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April Backers Update: Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis
Hello Backers!
Lucas here again, with your monthly update.
It's been a busy month for us here as we prepare Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis. We've brought on our two celebrity chefs - Melissa Parks and Laurie Wolf, as well as Laurie's partner and amazing photographer Bruce Wolf. They're hard at work preparing, shooting and documenting recipes for the book, and I'm busy writing articles and content.
We're also working with our design team to come up with an amazing and modern look for the book. Cover design, typography, layout... there's a lot to consider!
In the meantime, we need to keep you, our backers, entertained and occupied! So we hope you are keeping an eye our Backers Video page at http://www.thestonerscookbook.com/backer_videos.php as we are constantly adding new videos.
Next month I hope to steal one of the recipes from the book from under the chef's noses so I can give you a taste (haha) of what we're working on... stay tuned!
As always if you need to get in touch, my email is lucas@thestonerscookbook.com
March Backers Update: Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis
Hello Backers!
My name is Lucas Young and I co-founded The Stoner’s Cookbook way back in 2006 with my business partner Daniel Crothers.
I’ve taken on the role of bringing you Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis and I have some exciting updates for you this month.
Firstly let me say how much we appreciate your support - it’s your backing that has made this book possible. It’s one of the first of its kind – a crowd-funded cannabis cookbook! It will not only contain 100 creative recipes and exquisite full colour photography, it will have one of the most comprehensive guides to dosing available in a cookbook. Our chefs have been working to determine a way to measure dosing that’s easy for even a novice cook to understand. It’s important to know how strong the effects of any cannabis-based meal are!
Speaking of chefs, let me introduce you to the two chefs who will be collaborating to bring you this revolutionary cookbook.
Melissa Parks
Melissa is a classically trained chef who has been cooking and baking professionally since 2000. She attended Le Cordon Bleu and Johnson and Wales and obtained degrees in culinary arts, baking and pastry, and culinary nutrition. She has worked in fine dining restaurants in Minneapolis’s theatre district, co-managed bakeries, developed products for General Mills in their New Meals/Research and development department, was a private chef for CEOs of companies in Boulder, a private chef for Grant Family Farms, created personalized wedding cakes and wedding cake displays, and now finds herself embarking on our journey of creating infused artisan edibles.
Laurie Wolf
A recent contributor to The Denver Post's new marijuana section
and Cannabis Now, Laurie attended the Culinary Institute of America and worked
as a chef, caterer, and food stylist in New York before moving to Portland in
2008, where she continues to work as a recipe-developer and medible specialist.
Her company Laurie & MaryJane is one of the premier medible
companies in Oregon.
Book Production News
Firstly, let me apologize for the confusion some of you experienced after you backed Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis. Crowd-funding for books is probably new to many of you, and many of you thought the book would be delivered as soon as the funding was complete.
The funding allowed us to commission our team and begin the development process, with the target of delivering the cookbook to you towards the end of this year. Book production and publishing is a complex process involving many players – photographers, designers, layout artists, editors, authors, printers and so on.
Right now we are deep in the middle of preparing content and recipes and organizing food photography – developing a cookbook is a much more involved process than publishing an ordinary book – all of our recipes have to be prepared by our chefs, tested, documented and made robust enough that cooks of any level can handle the preparation. Then the recipes have to be styled, lit and photographed.
While all of this is happening I will be keeping you updated on
progress and news, and you can always email me with specific questions.
My email address is:
Backer Videos
To reward you for your patience - and to give you something “herbal” to do with your kitchens in the meantime - I’m delighted to be able to present you with the first of the videos promised as part of your backer’s package. There are in fact, not one, but THREE videos from one of our cookbook chefs, Melissa Parks.
As backers, you’ll be seeing these videos before anyone else on your own video page on The Stoner’s Cookbook website.
These are introductory videos on how to prepare cannabis for cooking and culminate in our first video recipe – we wanted to give you the first three all at once so you didn’t have to wait around to get to the good stuff – making your first cannabis edible!
Going forward, we’ll be aiming to release at least one video each week, and you’ll see them before the rest of the world.
Your first three videos are:
Your backer videos are available on this page:
http://www.thestonerscookbook.com/backer_videos.php
They should play on any computer or mobile device that’s up-to-date, but let me know if you encounter issues.
That’s all from me for this month – I’ll be back in April with more book news.
Kind Regards
Lucas Young
CTO
The Stoner’s Cookbook
We couldn't have done it without you...
I'm thrilled to announce that with your help we were able to crowdfund our groundbreaking cookbook, HERB: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis. Not only did we hit our goal, we blew it out of the water! HERB was 164% funded by 841 backers worldwide! We can't wait to show you what we've been working on...
So what's next?
Inkshares, the revolutionary crowdfunding platform, will be working with us to create this incredible cookbook. Creating a cookbook is a lot of work, but we're well on our way. They have given us the following estimated timeline for the production and distribution of HERB:
* Please note that these dates are subject to change based on several factors. We’re hoping the book will be ready by the end of summer, 2015.
We have some exciting cooking videos that we will be releasing to you over the next couple months. Stay tuned for those... If you ever want to get in touch please don't hesitate to email me personally at matt@thestonerscookbook.com.
Thanks again for all your support! You're awesome!
Matt Gray
All,
May Backers Update: Herb: Mastering the Art of Cooking with Cannabis
Hello Backers!
April was a busy month for us - not only were our chefs flat out preparing an amazing range of dishes and producing some beautiful photography, they were also busy making appearances and providing their services as part of 4/20... a date that has become synonymous with cannabis.
Girl Friday Productions joined the team as our editors, and they're pushing us all to meet not only their internal deadlines, but the deadlines of our printers and distributors.
Some of the recipes flying past my desk over the last month have been mouth-watering! Seared Sirloin with Aged Balsamic Vinegar and Medicated Bread Pudding... Garlic Shrimp... Roasted Cod on Arugula Puree...
Check out this shot I stole from our photographer while he wasn't looking... Wild mushroom Pappardelle with Peas & Goat Cheese!
We're so grateful for your support and patience - crafting a book, especially a cookbook, is a slow and painstaking process.
I hope you've had a chance to check out our exclusive Backers Video page at http://www.thestonerscookbook.com/backer_videos.php
We have a range of videos for you from introductory cannabis cooking guides, to interviews with our CEO, and even a new video series featuring medicine hunter Chris Kilham as he explores the mysterious world of Ayahuasca in Amazonian Peru! Each week I'll post another video for you.
We're planning to have our CEO Matt Gray answer questions from our fans and backers on video in the coming weeks - if you'd like to submit a cannabis or Herb Kitchen related question, drop me a line at video@thestonerscookbook.com
Our Facebook page is also a great place to drop by for cannabis news and humor - check out https://www.facebook.com/TheStonersCookbook
Have a wonderful month! I'll be back in June with more updates!
Lucas Young