopped me before. My plane ticket is in my backpack, my passport is in my hand. The limo driver has delivered me to the airport before and greets me like an old friend. Halfway to O'Hare, I yell, “Oh, No!” The driver nods as I explain that I forgot to pack aspirin, toothpaste, my Swiss army knife. He reaches under the seat, hands me the paperback book and granola bars I left in his car on my way to Sierra Leone.
"You're the woman who leaves things behind," he says.
"Yes, sir. That's me."
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