How cookbooks can help build resilience

February 20, 2025 by
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I am an eternal optimist: no matter how bleak things look I always look for the silver lining or imagine a way the situation can turn out for the better. With all of the negative news out these days, this philosophy is becoming more difficult to maintain. Today's article from The Independent doesn't help; it provides another pessimistic forecast for… read more

Danube Cookbook Review and Giveaway

February 20, 2025 by
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Enter our US and UK giveaway to win one of two copies of Danube - Recipes and Stories from Eastern Europe by Irina Georgescu. Irina Georgescu holds a treasured place in my culinary library. Her previous works, Carpathia: Food from the Heart of Romania and Tava: Eastern European Baking and Desserts From Romania & Beyond captivated me completely. As I… read more

What foods do you look forward to the most for each season?

February 19, 2025 by
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Since the advent of refrigeration and air transport of foods across the globe, you can pretty much get any fruit or vegetable you desire any time of the year here in the US. However, there is a vast difference between commercially grown strawberries, plucked before they are actually ripe and shipped halfway around the world, and the first berry from… read more

Why is this Australian cookbook selling for $250?

February 18, 2025 by
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Back in 2015, Australian blogger Belle Gibson rocketed to fame after claiming that she beat brain cancer not through modern medicine but rather by changing her diet. She published a cookbook, The Whole Pantry, and developed an app of the same name, promising to contribute a portion of the proceeds from both to charity. After charities claimed they had received… read more

Rooza by Nadiya Hussain – Cookbook Review and Giveaway

February 17, 2025 by
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Enter our US giveaway to win one of two copies of Rooza: A Journey through Islamic Cuisine Inspired by Ramadan and Eid by Nadiya Hussain. Nadiya Hussain's star has continued to rise since winning The Great British Bake Off in 2015. Authoring ten cookbooks and several children's titles along with many cooking shows. In Rooza, Nadiya describes Ramadan as an… read more

Food news antipasto

February 16, 2025 by
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With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. appointed as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, raw milk advocates believe there is potential for increased availability of raw milk products. Currently, regulations vary from state to state with some allowing raw milk sales and others banning the practice. The Bittman Project recently posted a lengthy piece about the pros and cons… read more

Sweet and salty contraband

February 14, 2025 by
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Many food additives that are allowed in in other countries are banned by the EU and UK: ingredients such as brominated vegetable oil and bleached flour and additives including certain food colorings. These ingredients have been linked to a variety of health issues including cancer. Normally this isn’t something that would cause a stir, but demand for US snacks and… read more

2025 cookbook news, recipes, EYBD Previews and more

February 14, 2025 by
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In our last roundup, I shared some cookbook highlights of 2025 with our Members. This week I will cover a few more. I have been updating the 2025 Cookbook Preview post and they keep rolling in. If you are like me, your wishlist is growing by leaps and bounds. In the aforementioned roundup - I shared the publication date for… read more

March 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary

February 13, 2025 by
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As our members know, each month we offer several cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around the interwebs and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might want to cook or bake something other than our choices.  We want to get this information out to you so you can prepare… read more

How the ‘Shirley Temple King’ is changing restaurants

February 12, 2025 by
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When I was a young girl, my grandfather would occasionally pick me up to take me to my grandparents' farm for the weekend. On the way home we would stop at a local bar, where he would have a beer with his buddies while I nursed a Shirley Temple. At five years old, I thought that was the height of… read more

The pursuit of the perfect boiled egg

February 12, 2025 by
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In a quest for perfection, people can fall down some interesting rabbit holes. They will go to lengths that makes the average person scratch their head in puzzlement. This is true of nearly any human endeavor, and perhaps especially so for cooking. There are bakers who weigh the most minute quantities of ingredients in tenths of a gram, espresso connoisseurs… read more

Food news antipasto

February 9, 2025 by
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Celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay opened the doors earlier this week on his "most ambitious project yet" in the tallest building in the City of London. The chef has launched two restaurants, a bar and a cookery school at 22 Bishopsgate on February 3. Netflix is producing a documentary series about the project that follows Ramsay in the run up to… read more

Ketchup is a category, not a sauce

February 8, 2025 by
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When most of us think of ketchup, we envision the tomato-vinegar-sugar sauce that is often served alongside burgers and fries. However, as explained at Gastro Obscura, ketchup is actually a catch-all category rather than a single sauce. It has a long and interesting history that spans the globe and includes all manner of ingredients including fruits, vegetables, fungi. What most… read more

Retailers limit egg purchases to combat hoarding

February 7, 2025 by
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Well, it seems that we learned nothing during the Covid-19 pandemic, as hoarding has again reared its ugly, selfish head. Trader Joe's and Costco recently imposed limits on how many cartons of eggs that shoppers can buy at one time. This action came after viral videos showed people piling huge quantities of eggs into their carts. It wasn't clear if… read more

Culinary ride-or-die – or have them take an Uber

February 6, 2025 by
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In response to Darcie's post about finding a culinary ride-or-die, I felt compelled to share my story from the other side of the kitchen counter. My husband Jim loves my cooking, but he comes with an encyclopedia of dietary preferences. When a friend invited us for dinner and thoughtfully asked about food restrictions, I simply replied, "No bell peppers for… read more

Finding a culinary ride-or-die

February 5, 2025 by
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My spouse and I have been together for nearly three decades. When we first got together, neither of us could cook well. I was just starting to become interested in making meals from scratch after growing up on a diet of mainly boxed and canned foods, and my spouse mainly went along for the ride. Since then I have been… read more

Is this the perfect way to make cacio e pepe?

February 4, 2025 by
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Cacio e pepe can be a tricky dish to master. Do it right, and you are rewarded with a silky sauce for your pasta. Do it wrong, and you end up with clumps of rubbery cheese swimming in oil instead. There are many recipes that claim to be foolproof, but even those are prone to failure. However, scientists recently set… read more

The Giveaway Roundup

February 3, 2025 by
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All of our current giveaways are now on one convenient roundup which will be continually updated! If you are having any difficulties with entering our giveaways, please see our step-by-step help post. Giveaways are tagged by the countries the contests are open to. Bookmark the searches below for easy reference! To enter our contests click on the blue link beneath the… read more

Food news antipasto

February 3, 2025 by
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The Bocuse d'Or culinary competition was held last week, and this year France claimed the title, followed by Denmark and Sweden. The French team was led by 28-year-old Paul Marcon, whose father Regis won the prestigious competition in 1995. The UK team finished in fifth place while the US team ranked seventh in the competition, which is held every other… read more

Tips on making your freezer work for you

February 1, 2025 by
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The freezer may be the most undersung appliance. They have become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to imagine not having one, but they only became available just a few generations ago for most people. While most of us use the freezer as a place to chuck ready made items like frozen pizza or to make and store ice cubes,… read more

How did iconic pasta shapes get created?

January 31, 2025 by
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Until fairly recently, I took pasta shapes for granted. I never thought about when, why, or how different shapes came about, to me they just always were. That is silly, of course, because everything has an origin story, regardless of whether it has been lost to history. The good news is that for many iconic shapes, their origin stories are… read more

Best of the Best 2024

January 30, 2025 by
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We have assembled 353 lists from around the world to create our 16th annual Best of the Best. The top book of 2024 is Ottolenghi Comfort. This probably is not a big surprise to members who have been following our Best of the Best for years - almost every year Ottolenghi has had a new cookbook published, it has been… read more

Best Selling Books of 2024

January 30, 2025 by
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Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2024 which we then included in our Best of the Best of 2024. Now we asked them for their top sellers of 2024 (published in any year). It would be interesting to compare these charts to non-specialist store/online retailer book sales but it is… read more

Cookbook Deals

January 30, 2025 by
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I will update this post when time permits – new additions are always at the top of each bulleted list below. If no update is available, be sure to check the publisher links and "cookbook deals" links under each region as they are updated periodically. If you spot a deal that isn't in the links below (publishers and or separate entries)… read more

Traditional foods to celebrate the Lunar New Year

January 29, 2025 by
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Today marks the beginning of a very special time for the Chinese and several other cultures, as it is the beginning of the lunar new year. This holiday, celebrated by 20% of the world’s population, is honored differently in various countries, but food features prominently in all celebrations. For the Chinese new year, 2025 ushers in the Year of the… read more
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