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Cookbook Publishing

Turn Your Recipes Into a Professionally Published Cookbook

Publish a cookbook that looks as good as your recipes taste. Outskirts Press provides professional book design, full-color and black & white publishing, multiple print formats, worldwide distribution, and personalized publishing support.

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Made for Cookbooks

Publishing Options Designed Around Your Recipes

From treasured family recipes to professional culinary guides, cookbooks have specialized design and production needs. Create a book that presents your recipes clearly, beautifully, and professionally.

Beautiful Full-Color Printing

Showcase food photography, ingredients, illustrations, and other visual elements in vivid full color.

Professional Book Layout & Design

Organize recipes, ingredients, instructions, and images into an attractive, easy-to-follow interior.

Flexible Book Formats

Choose from popular cookbook trim sizes with paperback and hardback options, including square and landscape books.

Worldwide Distribution

Make your cookbook available through an extensive network of online retailers, wholesalers, and distribution channels.

Choose Your Publishing Path

Cookbook Publishing Options

Whether your cookbook is filled with colorful food photography or focuses primarily on recipes and instructions, choose the publishing option that best fits your content and creative vision.

Full-color cookbook publishing

Full-Color Publishing

An excellent choice for cookbooks featuring food photography, colorful ingredients, illustrations, or visual instructions.

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Black and white cookbook publishing

Black & White Publishing

An economical choice for recipe collections and cookbooks that do not require full-color interior photography.

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One-Click Publishing and Marketing Suite for cookbook authors

Want Publishing and Marketing Bundled Together?

The Cookbook One-Click Publishing & Marketing Suite combines professional full-color publishing with editing, custom design, enhanced interior formatting, hardback publishing, and cookbook-focused marketing services in one comprehensive package.

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Size & Format Options

Recommended Cookbook Trim Sizes

Cookbooks often benefit from larger pages that provide plenty of room for ingredients, instructions, photographs, illustrations, and other visual elements. Choose from popular portrait, square, and landscape sizes to create a format that complements the way your cookbook will be used and enjoyed.

Paperback and hardback options are available, with your choice of glossy or matte cover finishes.

Recommended cookbook trim sizes including 7 by 10, 8 by 10, 8.5 by 11, 8.5 by 8.5 square, and 11 by 8.5 landscape
Free guide to cookbook self-publishing
Free Cookbook Publishing Guide

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Start planning your cookbook with helpful information about publishing your recipes professionally.

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Cookbook Layout & Design

Make Every Recipe Easy to Read and Enjoy

Interior formatting is especially important for cookbooks. Ingredients, instructions, photographs, notes, and special features need to work together to create an attractive and functional experience in the kitchen.

Outskirts Press offers multiple levels of professional book layout and design that can be tailored to the needs of your cookbook.

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Don't have photographs for every recipe? Custom illustrations or professionally sourced imagery can add visual interest and personality to your cookbook's interior.

Stock imagery examples for professionally designed cookbooks
Customize Your Publishing Plan

Professional Services for Your Cookbook

Add the professional publishing and marketing services that best support your recipes, presentation, audience, and publishing goals.

Award-Winning Cookbooks

Cookbooks Worth Celebrating

Outskirts Press authors have earned recognition for professionally published cookbooks covering cuisines, traditions, techniques, and family recipes.

Award-winning cookbooks published by Outskirts Press
Cookbook Author Experiences

What Cookbook Authors Say About Outskirts Press

Cookbook author Chansophy Anhaouy
★★★★★
“I would like to say thank you to everyone at Outskirts Press who has made my dream come true. I really like everyone at Outskirts Press. They are very nice and helpful. I was so thrilled when I received my book.”
Chansophy Anhaouy
Cookbook author Uma Aggarwal
★★★★★
“I really liked their positive attitude and encouragement. Their patience and their support during publishing is greatly appreciated.”
Uma Aggarwal

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