{"id":1657,"date":"2020-08-25T11:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2020-06-22T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:56:31","slug":"why-blank-pages-are-needed-in-a-family-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/2020\/08\/why-blank-pages-are-needed-in-a-family-cookbook.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Blank Pages are Needed in a Family Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of the questions we get a lot as Cookbook Publishers is “how do I remove the blank pages in my cookbook?”<\/p>\n

It seems that when people preview their family cookbook on FamilyCookbookProject.com<\/a>, they see the cover, then a blank page, then the title page, then another blank page, and so on. They want those blank pages eliminated to lower the cost of printing.<\/p>\n

In publishing, especially cookbook publishing, a cookbook needs to be laid out in a specific way in order for the most important pages to be on the right side when the book is opened. Think about it, Whenever you open a book, the title page is the first thing you see and it is always on the right page of a two page spread. Same goes for the Introduction, Table of Contents and the section dividers.<\/p>\n

On FamilyCookbookProject.com<\/a>, if you create a preview cookbook PDF, you want to open it in your Adobe Reader program and select the option to view “Facing Pages” or “Double-up” (look under the View menu), you’ll see how the pages back up to each other.<\/p>\n

Now with that said, there is no reason why those pages have to be blank. The inside front cover can have a family photo photo or bio of the cookbook editor. The same goes for other blank pages as well. If your introduction is one page and after it is a blank page, consider writing more, adding a photo or even making the text larger to fill up that extra space.<\/p>\n

One benefit form using FamilyCookbookProject.com<\/a> is that we provide a complete set of handy kitchen information that can be used on the back of the recipe category dividers with the touch of a button.<\/p>\n

Bill Rice<\/i> is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project<\/a>, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook<\/a> and Pinterest<\/a>!<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the questions we get a lot as Cookbook Publishers is “how do I remove the blank pages in my cookbook?” It seems that when people preview their family cookbook on FamilyCookbookProject.com, they see the cover, then a blank page, then the title page, then another blank page, and so on. They want those …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookbook-design","category-editor-tips","category-familycookbookproject-com","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familycookbookproject.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}