Ah, that's actually her first cookbook, co-written with Sil Strung.
Such publications are considered "book club" sales, and are permitted under the contract. The reason we were puzzled is that nobody at the publishing company told us what was happening. When Eileen first started writing for them they were locally owned (in Minnesota) and communicasted very well. She eventually wrote 5 cookbooks for them. But toward the end the British firm bought the company, and they became very uncooperative.
They even refused to sell Eileen cookbooks to sell ourselves. That's pretty much standard practice for all publishing companies. They'll sell books to the author at the dealer discount, around 50% of list price. But once the Brits took over that was all over--another reason among several that we started publishing our own books.
