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Interview
with cookbook author, Norene Gilletz
by
Dana McCauley
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
www.homemakers.com/danasblog/
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Cookbook
Author Norene Gilletz
with her latest cookbook, Norene's Heathy Kitchen
Photograph courtesy Dana McCauley
I love when you meet someone new and they instantly become your friend.
When I met cookbook author Norene Gilletz several years ago we
immediately hit it off. I suspect this experience is a normal one for
Norene; she's truly one of the most approachable people I've ever met!
This quality and her well-developed cooking skills are the winning
combination that has helped her to become a Canadian cooking icon.
Norene had lunch a few weeks ago and I asked her a few questions about her
new book Norene's Healthy Kitchen.
DM: Your new book has more than 30 pages of tips plus many more
scattered throughout the book. Why did you include all of this information
in Norene's Healthy Kitchen?
NG: I get oodles of email and letters from people who have
questions about cooking so I decided to address the questions I get asked
most often in a place where even people who don't have my email address
can find the answers.
DM: This reminds me that you mention in many recipe leads that the
original idea for the recipe came from a friend or a reader.
NG: My book is about sharing as well as about eating. Including
ideas I get from other people adds character to all of my books and helps
my fellow cooks live on forever.
DM: With over 600 recipes and a price tag of only $34.95 you
realize that each of your recipes costs less than 6 cents? Are you trying
to put the rest of us food writers out of business?
NG: (laughing) Certainly not! I kept developing more great recipes
and couldn't choose what to exclude. I handed in the manuscript expecting
my editor to cut down the book but she couldn't choose between the recipes
either.
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