# Cookbooks, creativity and what to make for dinner with Christine Flynn

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Podcast: [A HandBuilt Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-handbuilt-life-7757605)
Published: 2026-05-12T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/a-handbuilt-life/2814398
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## Resource

Our guest is chef, recipe developer, bestselling cookbook author and maker Christine Flynn. Hailing from the East Coast of Canada, Christine and Heather had a rollicking conversation that covers big life and career pivots, what it actually takes to write a cookbook (spoiler: it's more expensive than you can imagine), and how to look at a fridge full of sad ingredients and figure out dinner anyway.⁠ ⁠ This is exactly the kind of conversation we hoped to have when we launched AHBL — wide-ranging, honest, and a little bit all over the creative map in the best way. Follow @christineanneflynn for more — her farm life content and what she's cooking are endlessly inspiring.

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