25 Trending Cookbook Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

A Cookbook Business

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1. Office 365

Collaborate for free with online versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in OneDrive. Share them with others and work together at the same time.

Where they're located: Riverside, California, USA
Website traffic: 1.52B/month

2. O'Reilly Media

Gain technology and business knowledge and hone your skills with learning resources created and curated by O'Reilly's experts: live online training, video, books, our platform has content from 200+ of the worldâs best publishers.

Where they're located: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Website traffic: 5.79M/month

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4. Betty Crocker

From our kitchens to yours, all the tips, advice and recipes you need to make life more delicious, from everyday dinners and desserts to special occasion feasts.

Website traffic: 7.27M/month

5. HarperCollins Publishers

Publishing great authors since 1817. Discover thousands of books and authors, plus get exclusives on new releases, bestsellers, and more, at hc.com.

Where they're located: Manhattan Community Board 1, New York, USA

6. America's Test Kitchen

Where they're located: Lancaster, California, United States
Website traffic: 2.44M/month

7. Chef: Enabling the Coded Enterprise through Infrastructure, Security and Application Automation

Automation for all of your technology. Overcome the complexity and rapidly ship your infrastructure and apps anywhere with automation.

Website traffic: 180K/month

8. Family Cookbook Project

Family cookbook software an important way to preserve our mealtime traditions for future generations of ancestry and genealogy. With the passing of our loved ones comes the loss of treasured food traditions. A bridal or wedding cookbook ensures that the recipes from one generation can be passed on to the next as a treasured family heirloom. Once the recipes are preserved online, they can be shared with other family members by email, individual printed recipes or your own professionally printed cookbook.

Website traffic: 120K/month

9. Make Your Own Cookbook

Make your own cookbook with three simple steps? Collect your recipes, add the style and photos you want, then click to order. Get more details here!

Where they're located: Denver, Colorado, United States

10. The Sioux Chef

11. Southern Living Store

Home of the South's Finest Goods

12. R Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Second edition of R Cookbook

13. Farmers Restaurant Group

Farmers Restaurant Group is a farmer owned restaurant group. It is our mission to create restaurants that source American family farmed products. Find out more today!

14. Cookbook

Cookbook is feature-rich recipe plugin for WordPress that is crafted with care, well-built, looks beautiful, and works the way that food bloggers do.

15. Home

16. Casserole Queens

One-dish wonders that solve dinnertime conundrums everywhere. Check out our cookbooks, recipes, magazine columns, how-to videos, and culinary/speaking services

17. The Lee Bros. – Matt Lee and Ted Lee

18. MICROBLAST SOFTWARE

Recipe software for those who love to cook, Cookbook Wizard recipe software. Simple as 1-2-3! recipe cookbook Looking for recipe software?

19. First Watch Cookbook

First Watch Cookbook

20. Good Look Cookbook

21. Recipe Software

22. The New Mediterranean Diet

The New Mediterranean Diet starts at the intersection between Mediterranean & High-Fat, Low-Carb, and uses science to evolve the cuisine further.

23. Nourishing Brands

Free resources to help you lose weight, heal your body, solve underlying health issues, and look and feel better than ever with a low carb, Keto diet.

How much they make: $7.2M/year
How much did it cost to start: $500
Current team size: 10
Website traffic: 130K/month

How We Started A $600K/Month Business Selling Keto Cookbooks And Mealplans

Nourishing Brands is a direct-to-consumer media company that generates more than $600k per month and sold over 300,000 cookbooks in 2020 through their popular health websites like KetoSummit.com by transitioning from digital events to cookbooks, evergreen courses, and paid media.

Revenue

Jeremy grew the business to $600K/month

Costs

It cost Jeremy $500 to start the business

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24. Heritage Cookbook

How much they make: $744K/year
Where they're located: Toronto, ON, Canada
How much did it cost to start: $10K
Current team size: 1

I Reinvented Our Family Legacy & Built A $744K/Year Cookbook Business

Heritage Cookbook, an online website for custom cookbooks started by a mother roughly 20 years ago, now makes $744k a year and is about to undergo a relaunch after drastic improvements in design, templates, products and technology, with an aim to become the top site for recipe preservation.

About

Virginie started Heritage Cookbook over 20 years ago

Revenue

Virginie grew the business to $62K/month

Costs

It cost Virginie $10000 to start the business

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