Everything Cookbooks
Everything Cookbooks
Andrea Nguyen, Molly Stevens, Kate Leahy, Kristin Donnelly
144: The Author-Agent Relationship with Peter J. Kim and David Black
44 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2025 at 10:00 am.
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Kate and Molly speak with both an author and an agent about their collaboration process. We talk to Peter J. Kim about his debut cookbook, The Instant Ramen Kitchen, and to David Black about working as a literary agent and why this project caught his attention. David shares his thoughts about cookbook proposal revisions, speciality stores and what agents and publishers look for in a book while Peter shares why this particular food was so important to him, why he settled on 'recipe templates to show off ramen's potential, how his background in music and museum work influenced the end result and what he is working on next.