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While on staff at Reader's Digest and Weight
Watchers Publishing Group I specialized in editing and writing cookbooks.
At Viking Studio Books my list was more varied. Here's an abbreviated list
of some of the books I acquired and edited: Reader’s Digest Illustrated Reference Books
10,001 Food Facts, Chefs’
Secrets, & Household Hints.
Cooking Smart for a Healthy Heart: Delicious Recipes for Life.
Weight Watchers Publishing Group
Simply the Best Italian: More than 250 Recipes from the Kitchens of Italy (Hungry
Minds/IDG Books).
Dieting with the Duchess with Sarah, The Duchess of York (Simon &
Schuster).
- Two weeks on Publishers Weekly Best-seller List.
New Complete Cookbook
(Hungry Minds/IDG Books).
- Nearly 1 million copies in print.
Dining with the Duchess: Making Every Day Meals a Special
Occasion with Sarah, The Duchess of York (Simon & Schuster).
- One week on Publishers Weekly Best-seller List.
- Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Clubs Selection.
- Health Book Club Featured Alternate.
Stir-Fry to Szechuan: 100 Classic Chinese Recipes (Hungry
Minds/IDG
Books).
- Finalist, 1998 IACP Cookbook Award, Health and Special Diet Category.
- BOMC/The Good Cook Selection.
Viking Studio Books
The Bountiful Kitchen by Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrissey.
- Finalist, 1998 IACP Cookbook Award, Food Reference and Technical Category.
- BOMC/The Good Cook Selection.
Robin Leach’s Healthy Lifestyles Cookbook: Menus and Recipes
from the Rich, Famous, and Fascinating by Robin Leach and Mardee Haidin
Regan.
- First printing of 75,000 copies.
- Literary Guild Main Selection.
Home Made in the Kitchen: Rediscovering and Reinterpreting the
Victorian Household Arts by Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrissey.
- Second printing before publication.
- BOMC/The Good Cook Selection.
- Better Homes and Gardens Book Club Selection.
An Awakening Spirit: Meditations by Women for Women by
Claudia Sargent and Peg Streep.
- One week on The Chicago Tribune Best-seller List.
- Winner, 1994 New York Book Show Award, General Trade: Illustrated
Category.
- BOMC Selection.
- More than 60,000 copies in print.
Spiritual Illuminations: Meditations for Inner Growth by
Claudia Sargent and Peg Streep (1992).
- Winner, 1993 New York Book Show Award, Special Trade Category.
- BOMC Selection.
- More than 75,000 copies in print.
The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Cookbook: Recipes and
Entertaining Secrets from the Most Fascinating People in the World by Robin
Leach (1992).
- 150,000 copies in print.
- Literary Guild Main Selection.
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