I will design and format your professional cookbook or recipe book

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Joel O.

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About this gig

Cookbooks are the hardest interiors to lay out well. Ingredient columns that mustn't break across pages, method steps legible in a steamy kitchen, photos colour-checked for print, a recipe grid that holds together for 200 pages. Generic formatters come unstuck here, but it's meat and drink for me.


How it works:

  1. We discuss trim size, style, fonts and photo treatment
  2. You get a sample recipe spread within 3 days we refine until the design is right
  3. I build your custom recipe template then lay out every recipe consistently
  4. Full draft for review, revisions, then final files


You receive: a print-ready PDF with correct bleed and gutter 100% approved for KDP with Custom recipe page layouts and professional image placement.


Already have food photography? Send your images and I will incorporate them into the design.

Don't have images for every recipe? I can also create custom photorealistic food visuals as an extra.


Please note: This Gig is for the design and formatting of recipes you provide. If you need the recipes researched and written for you, please see my Complete Cookbook Creation Gig.


For cookbooks with more than 50 recipes or unusually complex layouts, please message me

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Get to know Joel O.

Joel O.

Expert Book Designer and Publisher

  • FromUnited Kingdom
  • Member sinceSep 2024
  • Avg. response time1 hour
  • Last deliveryabout 51 minutes
  • Languages

    English
I've written and formatted hundreds of books. Working in Adobe InDesign, I've produced published titles across cookbooks, children's and teen non-fiction, novels and workbooks. So I know what a real interior needs: clean master pages, anchored images that stay where you put them, recipe grids that don't break across a spread, and files that pass KDP and IngramSpark validation the first time.