Bake it Better cookbook preview, author events, recipes, EYBD Previews, and More

The beginning of cookbook season has snuck up on us, once again. Cookbooktober (August through November) is the most wonderful and busiest time of the year. This week, I would like to point out a few authors who will be on tour this autumn and give you a quick preview of a new baking book that you must know about.

Matt Adlard’s debut cookbook Bake It Better: 70 Show-stopping Recipes to Level-Up Your Baking Skills is impressive. Matt is a self-taught baker and pastry chef from Norwich, England with a large social media following. Bake it Better is a baking course for the home kitchen and contains a wealth of information from the basics ingredients, tools and equipment to step-by-step photos and details for techniques: forming a tart crust, tempering chocolate and kneading dough.

The recipes are indeed show-stopping and include Chocolate and mascarpone travel cake, Peach crumble soufflé, Tiger madeleines, Hazelnut praline mille feuille, and a Tropézienne cube. The aim of the book is to lead us through the baking process. Each recipe comes as a pair, a Tier 1 recipe and a Tier 2 recipe. Tier 1 teaches us the fundamentals and then when we are ready we can take a fundamental element from Tier 1, level it up and create a dessert that mimics that of a professional bakery.

Our shares a look inside the book. Bakers, you need this book! I messaged Matt and learned that he has two events scheduled: September 3rd at the Queen’s Park Book Festival in north-west London and on September 7th a pop-up at Buns From Home (Baker Street Store in London) – he has created a new bun for the event and will be signing books all day!

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Other author/bookstore events you might wish to know about include:

• Lidia Matticchio Bastianich – Lidia’s From Our Family’s Table to Yours
• JJ Johnson – The Simple Art of Rice
• Dan Pelosi – Let’s Eat
• Josh Cohen – I Could Nosh
• Adeena Sussman – Shabbat
• Leah Koenig – Portico
• Alex Guarnaschelli and Ava Clark – Cook it Up
• Jeremy Scheck – ScheckEats
• Emily Scott – Time & Tide
• Jürgen Krauss – German Baking
• Sabrina Ghayour – Flavour
• Diana Henry – Roast Figs, Sugar Snow
• Chiltern Bookshops – United Kingdom
• Topping and Company
• Readings – Australia

Lastly, the NYC Wine & Food Festival is set for October 12th – 15th, check out all the events here. And a reminder Cookbooks & Convos is set in Philadelphia with events running from September 22 to October 24.

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The last few weeks on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• All about induction
• Increase your cooking intelligence with RecipeIQ
• Does this settle the scone debates?
• IACP 2023 Award Finalists
• Do you make the ‘orphan recipes’ in cookbooks?
• Debunking the myth of a ‘national’ dish
• Echoes of kitchens past

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:

• Yiayia: Time-perfected Recipes from Greece’s Grandmothers(US/UK/AU/NZ)
• Baking Yesteryear Cookbook Giveaway (US)
• 2023 Cookbook Preview Listing – (updated)
• Cookbook deals are updated when time permits so check that post for new sales – the publisher links automatically update and please see the ICYMI post.
• 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 that were recently indexed. Remember to view the most current indexed titles – they will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

• Chetna’s Indian Feasts: Everyday Meals and Easy Entertaining by Chetna Makan
• Together at SoBo: More Recipes and Stories from Tofino’s Beloved Restaurant by Lisa Ahier
• First Nations Food Companion: How to buy, cook, eat and grow Indigenous Australian ingredients by Damien Coulthard and Rebecca Sullivan
• The Minnesota Farmers Market Cookbook by Tricia Cornell
• Every. Night. of. the. Week.: Veg: Meat Free Beyond Monday by Lucy Tweed
• Cooking With Exotic Fruits & Vegetables by Jane Grigson and Charlotte Knox
• The Magpie Cafe Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by the North Yorkshire Coast by Ian Robson and Paul Gildroy
• Kitchen Hero: Great Food for Less by Donal Skehan
• Les Petits Sweets: Two-Bite Desserts from the French Pâtisserie by Kathryn Gordon and Anne E. McBride
• The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List, with 60 Recipes for Everything from Kugel to Kubbeh by Alana Newhouse
• A Generous Meal: Modern Recipes for Dinner by Christine Flynn
• Pinch of Nom: Enjoy by Kate and Kay Allinson
• A Rising Tide: A Cookbook of Recipes and Stories from Canada’s Atlantic Coast by Emily Lycopolus and DL Acken
• Cook’s Illustrated Annual Edition 2022 by Cook’s Illustrated Magazine
• Everyday Easy Eats: A collection of loved recipes from friends of Balmoral School
• The Happy Health Plan: Simple and Tasty Plant-based Food to Nourish Your Body Inside and Out by David & Stephen Flynn
• Biscuits: Sweet and Savory Southern Recipes for the All-American Kitchen by Jackie Garvin
• Chinese Homestyle Cooking: 90 Plant-Based Recipes for Homemade Sauces, Favorite Takeout and Dim Sum, and Everyday Meals by Maggie Zhu
• Butter: A Celebration by Olivia Potts
• True North Cabin Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from a North Woods Table by Stephanie Hansen

Member Photo of the Week

Strawberry basil crumb bars from Snackable Bakes: 100 Easy-Peasy Recipes for Exceptionally Scrumptious Sweets and Treats (page 206) by Jessie Sheehan submitted by member Astrid5555

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Featured Online Recipe

Chicken, courgettes, broad beans & Pernod with herb sauce (page 27) from Waitrose Weekend, August 17, 2023 by Diana Henry

Add Waitrose Weekend magazine to your Bookshelf for an additional 1,413 recipes. See our Help Section on how to add Magazines to your Bookshelf.

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Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

Leftover Nando’s ramen (Nandosu no nokorimono wo tsukatta ramen) from Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success by Tim Anderson – Pub date September 28th, 2023

We currently have 6,752 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,645th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

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

• 8 recipes from The Dinner Party: A Chef’s Guide to Home Entertaining by Martin Benn and Vicki Wild
• 3 recipes from The Thrifty Baker: Shop, Bake & Eat on a Budget by Hermine Dossou – GBBO contestant – – Pub date September 12th, 2023.
• A selection of pages and 2 recipes from Diner: Day for Night by Andrew Tarlow – Pub date September 26th, 2023.
• 13 recipes from Snacking Bakes: Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More by Yossy Arefi – Pub date November 7th, 2023.

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Cookbook Giveaways
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• Enter our US/CA giveaway to win one of three copies of Flavor Kitchen: Vibrant Recipes with Creative Twists by Crystelle Pereira. Contest ends August 26th, 2023.
• Enter our US giveaway to win one of three copies of Ed Mitchell’s Barbecue by Ed and Ryan Mitchell along with a 6 bottle set of Mitchell’s low/no sugar BBQ sauces. Contest ends September 2nd, 2023.

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

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