While still taking submissions of manuscripts — often
unagented submissions, which has been attractive to
authors who've been rejected by the first level of gatekeeper to the industry — the numbers of rejected manuscripts
from these new publishers are surprisingly low.
Erica Verrillo submitted 22 Cookbook and Nonfiction Publishers Accepting
Unagented Manuscripts posted at Publishing... And Other Forms of Insanity, saying, «Here are 22 cookbook publishers welcoming proposals
from authors — no agent needed!