That’s right, a book everyone on FMB can be in. (This is being sent out as a newsletter too so keep a copy for links and rules!)

Last year, the FMB community created a book called “The Human Behind The Avatar” (you can take a look here).  It was a great initiative and we have had hundreds of great comments.

This year we wanted to change things a bit.  As Christmas is coming, we thought it would be perfect to join up with Blurb again and this time create something every single person on Fuelmyblog can relate to…FOOD!

So we want to create a global cookbook, our latest research shows that we are represented in our community by just about every country on Earth.  This means we can, for the first time, create a truly unique and global cookbook created by us, the community

How are we going to do it?

Firstly, you must submit a traditional local recipe, for example pie and mash from London is ok, we can’t have Southern Fried Chicken from Delhi – the more local and unchanged, the more interesting the book will become.

So what do you need to do?

Apart from create a recipe and take a photo of it, nothing..We are doing the hard work of creating the book!  If you do get a minute to blog this, please do link to this blog post, we really appreciate any help promoting this book.

Who are Blurb?

Blurb is a web based company that allows anyone to create customized books (as in, a real, high quality, tangible book that you can hold). Users simply download their free software (for Mac or PC) and then start creating.  Do not underestimate how high the quality is, we were astonished when we created the avatar book, it is incredible.

Ok – the details:-

You need to send us the step by step recipe with measurements (don’t worry, they’ll be a measurement convertor in the final book – cups v tablespoons etc!).  And you’ll need to submit your own photo – if you can, size needs to be 300DPI and Max size 2363×3000 pixels if not send full size, we’ll try to adjust it.

Send the recipe & photo to this email address here.  And please put your name (for credit) and your blog URL for the readers of the book to find and thank you.

UPDATE – Please specify the country and if need be specific zone or region for the dish too.

Free Books!

Blurb are pretty excited (to say the least) about this book, as a bonus they will give the top ten recipes a free book..as judged by a World Class Chef (to be revealed later during the month of November). Not only that, if you take a look in the section below you will get a 10% discount off your first order or creation with Blurb – you need to use the link provided and codes relevant to your country.

Closing date

We need to have all book entries in by the last day of November, that is plenty of time to put something together, but please remember, if we get too many entries, we’ll have to operate on a first come first served basis for volume 1 !!

Can I see the recipes before the book is produced?

We’ll set up a flickr account and display all new photos weekly or daily on this blog (subscribe here).

Any other questions?

Drop us a mail using the contact form here.

PLUS Special Offer on Blurb Books

If you want to create a book, now is a great time, thanks to Blurbs commitment to Fuelmyblog, they are offering each blogger 10% discount of your first order (can be multiple books too).

Simply visit this page first.  You must go here first otherwise the codes below will not work.  Below are discount codes required, if outside these zones, chose a currency most relevant to you.

Are you in the:-

UK?
promo code: fuelmyblog08-uk

US
promo code: fuelmyblog08-us

EU
promo code: fuelmyblog08-eu

Good luck – and let us see your books once completed!

Offer valid between 2008-10-22 and 2008-12-05. Promotion only valid for books created by the customer.

*****Update:

The FMB Global Cookbook Flickr Group is now open here.