DiscoverEverything Cookbooks134: Cookbooks as a Career with Maria Zizka
134: Cookbooks as a Career with Maria Zizka

134: Cookbooks as a Career with Maria Zizka

Update: 2025-06-25
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Kate and Kristin speak with cookbook author Maria Zizka about writing her solo projects as well as the more than forty collaborations she's worked on so far in her career. They chat about the challenges inherent in collaborations, how Maria got her start in the food world and the role letter writing played in getting her incredible internship—recipe testing alongside Suzanne Goin. Maria shares how she balances collaborations and solo projects, the lessons, systems and habits she's established because of her range of experiences, and the projects she will and won't take on. She talks about the process of switching agents, why she celebrates even the little milestones and the advice she has for aspiring authors.

Hosts: Kate Leahy + Molly Stevens + Kristin Donnelly + Andrea Nguyen

Editor: Abby Cerquitella

 

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Maria Zizka

University of Gastronomic Sciences

Episode 32: Co-Authoring Cookbooks with JJ Goode


 

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134: Cookbooks as a Career with Maria Zizka

134: Cookbooks as a Career with Maria Zizka

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