Thank you for taking an interest in helping us with this massive project and taking the time to visit this page. There is a lot to cover so we won’t waste you time — let’s get right into it.

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The Cookbook a Month Club

We are starting up an Online Cookbook club.  Here’s how it will work:

We want to have 3 different kinds of cookbooks and recipes to offer:

• #1 We have acquired the rights to dozens of the best, highest-quality e-cookbooks.  We have chosen the very best to share with you (we actually reject about 2 of every 3 we review.)
• #2 In addition, we are contacting chefs, cookbook authors and food bloggers and asking them to share their best recipes with us.  We’re getting cutting edge new recipes that will blow your socks clean off and into the hamper.
• #3 We want your recipes.  We want traditional, regional, real dishes from real people.  Dishes that showcase each region of the country and world.  Much more on this below.

For the Cookbook a Month Club we are going to offer two options:

• Free Membership – One Free cookbook every month.  Free to join.
• Premium Membership – 5 or More Cookbooks every month.  This one will cost at least $30 to join (one time — not per month.)

You, however, because you are a loyal reader of one or more of our email newsletters can have the Premium Membership for FREE!

All you have to do to get you Free 5 or More Cookbooks every month is to send us a recipe.

That’s it.

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Send Us Your Recipes

We want your best recipes.

What kind of recipes do we want?

As we told you in the email, we have readers in all 50 states and over 70 countries world-wide.  We want to put together a cookbook for every state (50 new cookbooks!) and as many as we can do for different countries or region of the world.  We believe — no, we KNOW — these EXCLUSIVE cookbooks will be a valuable resource to home cooks everywhere.

And as a Premium Member, You will get EVERY ONE of them!

We are looking for your best old fashioned recipes that say something about your family, your traditions, your region of the country or world.

Recipes that use local ingredients and call to mind local traditions.  Dishes your Mother and Grandmother (or Father and Grandfather) cooked on Sundays and Special Occasions.  Dishes the whole family still loves.

It’s probably easier to give examples that try to explain further:

If you live in the Southern US, we want your recipes for fried chicken, grits, biscuits and Coca-Cola cake.  If you live in Philly, send us your beef steak recipe.  Texas, Brisket and/or BBQ.  Memphis, ribs.  Alaska, salmon, maybe.  Maine, something with lobsters.  Great Britain, maybe Toad-in-Hole or Spotted Dick (Alton has always wondered just what in the world those are. 😉 )  France or Spain, go wild.  We are SO looking forward to your recipes.  Asia and Africa (yes, SCRR has readers all over Asia and Africa), please send something we poor Southern Boys can’t even begin to imagine.

You get the picture.

Having said that, if you live in New Orleans and your Mom makes the best Breaded Walleye or you live in Ohio and you make a killer Crawfish Etouffee, by all means SEND THE RECIPE!  But…well, you know.

Furthermore — we want everything.  Not just main courses.  Please send us your best salads, sides, desserts (!), snacks, drinks, etc.  If you love it, we want it.

We’ll tell you below what we need you to do to send your recipes.  But first, a very quick couple of things we don’t want:

• We do not want recipes from published cookbooks.  Maybe your family’s favorite fried chicken recipe comes from the Joy of Cooking.  We love that book and that recipe — but we can’t use it.  We’re sure a few published recipes will sneak in due to them being in the family so long that their original source has been forgotten.  But please, do not copy straight out of a published cookbook.  Especially if it is new.  We have to reject all previously published recipes.
• We do not want secret copycat restaurant recipes.  We note this because the majority of you are subscribers to our SCRR newsletters.  Thank you.  We love you and we love restaurant recipes. But those are not what we are looking for with this project.

How Do I Send In My Favorite Recipe?

We’re going to make this super-simple for you — but first we need to explain what we want from you:

• #1 Your Recipes.  We’ve explained what kind of recipes we are looking for up above so we won’t repeat that.  Try to be as detailed as possible.  We need measurements and times, especially.  Remember, while this dish may be second nature to you, the rest of us will be cooking this recipe — even these ingredients — for the first time. Don’t worry about formatting.  We will take care of that.  Just give us the COMPLETE ingredients and instructions.
• #2 Your State or County — or the State, Region or Country where the recipe originated.  We don’t want to publish your home  address, heaven forbid. We just need a place to put the recipe.  “Ohio”, “Coastal Ireland”, “This dish is served by street vendors all over Thailand” or “This is a traditional Ecuadorian recipe” are all perfectly good examples.
• #3 We would like to give you credit for the recipe by including Your Name.  This is optional.  If you want us to use it, please include it in the Email Body (not just your email address.)  Something like “Recipe Submitted by James DeVasher” will be fine or “You can use my name. It is Alton Rush.”
• #4 We would love The Story Behind Your Recipe.  This, too, is totally optional — and don’t freak.  We don’t want you to channel your inter-Hemingway or anything like that.  Just give us some interesting background or story. It can be as simple as “My Grandmother used to make this every Sunday”  or as long and elaborate as you like. Here is an example of an elaborate story from our of our favorite food blogs to give you an idea:

http://www.fromaway.com/cooking/super-cheesy-potatoes

Yes, that example is loooooooong.  But Kasey does this everyday.  Just write as much or as little as you wish to tell your story.

Two more quick things:

• Send as many recipes as you like.  Please.  The more the merrier.  The only thing we ask is that you send each recipe in a SEPARATE EMAIL — just to make sure we don’t get confused. (You’ll only get one Premium Subscription, of course. But 1 is all you need, right?)
• Please DO NOT send photos of your dish, yourself or anything else.  The procedures for gaining copyright permission (even if you tell us it is okay to use them) is just to tricky and time consuming.  Actually, you can send a photo if you like.  We would love to see your dish.  But we WILL NOT be able to use it in anyway.

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Okay, ready?

Send your recipes, names and stories to:

cookbookamonthclub@gmail.com

We look forward to getting and trying all of your recipes.  Mark’s Mom is going to help us and we are all so stoked.

Thank you.

James, Mark and Alton

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Disclaimers and Legal Stuff

Please read this part.

If you send in a recipe in the manner we described above, you will get a Free Subscription to the Premium Membership of Cookbook a Month Club — whether we use your recipe or not.

• We reserve the right to use or not any recipe we receive.
• We reserve the right to make changes to any recipe or combine recipes.
• We reserve the right to make changes to your story (we won’t change the meaning but we might have to correct typos or remove a sentence or two for space.)

If we get the amount of recipes we hope it will take us a long time to work our way through the recipes.  Please don’t expect a reply immediately.

Also, this is a long term project and we don’t expect the first cookbooks to start coming out until at least the Summer.  If you send a recipe you will be included and we will contact you with your instructions to sign up. It will be closer to the opening of the project than to the time you submit your recipe.

We will, at some point, stop this free membership promotion.  We will try to warn you but reserve the right to stop it anytime without notice.  So go ahead and send in your recipes early.

Please do not use cookbookamonthclub@gmail.com for questions. If you have questions or comments, please contact us the usual ways — Leave a comment below or email us by our contact form – https://secretcopycatrestaurantrecipes.com/contact-us/ 

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Read this part if you like.  This is not intended to scare you or discourage you — you know that we ARE going to treat you right.  We are required to include this for legal reasons.

Copyrights

Recipes (lists of ingredients and lists of directions) are NOT copyrightable under the laws of the United States where we are located.  See http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html By sending us your recipe, you are giving us permission to use it in any way we see fit.  We can and probably will use it in any manner we like, including but not limited to websites, blogs, cookbooks (electronic and physical) and promotion.

Your Name is are NOT copyrightable under the laws of the United States where we are located.  By sending us your name, you are giving us permission to use it in any way we see fit.  We can and probably will use it in any manner we like, including but not limited to websites, blogs, cookbooks (electronic and physical) and promotion.  If you do not want us using it, please don’t send it.

Your Story IS Copyrightable.  However, unless you have SPECIFICALLY taken the time and money to copyright it, it is NOT copyrighted.  Merely writing something does not give you protection under the copyright laws of the United States where we are located.  By sending us your non-copyrighted story, you are giving us permission to use it in any way we see fit. We can and probably will use it in any manner we like, including but not limited to websites, blogs, cookbooks (electronic and physical) and promotion.

If you story IS copyrighted, please DO NOT send it to us.  The procedures for gaining copyright permission (even if you tell us it is okay to use) is just to tricky and time consuming.

Please DO NOT send us a recipe, description or story from a book, magazine, website or any other published material, electronic or physical.  We will discard them.  We will check EVERYTHING we receive though Copyscape plagiarism checker and Google.

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