Published via the Blurb publishing platform, book will debut at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10 /PRNewswire/ – In a first-time collaboration, Blurb, the creative publishing and marketing platform, and National Public Radio’s Kitchen Sisters,
Nikki Silva and
Davia Nelson, today announced the launch of a new book, Hidden Kitchens Texas — Stories, Recipes and More from the Lone Star State. Inspired by their popular HIDDEN KITCHENS series on NPR’s Morning Edition, the book is a colorful, action-packed road trip exploring Texas through food — told by people who find it, grow it, cook it, eat it, sell it, share it, and celebrate with it.
Hidden Kitchens Texas is available for purchase now, in the Blurb Bookstore at www.blurb.com. Blurb and The Kitchen Sisters will feature the book at a series of launch events in Austin, Texas at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive during the week of March 16 – 22. The official launch party will take place on Tuesday, March 17, at Ranch 616, a south Texan ice house founded by chef and owner
Kevin Williamson.
“We’re thrilled to launch Hidden Kitchens Texas in Austin, where the project was born,” said
Davia Nelson. “We wrote this book by drawing from hundreds of family stories, hot tips and local lore we’ve we gathered for our radio series. These short histories, recipes, and anecdotes tell the story of Texas through the relationship between food and communities. The Blurb platform gave us the control to act as producers and editors as well as authors, which was an intriguing production model for a book like this.”
Hidden Kitchens Texas was written by The Kitchen Sisters,
Davia Nelson and
Nikki Silva, who published the book using Blurb’s creative publishing and marketing platform. Using Blurb BookSmart(R), the company’s free, easy-to-use book design software, The Kitchen Sisters had complete creative control over the layout and design of their book. By selling their book in the Blurb Bookstore, The Kitchen Sisters were able to set the price of their book, keeping the entire mark-up rather than distributing a large percentage of the profits among middlemen.
Hidden Kitchens Texas is packed with stories of food, farm and family — Kinky Friedman’s kitchen wisdom; singer
Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s stories of Stubb and his late-night Lubbock barbecue kitchen;
Willie Nelson’s Fried Eggs,
Robin Wright Penn’s Sweet Potato Crunch,
Joe Ely’s black eyed peas;
Sharon Ely’s Holy Posole; Astronaut Bill McArthur’s Jalapeno Space Kolache; the Birth of the Frito, the Birth of the 7-Eleven, the Birth of the Frozen Margarita, and more.
To create and publish a Blurb book, start by downloading Blurb BookSmart(TM) software from the www.blurb.com. Blurb’s BookSmart software is free, runs on a Mac or PC, and offers a wide variety of book layouts created by professional book designers. Blurb delivers the permanence and impact of commercial-quality books, with the speed and flexibility of the Internet. Using Blurb, customers enjoy complete creative control, no minimum orders, edit on-the-fly capabilities, mass customization, and global distribution.
About The Kitchen Sisters
The Kitchen Sisters,
Davia Nelson and
Nikki Silva, are award winning documentary radio producers whose stories are heard on NPR, BBC and public broadcast networks worldwide. They are the creators of the duPont Columbia Award-winning HIDDEN KITCHENS series on NPR’s Morning Edition, and HIDDEN KITCHENS TEXAS, an hour-long radio special narrated by
Willie Nelson.
The Kitchen Sisters are also the creators of the Peabody Award winning LOST AND FOUND SOUND series on NPR and the post 9-11 SONIC MEMORIAL PROJECT, produced with
Jay Allison. They are the authors of HIDDEN KITCHENS: STORIES, RECIPES AND MORE published by Rodale. Currently, they are producing an NPR and online series about girls around the world.
About Blurb
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the power of books: making, reading, sharing, and selling them. Blurb is flexible and smart enough to help anyone make a book – photographers, creative professionals, bloggers, artists, writers, travelers, everyone. Blurb’s bookstore and online marketing tools let people share, market, and sell their books, and keep 100% of the markup. Blurb’s community features empower socially connected groups of consumers and professionals to create Blurb books together.
Blurb won a 2008 Webby Award for Best Services website, has been recognized as an OnMedia 100 winner by AlwaysOn in 2008, was named a Momentum 15 company by Dealmaker Media in 2007, and was the 2007 Pixel Awards Geek Winner. Blurb was founded by
Eileen Gittins in 2005 and is funded by Canaan Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Blurb BookSmart(TM) software is free for Mac or PC at www.blurb.com.
Contact: Audrey Shedivy
Henry Grey PR, for Blurb
310-770-0610
audrey@henrygreypr.com
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