Ann Benoit

Ann Benoit Text + Image -- Producing High Quality Art Cookbooks and Culinary History For The Commercial Food Industry and Compelling Books and Memoirs for Public Figures.

www.AnnBenoitTextAndImage.com

benoit.writerworks@gmail.com

We are a professional book packaging firm.

In the food industry, our clients are Chefs, Restaurateurs, Restaurant Owners, Restaurant Investment Firms, Restaurant Concept Firms, Food Distribution Firms, Retail Grocery Chains and Food Manufacturers.

In other industries and in private life, our other clients include public figures and private individuals with compelling stories to tell.

We recognize that books are powerful sales tools, generating increased traffic and repeat business. We're not just about pictures and text -- we grow your business and create a secondary income stream for you.

Our photos are original and shot on site at your location. We own the finest commercial photography equipment available and our images run the gamut, visually showcasing what is unique about your restaurant or you:

Mouthwatering Food Photography

Sparkling Interior And Exterior Architecture

Detailed Vignettes

Discerning Fine Art Photography

Energizing Portraits

Successful Home Version Recipes

Wine Recommendations Reinforcing your Menu Sales

Original "Art" photographs of everything that makes you Special.

Just as our camera equipment is the best, all photo editing is also produced on the highest quality equipment commercially available. We individually hand edit and color correct each image to further insure the highest possible quality. No lab editing, outside retouchers or "batch" editing is used. Our perfected images are finalized using the most detailed and sharpest digital formats. Finalized images are placed in the leading commercial printer-ready book format and prepared for the best quality printing available. When the finished book returns from the printer, the client receives copies of all photography in formats suitable for professional print advertising as well as web advertising and a license to use all photos in its advertising presence. Ann Benoit Text + Image further provides the client with an original custom video book trailer suitable for website use.

Just as all of our photography is original and specific to your book, so is our text. We convert commercial recipes to a tested home version. We engage in original architectural, historical and biographical research about the restaurant and its key leadership. Research is the starting point for custom text. Original head notes relevant to each recipe are created and wine recommendations from your restaurant grace each recipe. The table of contents, index, acknowledgments, foreword, photo captions, and book jacket are all original and specific to the book.

Each Book Design is unique to the character of the particular restaurant or person and is original to that book. No "cookie cutter" or recycled book designs are used. Whether you are a business or a private individual, original spread sheets are designed using specific elements reinforcing your brand. Your branding is reinforced in the book design and color choices. EBook conversion is available.

From an idea to an award winning book - Ann Benoit Text + Image manages every aspect for the discerning author.

Member of the James Beard Foundation.

Member of IACP - International Association of Culinary Professionals

Member of ACF - American Culinary Federation

No non-celebrity family cookbooks.

View our website at: www.AnnBenoitTextAndImage.com

Contact us at: benoit.writerworks@gmail.com

For I have walked in my integrity...

My foot stands on level ground.

4/19/2012

I was honored to receive the following letter from Savannah Now cookbook reviewer and food writer Sue Ade. Sue Ade is a food writer syndicated in 27 daily newspapers and 12 weeklies located throughout the country including Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Athens, Georgia; Winter Haven, Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Tallahassee, Florida; Amarillo, Ardmore, Lubbock and Austin, Texas; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hannibal and Independence, Missouri; Dodge City; Topeka, Kansas; Columbia South Carolina, and Juneau and Kenai, Alaska to name a few.

Dear Ms. Benoit:

...Your book was spectacular, and had the newspaper allowed me more space, I could have written much, much more. From start to finish your book was a joy -- the pictures, the stories, the recipes --your voice.

Your photographs were a gift -- each and every one -- and the way you wrote of the Preusses -- like love letters to a beloved family.

My favorite photograph... is of Authentic Creole Cafe au Lait, on page 189. You nailed the actual picture of the simultaneous pouring of the liquids into the cup (also swirls in the cup, swirls on the china pattern, too) but it also speaks to the teamwork to make it all happen (check out the reflections on the pots -- I see hands, and more -- and I love them all).

I feel the affection (and commitment) you have for your craft, this cookbook and the city in which you live. And, I know how hard you worked to produce a book of this caliber...

-- you surely made my day.

With gratitude,

Sue

Sue Ade

Food Columnist