It’s not too late to celebrate National Pie Day

January 23, 2025 by
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Today is National Pie Day and although the day is touted as a ‘national’ event in the US, people from around the world have joined in the celebration of all things pie. Apparently, there are two National Pie Days - December 1 and January 23 - plus the unofficial day of March 14 (pi). I'm someone who believes that pie >… read more

Heritage Cookies of the Mediterranean World – Cookbook Giveaway

January 23, 2025 by
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Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of five e-book versions of Heritage Cookies of the Mediterranean World by Scott and Kate Pavelle. Kate and Scott Pavelle are the couple behind the website Heritage Cookies and the author of two cookbooks. Heritage Cookies of the Old and New World and Heritage Cookies of the Mediterranean World. Kate is a fiction writer… read more

James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards Semifinalists

January 22, 2025 by
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Today the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2025 Restaurant and Chef Awards. This list includes categories in national awards such as Best New Restaurant, Outstanding Baker, Outstanding Chef, Outstanding Pastry Chef, Outstanding Restaurateur, and Rising Star Chef of the Year, plus regional categories for chefs. 2025 marks a milestone for the Foundation: the 35th anniversary of the James Beard… read more

Feasts of Good Fortune Cookbook Giveaway

January 22, 2025 by
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Enter our US giveaway to win one of two copies of Feasts of Good Fortune: 75 Recipes for a Year of Chinese American Celebrations, from Lunar New Year to Mid-Autumn Festival and Beyond by Hsiao-Ching Chou and Meilee Chou Riddle. The authors have a few events planned to celebrate this book. Hsiao-Ching Chou is the author of Chinese Soul Food:… read more

January 2025 EYB Cookbook Club Summary

January 21, 2025 by
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Each month we previously offered at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. This summer we cooked our favorite recipe from any cookbook, magazine, blog or online option and had a huge increase in participation and after a poll in the group we have decided to allow posting from all cookbooks and to offer one featured cookbook.… read more

Charles Phan has died at age 62

January 21, 2025 by
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Today we learned the unfortunate news that Charles Phan, renowned chef and author of Vietnamese Home Cooking and The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food, has passed away at the age of 62. Reports emerged over the weekend indicating that the talented chef had been admitted to the hospital. His family has since confirmed that he suffered cardiac arrest. Phan was… read more

Over 170,000 Books in our EYB Library and hints to manually adding books

January 20, 2025 by
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We have recently achieved a significant milestone: our EYB Library now boasts over 170,000 listed books. Among these, almost 14,000 are indexed, while 410 are currently in the indexing process. Additionally, 945 books do not contain recipes. It is likely that there are many more books without recipes, and we have been diligently marking them as we discover them (let… read more

Food news antipasto

January 19, 2025 by
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Famed NYC chef André Soltner whose restaurant Lutèce set the standard for Manhattan fine dining, died this week at the age of 92. Lutèce was awarded four Michelin stars and was ranked as the best restaurant in the US by Zagat for six years in the 1980s. After he sold the restaurant Soltner remained activity in the culinary world, teaching… read more

What do you take when you have to evacuate?

January 18, 2025 by
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The fires in LA county have been devastating, with thousands of homes burning down, including entire neighborhoods and a huge swath of a whole city. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, leaving nearly everything behind and hoping for a miracle. One of those people is food writer and editor Kat Thompson, who shared why she didn't… read more

Looking at 2025 cookbooks, EYBD Previews, recipes and more

January 17, 2025 by
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While most of us are still enjoying the fruits of 2024's cookbook releases, I am already looking at those titles we are looking forward to this year. This week I will highlight a few great books to be placed on our wishlists. The last few weeks, I have been working on adding 2025 titles to the preview post and cleaning… read more

What’s your favorite underrated ingredient?

January 16, 2025 by
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Just as cooks have a favorite spice that flies under the radar, they also have a favorite ingredient that gets overlooked by others. For me, it's parsley. While it is frequently relegated to being a sad, wilted sprig of garnish in midrate restaurants, parsley possess a get-along-with-everyone flavor that warrants at least co-starring status and can even shine as the… read more

Physical media in a digital age

January 15, 2025 by
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We have reported before about how cookbooks continue to do well while much of the publishing market struggles with sluggish and even falling sales. The usual arguments for the success of this genre are that people prefer the tactile feel of books, it is easier to cook or bake from a printed page than from a screen, and that cookbooks… read more

The Giveaway Roundup

January 14, 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

Southern cooking legend Nathalie Dupree has died at age 85

January 14, 2025 by
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We are saddened to share the news that Nathalie Dupree, celebrated Southern chef and cookbook author, passed away yesterday at age 85. South Carolina chefs shared outpourings of affection for Dupree, with Carrie Morey saying "Heaven just got a little more buttery and delicious...you have always inspired me — to take a chance, keep going, do for others, work harder,… read more

February 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary

January 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

Food news antipasto

January 12, 2025 by
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Coffee drinkers have another reason to enjoy their morning cup as a new study found a link between having a pre-lunch coffee and a reduced risk of developing heart disease. The link is only for those who indulge in caffeine in the morning - those who drank it throughout the day don't seem enjoy the same benefits. “Our findings indicate… read more

Wine pie: too good to be true

January 11, 2025 by
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Have you seen the latest viral food video of wine pie? Content creator @itsmejuliette garnered over 8 million views with her recent video in which she mixes an entire bottle of wine with store cupboard ingredients in a prepared pie crust. She pulls it out of the oven and it appears to be set into a jelly-like state. The final clip shows… read more

Are seed oils scary?

January 10, 2025 by
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If you spend any time at all on video-based social media, you have probably seen warnings from fitness influencers, purported health advocates, and even some physicians that villainize seed oils. These videos usually make claims that seed oils such as sunflower oil, canola oil, and corn oil are responsible for obesity, heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses. While there may… read more

A January reset doesn’t need to be a battle

January 9, 2025 by
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The beginning of a new year feels like the perfect time to make a change, whether that involves organizing, exercising, or eating. This explains why Veganuary and Dry January are both increasingly popular activities. However, some people feel like this reset has become a battle between meat eaters and vegans or teetotalers with drinkers. These commitments need not be divisive,… read more

The best ways to store cookware and lids

January 8, 2025 by
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A common New Year's resolution is to become more organized. I would not be surprised if more containers, organizers, and other storage solutions are sold in the first month of the year than the rest of the months combined. Unfortunately, many of the so-called 'best' organizing products end in disappointment. Some are flimsy while others seem better in theory than… read more

Food news antipasto

January 6, 2025 by
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We will start the new year by looking back at 2024 with Food and Wine's report on its top food stories of 2024. I had forgotten about a couple of these, such as the foray into surge pricing by some restaurant chains and California becoming the first state to ban sell-by dates. Others stuck in my mind including the many… read more

The end of an Ottolenghi era

January 5, 2025 by
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Yotam Ottolenghi is by far the most popular author in the EYB Library. The top three books by number of Bookshelves are his, and he has five of the top 10 books in the Library. If you look at individual recipes ranked by buzz, Ottolenghi again dominates. For the past seven years he has written a weekly column for The… read more

Over 100,000 ckbk recipes indexed, EYBD previews and more

January 3, 2025 by
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In May of 2024, we announced that we have connected the EYB database to ckbk’s library of digital cookbooks. ckbk is a cookbook subscription site where you can access the full content of 936 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed here on EYB (and more will be indexed every week). For all the details, please see Jane’s post. If any of this month’s… read more

An avocado a day keeps the doctor away?

January 2, 2025 by
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Developing a daily avocado habit can lead to better food choices, according to a recent study. The study of 1,000 participants split them up into two groups, with one eating an avocado each day and the other eating their regular diet. Researchers found that the first group ended up making better dietary decisions overall, eating more vegetables and fewer foods… read more

Lucky foods to start 2025

January 1, 2025 by
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We've written before about foods that are traditional to eat on the first day of the New Year to bring about good fortune and prosperity, but for me this never gets old. First, I majored in anthropology, so cultural traditions around food fascinate me. Second, I like eating many of the so-called lucky foods because they are delicious. Doughnuts are… read more
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