For so many of you who listen to this podcast, recipes are among your family’s greatest treasures. You cherish these recipes because they connect you to your ancestors and the sacrifices they made, to your homeland and its beauty that cannot quite be matched, and your family’s resilience through change, struggle, often even tragedy.

Sri Bodanapu loves her grandmother’s recipes for all this - and for the fact, of course, that they are delicious; the best food she’s ever eaten. When her uncle challenged her to transform the hundred page Word document that sat on his computer and her family’s inboxes into a real, bona fide, honest to goodness, hardback cookbook, she began a journey to creating a one-of-a-kind business that checks all the boxes for our needs.

Sri’s company, Heirloom Project, offers two paths to creating cookbooks that are professional, elevated, beautifully-designed, and made of the highest quality materials - all while remaining amazingly affordable. As she says, belongs on a shelf (or on your coffee table) besides the greatest cookbook authors out there.

There is no minimum OR maximum on the number of contributors that can collaborate on each book and the copies you can print. So you can use Heirloom to crowdsource a cookbook from your extended family, your church, or civic group. If you have a marketing channel, you can create a cookbook to sell.

In this episode, Sri shares with us all the tips and tricks to make her grandmother’s Lamb Biryani and the story of becoming the woman who was both motivated and equipped to begin this remarkable business. One note - this is a sponsored episode, but only because I believe completely in Sri’s mission, the quality of her books, and that this service is exactly what many of us have been looking for. Congratulations to Sri for creating something we all need - and thank you, reader, so, so much for being here.

A world famous Biryani made from layers of seasoned rice, succulent marinated lamb, and caramelized onions.

Website: www.heirloomproject.co

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