Vicki Lansky

Vicki Lansky is an American author and publisher. Feed Me I'm Yours began as a local fund raising cookbook for the Minneapolis Chapter of the Childbirth Education Association in 1974. Vicki, a new mother and recent New York City transplant to suburban Minneapolis, had not been familiar with local group 'favorite-recipe' fund raising cookbooks. Vicki, then a stay-at-home mom and CEA volunteer suggested this idea at a meeting. CEA said "Sure. Do it and we'll see." Vicki rounded up five friends —some from CEA and some not. She presented an outline of a cookbook that would be of interest to new moms, beginning with making baby food. With only two group working meetings and one name ever suggested for the cookbook, the project was presented to CEA, who agreed to fund its first printing. In the Sunday food section of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, food editor Mary Hart featured Vicki Lansky and the cookbook. This inspired Vicki and her husband, Bruce Lansky, who had worked in sales and marketing, to start a publishing company. Meadowbrook Press was created to sell Feed Me I'm Yours nationally. When their marriage ended in the early 1980s, so did their business partnership.