The Harvard Common Press

The Harvard Common Press is a Boston-based publisher focusing primarily on cookbooks. The company has maintained an award-winning publishing program for over thirty years, with such notable titles as Smoke & Spice, The Not Your Mother’s series of appliance cookbooks, The Joy of Pickling, The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook, and others.

While much of their focus has been on print cookbooks, over the past 3-4 years, the company has delved more deeply into the arena of food innovation, especially as it relates to food and technology startups. Working with entrepreneurs, investors and innovators, the company has developed an extensive network of people who are interested in and evolving the future of food, and Harvard Common Press is poised to play a leading role in that conversation.

Through investments in food startups (including one in Yummly, an intelligent recipe search engine) and strategic partnerships with these companies, Harvard Common Press is working more closely at the forefront of food + technology.