instead. It might be more fun and exciting. If you want to write and publish to say that you have, you still need a platform, or you can go print-on-demand and invest very little and have keepsakes for friends and family. That's OK, too. It all depends upon your goals. I am an educator, as you are, and want to teach people how to get into the kitchen. Not everyone wants the same thing. And as they say, "That's what makes horse racing, or cookbook writing (and publishing)." When you self-publish a book which is becoming much more popular, you don't get an advance but you earn whatever you earn from the book. This means that you need to make your book successful at all costs. My latest book The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 Minutes is something new for many people so I figure that initially it will take a lot of work to get it out into the world but it will just continue to grow. My first book, The Veggie Queen: Vegetables Get the Royal Treatment would not be called a commercial success by a standard publisher but I am happy with the sales, and continued sales, and started turning a profit within a month or so. I took all the risk and I reap all the rewards. To me, a good cookbook provides ideas, stories and recipes that work. If a book doesn't have at least