This week: Last minute homemade food gifts, EYBD Previews, giveaways and more

If you are like me, the holidays have arrived far too soon and left us looking for some last minute gifts. Not wanting to face the crowds and online ordering getting close to cut off dates, making a delicious homemade food gift is a life saver.

One of my good friends, Jenni, Pastry Chef Online, has been publishing a food gift idea a day for the last few weeks. Her recipes are so well tested and delicious, so please check out her site, specifically: candy, cookies, and chocolate! Her recipe index also shares condiments, jams and other giftable ideas. A gift of fudge and a prettily wrapped jar of caramel sauce would be a wonderful gift. Bonus – if you ever have any baking questions, Jenni is always available to help. Not only an amazing chef, she is a wonderfully helpful friend to all.

Other ideas for homemade food gifts include:

• Chocolate peanut butter millionaire bars from Half Baked Harvest by Tieghan Gerard
• A thermos of Champurado from The Kitchn
• Intense dark choc truffles from Delicious Magazine (UK), December 2022 by Paul A. Young
• Smoky tamarind salted caramels from The Guardian Feast supplement, November 26, 2022 by Thomasina Miers
• White chocolate bark with chilli, cranberries and pumpkin seeds  from Sainsbury’s Magazine, September 2015 by Debbie Major

Lastly, Jamie Oliver will be in the US promoting the release of One: Simple One-Pan Wonders in the States. Our Calendar has been updated this week but events have calmed due to the impending holiday season.

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The last week on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• In defense of recipes
• Food TV in 2022 – the good, the bad, and the ugly
• Bittman interviews Claudia Roden

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one. Darcie can be followed on Instagram at darcie_bakes.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

• What would be in your cookbook “go bag”?
• Giuseppe’s Italian Bakes Cookbook Giveaway and Quick Bites (US/UK/AU/NZ)
• Showstopping Cakes – Cookbook Giveaway (US/CA)
• ICYMI: Jenny’s Best Books of 2022 and Cookbook Gift Guide with Giveaway (Worldwide)
• ICYMI: The Tomte Cake and Giveaway (Worldwide)
• ICYMI: 2022 Holiday Gift Guide & Giveaway (US)
• December 2022 Great Big Cookbook Club
• 2023 Cookbook Preview Listing – updated with new titles
• Cookbook deals are updated when time permits so check that post for new sales — the publisher links automatically update (the ICYMI post explains the post in detail).
• Calendar – check for updates

My Instagram is thecookbookjunkies.

Jenny and the EYB Team

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Recently Indexed Titles

Our team of member and pro indexers are working hard indexing titles, both new and old. Below are just a few highlighted titles. A reminder: newly indexed titles will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf so you will always know which titles have just been indexed. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

• Bliss on Toast: 75 Simple Recipes by Prue Leith
• Margaret Fulton Baking by Margaret Fulton
• The New Cooking School Cookbook: Advanced Fundamentals by America’s Test Kitchen
• The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Book of Desserts by the Editors of Good Housekeeping
• Taste Le Tour: Regional French Cuisine by Gabriel Gaté
• The Best of Bridge: Royal Treats for Entertaining by Best of Bridge Publishing
• James McNair’s Potato Cookbook by James McNair
• Sourdough by Science: Understanding Bread Making for Successful Baking by Karyn Lynn Newman
• Chef Daniel Boulud: Cooking in New York City by Daniel Boulud and Peter Kaminsky
• Goldy’s Kitchen Cookbook: Cooking, Writing, Family, Life by Diane Mott Davidson

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Member Photo of the Week

Coffee and caramelized white chocolate meringues from Small Batch Bakes: Baking Cakes, Cookies, Bars and Buns for One to Six People (page 62) by Edd Kimber submitted by member Astrid5555

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Featured Online Recipe

Crispy cheesy latkes from The Kitchn by Eitan Bernath

Add The Kitchn to your bookshelf for 9,645 additional recipes

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Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

Cajun rotisserie chicken dip from Simple Fancy: A Chef’s Big-Flavor Recipes for Easy Weeknight Cooking by Jason Santos – looks like a great easy appetizer for the holidays.

We currently have 5,951 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,485th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: All Previews are indexed, whether the full book is indexed or not. Any Preview recipe can be added to your Bookshelf.

• 3 recipes from Plantbased: 80 nourishing, umami-rich recipes from the kitchen of a passionate chef by Alexander Gershberg – Pub date January 31, 2023.
• 6 recipes from The Little Citrus Cookbook by Catherine Phipps – Pub date February 2, 2023
• 4 recipes from Guga: Breaking the Barbecue Rules by Gustavo Tosta – Pub date April 25, 2023.
• A selection of pages from Franklin Smoke: Wood. Fire. Food. by Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay – Pub date May 7, 2023.

Cookbook Giveaways
Click on the Blue Link Below to Enter

• Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of two copies of Trap Kitchen: Mac N’ All Over The World by Malachi Jenkins and Roberto Smith. Contests ends December 20th, 2022.
• Enter our US/UK/CA giveaway to win one of three copies of Bigger Bolder Baking: Every Day: Easy Recipes to Bake Through a Busy Week by Gemma Stafford. Contests ends December 21st, 2022.

The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways including those open worldwide and to other regions.

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