HealthyCorde Editorial
Editorial
About Corde
HealthyCorde Editorial makes only a few books a year, and it conceives each one to be lived with, looked at, and kept. It doesn't publish on a calendar or chase trends: it puts out a book when there's something that truly deserves to exist on paper, and it handles the whole process, from the first idea to distribution. The bet isn't volume it's that every book be worth keeping. In an industry that produces fast and forgets fast, starting there already makes it something else.
The house thinks about its books in three registers. The first are the books you live with the ones that end up on the kitchen table and actually get used. That's where it all began, with the trilogy of cookbooks Mis Ensaladas, Mis Desayunos, and Mis Cenas and it grew from there with titles like GREEN and Party People, and with books by other authors edited with the same care, like Dish List, Entre Panes, and RobeGrill. That's what the house really is: not one author's project, but a publisher that knows how to take someone's voice and turn it into a well-made book.
Mis Ensaladas, the first one, came out in October 2020, and its story says a lot about the publisher. The industry didn't think much of the idea and had written the project off; on top of that, it was produced in the middle of the pandemic, between April and its launch on October 28. The opposite of what everyone predicted happened: it sold out in three weeks, landed among the hundred best-selling books on Amazon Mexico across every category and stayed number one in healthy recipes for a long time, until it became a case study.
The second register are the books you look at the ones that feel different in your hands and end up on the living-room table, closer to an art object than to a cookbook. Woof and Bernardo Pozas's book work that way: pieces where the photography, the paper, and the scale are almost everything, and that stay in view like one more object in the room.
The third register is Salud y Bienestar Health & Wellness and here the tone shifts completely. These are books to read, the kind sold in bookstores, and they take different shapes. Some are real stories of people who went through a hard time and found a way forward, like Amor Intacto or El Arte de Mentir. Others are written by a specialist, like Reventando Burbujas, by therapist Gabriela Cantú more of a toolkit for sorting out the things that steal your peace. And there are stories for children, like Penélope, written by a child therapist, where the story itself helps the child understand what they feel.
What ties them together isn't the format, but the way they treat the subject: no formulas for being okay, and nothing that sounds like self-help. When there's a story behind it, it lets you see that you're not the only one going through this, that you can come out of it or live well with what you're carrying, and how a real, flesh-and-blood person did it.
That part of this line is made for children is no accident: the house believes emotions should be talked about early. A child who learns to name what they feel becomes an adult who knows how to be there for themselves and for others, and that work, done in time, ends up benefiting everyone.
HealthyCorde Editorial was born out of Cordelia the first recipes and the first stories started with her but it stopped being her project a while ago. Today it's run by a seasoned team, with Edali, decades in the book world, as editorial director, and Angie as art director, guided by a simple rule behind every project: don't publish to fill space, only when there's something worth keeping.
Who it's for depends on the book, but the sensibility is the same. It's for someone who wants a cookbook that gets used and also stays out on display, for someone looking for a book that works as an object inside a home, for someone going through something who wants honest company more than instructions, and for families who want to talk about emotions with their kids without it sounding like a lesson. In every case, what you take home isn't information: it's judgment, care, and something made to last.
That's why it has a natural place inside The Ėditure. It's the same way of choosing well and doing things with intention, put onto paper. A publishing house that isn't trying to fill shelves, but to make sure every book it puts out has a reason to be there.