1.   I propped up my cookbook next to the cooker and started making the soup.

2.   Between writing her next cookbook and a novel, she listens to Indigo Girls and watches a little TV.

3.   But, unlike some cookbook authors, she does her own recipe testing when she is working on an article for the magazine or her next cookbook.

4.   She is on a six-month leave to work on a novel, but her next cookbook will be on entertaining, she said.

5.   The recipe is included in her next cookbook and takes just over an hour, from start to finish.