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Prime Publishing Raises Money for the Addus Hope Foundation February 26 , 2024

Northbrook, IL – From February 19-February 25, 2024, Prime Publishing raised money for the Addus Hope Foundation through its quarterly Clicks

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Prime Publishing Hosts 3rd Annual Cards for Veterans Charity Drive November 17 , 2023

Northbrook, IL – From October 1 through October 31 2023, Prime Publishing hosted their third annual Card Drive for Veterans through its websit

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Prime Publishing Raises Money for the American Red Cross of Hawaii September 15 , 2023

Northbrook, IL – From August 28-September 3, 2023, Prime Publishing raised money for the American Red Cross of Hawaii through its quarterly Cl

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Prime Publishing Hosts 6th Annual Networking Event at Creativation

Northbrook, IL — This year marked the 6th anniversary of the annual Prime Publishing LLC Networking Event at the AFCI’s annual crafting conference, Creativation. For the past six years, Prime Publishing has hosted a networking event in conjunction with sponsoring companies to connect bloggers, authors, and designers with networking opportunities. With more than 400 crafting manufacturers and businesses showcasing their 12,000+ products at Creativation, this networking event allowed bloggers, authors, and designers to connect and chat with sponsors in a friendly and relaxed setting.

Held in the Renaissance Hotel Phoenix’s ballroom from 5:30-7:30 PM, the event offered free drinks, heavy appetizers, and plenty of room and time to network. The event allowed top craft bloggers, authors, and designers to connect with our sponsors and form lasting, mutually beneficial relationships. The sponsors, in turn, were happy to chat and give out samples of their newest and best products.

“This is the MUST-ATTEND event at Creativation for both bloggers and companies,” says Marly Bird, knit and crochet designer of Marlybird.com. “Having the opportunity to discuss collaborations with professionals in the industry in such an energetic setting is priceless. The connections I’ve made at the blogger events have helped me both professionally and personally, and I know that I am not alone in that statement.” Marly is also the National Spokesperson for Red Heart Yarns.

Creativation 2019 is slated for January 17-21, 2019. The Prime Publishing team is already brainstorming ways to plan a bigger and better event next year.

This year’s sponsors included: DeflectoLeisure Arts, LoveKnitting, Marvy UchidaPlaid EnterprisesPremier YarnsPolyform, Prime Publishing, Red Heart Yarn, SakuraShareAShaleSpinrite Yarns, and Testors.

Addie Gundry, Cookbook Author, Featured at the Lake Forest Book Store

Northbrook, IL—Chef Addie Gundry appeared at the Lake Forest Book Store in Lake Forest, Illinois on February 4, 2018 to sign and present RecipeLion’s latest cookbooks, Retro Recipes from the ’50s and ’60s and Essential Slow Cooker Recipes. These are the fifth and sixth cookbooks released in RecipeLion’s 103 Cookbook series and published on January 9, 2018.

Gundry brought along some samples from the cookbooks for patrons to try, including Peanut Brittle and Strawberry Pretzel Salad from the retro cookbook and Spinach Artichoke Dip and Parmesan Ranch Oyster Crackers from the slow cooker cookbook. Gundry had last appeared at the Lake Forest Book Store to present recipes from the first two cookbooks, Family Favorite Casserole Recipes and No-Bake Desserts.

Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France and has worked for several notable chefs, including Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart with management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, Gundry won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network.

The next books in the series, Easy Chicken Recipes and Homemade Soup Recipes, will be released in March 2018. Future cookbook topics include healthy recipes, holiday recipes, and cake recipes.

RecipeLion Hosts First Facebook Live

Northbrook, IL — RecipeLion and test kitchen chef, Addie Gundry, are hosting their first Facebook Live event on Thursday, January 18 at 2pm CST. The event will celebrate the recent publication of the latest cookbooks in the 103 cookbook series, Retro Recipes from the ’50s and ’60s and Essential Slow Cooker Recipes, which came out on January 9, 2018.

The Facebook Live event will feature Gundry demonstrating how to make Strawberry Shortcake from the Retro Recipes book and answering questions live. Attendees who RSVP will have the chance to win a signed cookbook from Gundry.

Retro Recipes from the ’50s and ’60s and Essential Slow Cooker Recipes are the fifth and sixth cookbooks in the 103 cookbook series, published by St. Martin’s Press. Previous cookbooks include Family Favorite Casserole Recipes, No-Bake Desserts, Everyday Dinner Ideas, and Easy Cookie Recipes. All books are available in bookstores nationwide and online at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

Retro and Slow Cooker Books

Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France and has worked for several notable chefs, including Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart with management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, Gundry won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network.

 

Make Progress on Your New Year’s Resolutions by Starting a Healthy Habit

NORTHBROOK, IL — Survive the record-breaking winter weather and make progress on your New Year’s resolutions by starting a healthy habit sure to keep you warm.

According to the National Weather Service, the Chicago area saw its lowest-recorded high temperature on a New Year’s Day when the city’s low maximum temperature was set at 1 degree at O’Hare Airport. The previous record was five degrees above zero, which occurred in 1969. And the East Coast was hit with a “bomb cyclone,” bringing blinding snow and hurricane-like winds as strong as 80 mph. More than 13 million people were under blizzard warnings, from Virginia all the way to Maine. Additional warnings were in place all over the country, including wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from South Texas to Canada and from Montana through New England, and even snow was reported in Florida.

With more cold weather expected this winter, forecasters are urging residents to take precautions, including wearing layers and a hat and gloves. For those of you that might want to make your own hat or gloves, check out the free pattern library at AllFreeCrochet.com and AllFreeKnitting.com. Whether you’re looking to stay warm, learn a new skill, or improve your health, these free knit and crochet patterns can help! Recent studies have found people who participate in arts and crafts such as knitting and crochet “feel happier, calmer, and more energetic the next day.” The healing benefits range from simply calming you down and easing your stress to potentially relieving depression and reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists now believe that “crafts, such as crocheting, can help stimulate that dopamine release to allow us to feel happier and better about ourselves.”

The pattern libraries feature high resolution color photographs and step-by-step instructions; some include helpful video tutorials so you can follow along as you go.

AllFreeKnitting and AllFreeCrochet’s free pattern library includes:

Beginner’s Crochet Scarfvideo tutorial!

100 Free Crochet Patterns for Winter: Hats, Scarves, Blankets, and More

Winter Wonderland: 17 Winter Patterns to Crochet – free eBook!

Winter Cable Knit Beanievideo tutorial!

13 Knit Hat Patterns for the Winter

Knit Super Scarves: 12 Free Patterns

PLUS: Health Benefits of Knitting and Health Benefits of Crochet

RecipeLion Releases Retro and Slow Cooker Cookbooks

Northbrook, IL — RecipeLion and Addie Gundry, in partnership with St. Martin’s Griffin, released the latest cookbooks in the 103 cookbook series, Retro Recipes from the ’50s and ’60s: 103 Vintage Appetizers, Dinners, and Drinks Everyone Will Love and Essential Slow Cooker Recipes: 103 Fuss-Free Slow Cooker Meals Everyone Will Love, on January 9, 2018.

Retro and Slow Cooker Books

These are the fifth and sixth books in the series. Previous books in the series included Family Favorite Casserole Recipes, No-Bake Desserts, Everyday Dinner Ideas, and Easy Cookie Recipes. Upcoming cookbooks will feature topics such as chicken recipes, soup recipes, cakes, and more.

The author of the cookbook series is chef Addie Gundry. She received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France and has worked for several notable chefs, including Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart on management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, Gundry won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network.

Addie Gundry

Recipes featured in the cookbooks include Super Easy Crab Puffs and Homemade Candy Buttons (pictured below) from Retro Recipes from the ’50s and ’60s and Pizza Pull-Apart Bread and Slow Cooker Cinnamon Rolls from Essential Slow Cooker Recipes.

Homemade Candy Buttons

Retro Recipes from the ’50s and ’60s has been featured on Booklist saying that “baby boomers’ offspring no doubt will have relished many of the recipes Gundry has collected...Most recipes are a breeze to concoct from pantry staples, but even Gundry’s simplified beef Wellington has its place for celebratory dinners.”

AllFreeCrochet and AllFreeKnitting Host Third Annual Prayer Shawl Drive

Northbrook, IL — AllFreeCrochet and AllFreeKnitting proudly partnered with Rush University Medical Center’s Prayer Shawls at Rush initiative during the month of November for a charity drive.

“There’s more to the prayer shawl than meets the eye – besides just keeping you warm, prayer shawls provide comfort during challenging times. For a patient receiving a shawl, knowing that someone out there took the time to hand make the garment means so much. Knowing that there are others out there invested in what they’re going through, it makes a difference,” said editor Julia Wiatr.

“These gifts we receive are treasured and honored,” said Erin Bagwell, Clinical Social Worker at Rush Hospital. “We have countless stories of how meaningful they have been to our patients and families, including a couple of stories in which our patients loved them so much that their families chose to incorporate the shawl into their funeral service. Since we have been blessed to have a generous flow of shawls, we are able to expand these gifts to our hospice unit – it truly is a gift. We are so honored to continue to be chosen and are humbled every day by the beautiful creations of our talented knitters and crocheters. Thank you to all who have supported our program.”

The charity drive, in its third straight year, collected hundreds of completed knit and crochet shawls that will be shared with local hospice patients. For more information on Rush’s Prayer Shawls at Rush initiative, and to learn how you can make a difference, please check out Rush’s page here.

RecipeLion Releases Two New Cookbooks

Northbrook, IL—RecipeLion and Addie Gundry, in partnership with St. Martin’s Griffin, released the latest cookbooks in the 103 cookbook series, Everyday Dinner Ideas: 103 Easy Recipes for Chicken, Pasta, and Other Dishes Everyone Will Love and Easy Cookie Recipes: 103 Best Recipes for Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cake-Mix Creations, Bars, and Holiday Treats Everyone Will Love, on Tuesday, November 28, 2017.

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These are the third and fourth books in the 103 cookbook series. The previous two cookbooks, Family Favorite Casserole Recipes: 103 Comforting Breakfast Casseroles, Dinner Ideas, and Desserts Everyone Will Love and No-Bake Desserts: 103 Easy Recipes for No-Bake Cookies, Bars, and Treats, were released on July 4, 2017. Upcoming cookbooks include a retro theme, a slow cooker theme, a chicken theme, and a soup theme, among others.

Cookbook author Addie Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France. She has worked for chefs including Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart on management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, Gundry won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network.

Addie Gundry

Gundry appeared on QVC’s In the Kitchen with David on Wednesday, November 1st for the debut of Everyday Dinner Ideas and Easy Cookie Recipes. Recipes featured included Bacon Ranch Mac & Cheese and Taco Soup from Everyday Dinner Ideas and Blueberry Muffin Cookies and Toasted S’mores Cookies from Easy Cookie Recipes. The cookbooks have also been featured on The Seasoned Mom and Delightful Mom Cookies.

Toasted S'mores Cookies

Addie Gundry, Cookbook Author, Speaks at the Newcomers’ Club

Northbrook, IL—Addie Gundry, author of RecipeLion’s 103 Cookbook series, was the guest of honor at the November 16, 2017 meeting of the Newcomers’ Club of Lake Bluff and Lake Forest held at the Lake Forest Club. Her first two cookbooks, Family Favorite Casserole Recipes and No-Bake Desserts were available for sale at the event.

Gundry spoke about her experiences on Food Network Star, along with her impressions of Bobby and Giada, and talked about her career path, from deciding to attend culinary school in France to working for Thomas Keller and Martha Stewart to her job at gravitytank where she found innovative twists on food products. The Lake Forest Book Store, where Gundry had had a book signing back in August, provided a table of cookbooks to sell to attendees for Gundry to sign. Gundry talked about how the cookbooks combined her culinary expertise with the practical elements of cooking at home and the shortcuts that make tasty food even easier to make.

Gundry most recently appeared on QVC on In the Kitchen with David to promote the release of her upcoming cookbooks, Everyday Dinner Ideas: 103 Easy Recipes for Chicken, Pasta and Other Dishes Everyone Will Love and Easy Cookie Recipes: 103 Best Recipes for Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cake-Mix Creations, Bars, and Holiday Treats Everyone Will Love. These are the third and fourth books in the RecipeLion series and will be released in bookstores nationwide on Tuesday, November 28, 2017. They are available for pre-order now on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

RecipeLion’s Addie Gundry Debuts Latest Cookbooks on QVC

Northbrook, IL—RecipeLion’s own chef Addie Gundry debuted the latest cookbooks in the RecipeLion 103 Cookbook series on In the Kitchen with David, hosted by David Venable, on QVC on November 1st, 2017. The latest two cookbooks, Everyday Dinner Ideas: 103 Easy Recipes for Chicken, Pasta and Other Dishes Everyone Will Love and Easy Cookie Recipes: 103 Best Recipes for Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cake-Mix Creations, Bars, and Holiday Treats Everyone Will Love, are the third and fourth of the series and will be officially released on Tuesday, November 28th, 2017. The two books sold as a bundle deal for $24.95.

Addie Gundry QVC

In the Kitchen with David showcased several of the recipes featured in both cookbooks. Highlights included the Bacon Ranch Mac & Cheese and Taco Soup from Everyday Dinner Ideas and Blueberry Muffin Cookies and Toasted S’mores Cookies from Easy Cookie Recipes. Gundry chatted with David about the best occasions to make each dish, including how they could help enhance the holiday season.

Pre-order Everyday Dinner Ideas and Easy Cookie Recipes

Gundry was last on QVC in June 2017 to debut the first two books in the RecipeLion cookbook series, Family Favorite Casserole Recipes and No-Bake Desserts. She also appeared on Windy City Live, You & Me This Morning, and Good Day Chicago and on Oprah.com, the Chicago Tribune, and PopSugar.

Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France. She has worked for chefs including Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart on management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, Gundry won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network.

The cookbooks are still available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other bookstores near you.

RecipeLion’s Addie Gundry Debuts Latest Cookbooks on QVC

Northbrook, IL—RecipeLion’s own chef Addie Gundry debuted the latest cookbooks in the RecipeLion 103 Cookbook series on In the Kitchen with David, hosted by David Venable, on QVC on November 1st, 2017. The latest two cookbooks, Everyday Dinner Ideas: 103 Easy Recipes for Chicken, Pasta and Other Dishes Everyone Will Love and Easy Cookie Recipes: 103 Best Recipes for Chocolate Chip Cookies, Cake-Mix Creations, Bars, and Holiday Treats Everyone Will Love, are the third and fourth of the series and will be officially released on Tuesday, November 28th, 2017. The two books sold as a bundle deal for $24.95.

Addie Gundry QVC

In the Kitchen with David showcased several of the recipes featured in both cookbooks. Highlights included the Bacon Ranch Mac & Cheese and Taco Soup from Everyday Dinner Ideas and Blueberry Muffin Cookies and Toasted S’mores Cookies from Easy Cookie Recipes. Gundry chatted with David about the best occasions to make each dish, including how they could help enhance the holiday season.

Pre-order Everyday Dinner Ideas and Easy Cookie Recipes

Gundry was last on QVC in June 2017 to debut the first two books in the RecipeLion cookbook series, Family Favorite Casserole Recipes and No-Bake Desserts. She also appeared on Windy City Live, You & Me This Morning, and Good Day Chicago and on Oprah.com, the Chicago Tribune, and PopSugar.

Gundry received her masters in culinary arts at Auguste Escoffier in Avignon, France. She has worked for chefs including Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, and Martha Stewart on management, restaurant openings, brand development, editorial, marketing, and sales. In 2015, Gundry won Cutthroat Kitchen on The Food Network.

The cookbooks are still available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other bookstores near you.