On-boarding issues are normal. 
So is doing things not in your job description.
To make this book, I assume you’ll get a lot of recipies and they’ll be a horrific mingle of word docs, PDFs, plain text and whatever else.
Your first job is to organize it all. Second job is to normalize all that data. Get it all into the same file format. Maybe that is plain text, maybe XML or HTML. Then you can select a layout tool and get to work. Please not power point.