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Hey, it's Francis. You know, I have another job. I work in book publishing too, and so I know how much work and creativity goes into every cookbook. And I also know how short the window can be for those books to be discovered before the next batch of titles comes along. So this episode is an encore from one we did last year,

celebrating some of the most exciting cookbooks of that spring. And maybe you didn't know then

how much you'd be cooking now. So hopefully you get inspired to check some of these authors out.

I'm Frances Lamb and you're listening to The Splendid Table from APM.

This is the show for curious cooks and eaters.

Hey, okay, so I know you don't tune into this show to hear about cookbook publisher business strategy, but bear with me.

This will be quick.

The reason why most of the cookbooks from your favorite authors come out in October and November

is because something like half of all the cookbooks sold in the year are sold just before the holidays.

So publishers load up in the fall to ride that wave and hopefully everyone ends the year happy and with jobs the

next year. But as the competition got thicker, publishers started putting out more books

in the spring. And these books are usually the ones, you know, that may have had a harder time

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