Episode 424: Simple Holiday Boards for Every Celebration with Maegan Brown, The Baker Mama

Welcome back to another episode of the Cookbook Love Podcast.

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Today I'm excited to have Maegan Brown, The Baker Mama, on the show. Maegan has run TheBakerMama.com for 14 years, and she's the author of four cookbooks, all with the same publisher. Her newest, Celebration Boards: 50 Creative Boards to Turn Any Occasion into a Celebration, came out September 15th. Today we discuss:

1. Maegan's story. How a love for boards began in 2009 in a 500-square-foot Boston apartment, with wooden boards her dad made by hand, and grew into a business and four cookbooks.

2. Her new book, Celebration Boards. Her six-step BOARDS Method, her favorite boards for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah, and how to turn a board into a gift that means more than a candle or a bottle of wine.

3. What it takes to write a cookbook. How her publisher found her on Instagram, how she narrows hundreds of ideas to 50, how her team grew book by book, and the breakfast-table tradition that shows her four kids what their mom's work means.

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