buckwheat baby with salted caramel syrup

Yesterday morning, at last, I handed in my cookbooks edits. And I know, youre thinking, but I thought you already handed your book in? and I had. Copyedits, which come back six weeks later, are like closing costs (or so I understand) when you buy a house. You think youre all done and just have some papers to sign/designs to approve and then wham! Comparatively, writing a book is a cinch. Writing is like splashing bright paint all over a giant white canvas look at all of those lovely words all lined up! Arent they darling? Copyedits are like measuring the space between each mark of paint and having to answer questions like, This splatter is .25 inches from that splatter, and you call it a blue splatter but this one is .5 inches away and labeled splatter, blue. Was this intentional? There were about three of these questions on each of 390 pages, and yet despite the fact that this work consumed the last 21 days of my life, I frequently wanted to HUG this poor copy editor who managed to wade through my blather and find small adjustments that made sentences sing. She is a saint.

Nevertheless, the three weeks I worked on this had some unintended side effects, the first is that I missed you all terribly. I dre! amed of nothing but buckwheat pancakes, buttermilk chicken and hearty winter slaws and could not wait to get back into the kitchen again. However, the saddest side effect of being swallowed up by work for a few weeks was oddly not that I now have something my husband calls my editing pants. (What? Theyre soft and comfortable and they have pockets! And now we must burn them.) but from my son, who is now enough of a two year-old that hes capable of telling it like it is: After three weeks of his mama having no time to cook, he now sees an I NY bag and hollers DINNERS HERE! Oh, the shame. It burns.

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