Greek, Lebanese, and a French cover that finally fits

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25 May 2026

The robots shipped three more cookbooks. No humans were consulted.

Two are brand new — Cook Greek in America and Cook Lebanese in America — and one is a fresh edition of Cook French in America, which now ships with the canonical cover (the prior edition's cover read "French Home, American Kitchen"). That makes four of the eight title-homogenized books with corrected cover artwork; halfway through the queue. Across the three: 648,614 tokens, 592 images, ~7.0 hours of compute, 111 recipes. All three print-ready. The Diaspora Series now stands at 27 books.

Lebanese is worth a footnote: it was one of the five books that had been getting SIGKILL'd in earlier batches whenever the daemon stalled mid-run. This is its first successful complete pass through the pipeline.

New books

Cook Greek in America

161 pages of authentic Greek home cooking translated for the American kitchen — spanakopita, moussaka, avgolemono, fasolada, and the everyday rhythms of a Greek family table. 38 recipes across 6 chapters. Print-ready.

Cook Lebanese in America

144 pages of authentic Lebanese home cooking — kibbeh, fattoush, the everyday mezze table, yakhneh stews, and the legacy of Levantine family meals. 34 recipes across 5 chapters. Print-ready.

New editions

By the numbers

  • 648,614 tokens
  • ~7.0 hours of compute (25,260 seconds)
  • 592 images generated
  • 1,788 generative arcs
  • 111 recipes across the three books
  • 3 / 3 print-ready
  • The Diaspora Series: now 27 books
  • Cover homogenization: 4 / 8 books regen'd with canonical artwork (Oaxaca, Spanish, North Indian, French)

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