Kick­starter for the cook­book has kicked off!

It’s time!

After months and years of work­ing towards our goal, the cook­book, our baby, is ready to become a reality.

The Kick­starter cam­paign has begun.  Click here!

For those of you who may be new to Kick­starter (I was), it’s a “sup­port the project” sys­tem where the gen­er­al pub­lic gets excit­ed about an idea and pledges sup­port.   You can choose your lev­el of sup­port (one book, 100 books) and then when the project is suc­cess­ful­ly fund­ed — we’ll give it 30 days — the book goes to print!

Avery and I are incred­i­bly excited.

avery me camera copy

A fab­u­lous index? Check.

index journey

Every­thing mea­sure prop­er­ly in both Amer­i­can and Euro­pean stan­dards?  Check.

measuring

All my efforts in writ­ing, and Avery’s in pho­tog­ra­phy, beau­ti­ful­ly trans­lat­ed into a per­fect for­mat?  Check.  Our cook­book was designed with love by Briony Hart­ley, graph­ic design­er to the stars (tru­ly, she’s designed books for the Queen!).

brionyedit

Beau­ti­ful por­traits tak­en by the best peo­ple pho­tog­ra­ph­er we know?  Vin­cent Kei­th, thank you, CHECK.

best me Vincent avery photo

Avery’s tak­en her last pho­to­graph: this per­fect laven­der blos­som, and a lit­tle vis­i­tor, to illus­trate Judy’s laven­der cook­ie recipe.

lavender

What does this all this prepa­ra­tion and excite­ment mean?  This means that you all have the chance to choose a lev­el at which you want to be involved in bring­ing “Tonight at 7.30: One Fam­i­ly’s Life at the Table” to life!

Click on this Kick­starter link and start read­ing, and watch­ing (there’s a real­ly sweet video which I think I’ve watched about 100 times already).  Then scroll down and see what you’d like: one cook­book for your­self as a lit­tle treat, or sev­er­al to give away as presents?

How about a signed copy?  (You’ll get a dar­ling “Tonight at 7.30” apron thrown in!)

How about splurg­ing with some friends and invit­ing your­selves over for din­ner, here in Lon­don, or at Red Gate Farm?  Or hey, I’ll come to you, in New York or even in Indi­anapo­lis. (Mom can’t wait to see you.)

We are are thrilled more than we can say to wel­come you to our project, so many lov­ing years in the making.

Tonight at 7.30: One Fam­i­ly’s Life at the Table.”

Bring on the fun!

4 Responses

  1. A Work in Progress says:

    Gor­geous video! Your voice is so pret­ty and musi­cal as well. I thought Avery might have more of an Eng­lish accent, but it’s that per­fect com­bi­na­tion of the two. Look­ing for­ward to get­ting my books.

  2. Why thank you! I adore Avery’s accent. :) Can’t wait for you to have the books in your hands.

  3. Hilary K says:

    As a UK expat cur­rent­ly liv­ing in Sin­ga­pore but for 30 years before that in Chiswick, I enjoy read­ing your blog — thank you! We also have a barn that we return to each year with fam­i­ly but ours is in the York­shire Dales. Good luck with the book, I am look­ing for­ward to my copy!

  4. Love­ly, Hilary, thank you! We expats real­ly under­stand each oth­er. I’d love to see your York­shire barn. I hope you enjoy the cookbook!

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