DutchessPDX

While I can't comment on the viability of your cookbook or going about researching it, I do have a recommendation on the publishing end. There are so many ways to publish your book for free or very low cost outside of the traditional book publishing business. I would recommend you look at something like Apples iBook, it's a very user friendly platform for publishing ebooks and allows you to submit items to their book store for a very nominal fee (I think it's $100 to $150 to add it to the online bookstore). Also, as Pam R mentions amazon has great self-publishing tools as well.

For me ecookbooks are basically a necessity. I live in a urban condo so space is limited so it was either toys (where am I going to put my chamber sealer, hello!) or cookbooks. Moving to ebooks was a no brainer. I also like taking my cookbooks or favorite recipes with me, so I have most of my personal recipes all stored online in dropbox and copies of my ebooks on my tablet. Sharing is easy too. You can always do a screen grab or screenshot of your recipe and email it to someone and voila! instant copy of the recipe.