What we're doing
Hi!
My name is Haan, and I am Chef of Taiwanese-Romanian descent based in Canada.
I am incredibly passionate about educating people on Romanian cuisine and sharing my love for the wonderful food I grew up eating. I currently have an online community of over 120k people who I share my take on traditional Romanian recipes with.
This fundraiser is to raise funds for my new cookbook. This book will feature recipes curated by me and my 92-Romanian grandmother, Aura. It will highlight many of the recipes she grew up eating in rural Transylvania.
We aim to have 15-20 recipes in this small collection. But they will all be highly curated and absolutely delicious!
I will also be working with an extremely talented Romanian artist based out of Vienna, Alexandra Hochreiter. She will be doing all the original artwork for the book. Her beautiful, whimsical style is incredibly unique, and I can't wait to see my recipes come to life in her talented hands. There's a sneak peak of some of the original artwork below!
I am 100% self-funding and self-printing this book. I will put it plainly: I won't be able to make this book happen without your help!
What we need
As we stated above, this project is 100% self-funded. We aren't backed by a large publishing house or sponsors.
Creating a cookbook and doing it well is not cheap. We need help covering these costs in order to get this book to your bookshelves.
Your donations will help pay for original artwork, recipe testing and recipe testers, book edits, graphic design, and printing costs.
Your impact
Put simply, this project probably can not be completed to its full extent without your help. And it will definitely not be completed in a timely manner without your help!
Your support is everything. We pre-emptively thank you for it, are immensely grateful for it, and do not take it for granted at all.
Risks and challenges
Whatever money we raise will be put into the creation of this book. However, if we do not meet our funding goals, we may not be able to deliver the finished product that we desire. Less money means fewer recipes, and it also means a longer time until the book needs to be finished.
Funding Tiers and Perks
We are so grateful for your contribution to making this cookbook a reality. We want to make sure we express our gratitude with the best perks we can. Here is what we are offering:
Bronze ($10):
-Behind-the-scenes insight and updates into artwork, menu development, and first dibs on being able to test recipes.
Silver ($25):
-Behind-the-scenes insight and updates into artwork, menu development, and first dibs on being able to test recipes.
-An advance copy of the completed cookbook in PDF.
Gold ($50):
-Behind-the-scenes insight and updates into artwork, menu development, and first dibs on being able to test recipes.
-An advance copy of the completed cookbook in PDF.
-Limited-run art print of selected cookbook original artwork
Platinum ($100):
-Behind-the-scenes insight and updates into artwork, menu development, and first dibs on being able to test recipes.
-An advance copy of the completed cookbook in PDF.
-Limited-run art print of selected cookbook original artwork
-Limited-run t-shirt of selected cookbook original artwork
Diamond ($1000):
-Behind-the-scenes insight and updates into artwork, menu development, and first dibs on being able to test recipes.
-An advance copy of the completed cookbook in PDF.
-Limited-run art print of selected cookbook original artwork
-Limited-run t-shirt of selected cookbook original artwork
-Donation credits in the book itself
-One-on-one virtual cooking class with Chef Haan!
FAQs
What will be in your Romanian cookbook?
We will aim to have 15-20 Romanian recipes and original artwork by a Romanian artist.
Recipes in this book will be inspired by my grandma's favourite recipes when she was young. So they will be a snapshot into the food of a small Transylvanian village.
What will my donation be used for?
This book will be 100% self-funded and self-published.
Your contribution will be used to pay for the original artwork commissioned for this book, to pay professional editors, for book design, and for printing costs.
Put plain and simple, your donations are making this book possible!
When will the book be ready?
If we meet our funding goals, we believe we can have our book completed by December 2024 or in the early months of 2025
Why will there only be 15-20 recipes?
We are limiting this book to 15-20 recipes mainly due to costs. We do not have the resources to do more. That being said, if we surpass our funding goal, we will reinvest all the extra money into including more recipes.
When do you plan on sending us our perks?
Some perks, like behind-the-scenes access, will be sent to you throughout the book's development. For physical items, we expect to ship them out in early 2025.
What happens if you do not reach your funding goal or if we surpass the funding goal?
Any funds raised will be used to publish the book. However, if we do not meet our funding goals, publication may take longer, or we may have to reduce the scope of the project. If we get more money than we anticipated, it will be invested in more artwork, recipes, better design, etc.