Michael P. Burwen

There are two consistent themes in my books: Frugality and Gourmet. I could also add that almost all of the recipes are easy and fast. I altered those recipes that were originally challenging or expensive so that they could be made by an average American cook and used ingredients that were easy to find and inexpensive. Are there other cookbooks out there that do something similar? I suppose so, but I've yet to run into one that does it as well as mine.

I've been a foodie for decades. I used to travel a lot both inside the US and internationally. Whenever I had a meal I really liked, I would try to get the recipe(s). Usually I was successful and over 40+ years I collected nearly 1000 recipes. Since I am retired with nothing better to do, I decided to publish some of my collection. My two books include nearly 400 recipes from my collection together with some old family favorites and a very few of my own invention.

Creating the books was not as difficult as you might imagine because all of my recipes were already captured digitally using recipe management software, so all I had to do was import those recipes into a Word document suitable for publishing.