Michele Scicolone wants you to eat your vegetables

March 23, 2014 by
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Michele Scicolone is no stranger to Italian food. She's written prolifically on the subject, publishing several cookbooks that range from appetizers (The Antipasto Table) to desserts (La Dolce Vita) and everything in between. Her latest effort is The Italian Vegetable Cookbook: 200 Favorite Recipes for Antipasti, Soups, Pasta, Main Dishes and Desserts. You can win a copy of the book… read more

Cookbook giveaway – The Italian Vegetable Cookbook

March 23, 2014 by
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Michele Scicolone has authored several cookbooks, most focusing on the foods of Italy and ranging from antipasti to desserts. The prolific author's latest effort is The Italian Vegetable Cookbook: 200 Favorite Recipes for Antipasti, Soups, Pasta, Main Dishes, and Desserts. We're delighted to offer five copies of the book. You can read about Michele's love of vegetables and how they inspired… read more

Cookbook store profile: Featuring Kitchen Arts & Letters

March 22, 2014 by
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Recently we began to offer an EYB feature highlighting independent cookbook stores. Now you can discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. And to make this as strong a feature as we can, we're asking our members to help us. We already know of many great stores,… read more

Chocolate for breakfast

March 21, 2014 by
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Eating chocolate for breakfast is both decadent and delicious. Better yet: it may even be good for you. Fine Cooking just tweeted the delicious chocolate-hazelnut waffles with a Frangelico-brown butter syrup pictured above. But that is far from the only breakfast food you can find that prominently features chocolate. Kevin Lynch of Closet Cooking adds beer to the equation with… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

March 20, 2014 by
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We hope you're enjoying these weekly round-ups and finding some great new recipe ideas from our featured cookbooks, magazines, and blogs.  We want everyone to enjoy these recipes, so we will only ever include ones that have online links. Did you know over 18,000 cookbook recipes (equivalent to 92 cookbooks!) in the EYB library are also available online? These days most publishers give permission for sample recipes from their… read more

James Beard Foundation announces book award nominees

March 20, 2014 by
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Awards season is now in full swing, as the James Beard Foundation Book Award nominees were announced on March 18 (you can view the complete 2014 list here.) If you compare the James Beard nominees to the IACP nominees, there is not a lot of overlap. Overall, the James Beard Foundation list is more traditional than the IACP list -… read more

Down the rabbit hole

March 19, 2014 by
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When you first learn to cook, it's exciting to learn how to make from scratch things that you used to buy ready-made. It begins with simple items like chicken stock and hummus, and quickly progresses to pie crusts, cakes, and bread. You branch out to dairy, starting with yogurt and crème fraiche and graduating to cheese. Channeling your forebears, you learn… read more

What’s the Number One thing you look for in a cookbook?

March 18, 2014 by
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Those of us who collect cookbooks are seekers.  We must be, because not one of us could argue that we need another cookbook -so we must be looking for something when we acquire another. When I think about the cookbooks I've been happiest to add to my collection, I see that they've appealed to me in many different ways.  Some, like Japanese… read more

Cookbook giveaway – A Lighter Way to Bake

March 18, 2014 by
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A Lighter Way to Bake is the fourth cookbook from model turned baker Lorraine Pascale. We're delighted to offer three copies of the book. Lorraine sat down with us to discuss her latest cookbook as well as the renewed interest in baking. To win a copy, just answer the following question: what is your favorite lighter or healthier dessert? Additional… read more

Lighten up your baking

March 18, 2014 by
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Lorraine Pascale's fourth cookbook, A Lighter Way to Bake, hits U.S. stores today (it was published in the UK last October). Eat Your Books sat down with Lorraine to discuss both her new book and baking's resurgence in popularity. To win one of three copies of this book, enter our contest.   EYB: Your new book A Lighter Way to Bake shows bakers how to… read more

Clarissa Dickson Wright dies at 66

March 17, 2014 by
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Clarissa Dickson Wright was someone who enjoyed life to the fullest.  Her career spanned being a barrister at Grey's Inn, to working in two cookbook stores, to cooking in a club and most famously, travelling around the UK in a motorcycle and sidecar with Jennifer Paterson, as The Two Fat Ladies. The Two Fat Ladies were unlikely TV stars -… read more

If you can’t beat ’em, drink ’em?

March 17, 2014 by
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Depending on your point of view, dandelions are either tasty and beautiful rugged perennials or noxious weeds to be eliminated from your landscape. Either way, they have been used as food and medicine across the globe for centuries. The jagged shape of the plant's leaves gave rise to the French name dent de lion (lion's tooth), which was Anglicized to dandelion. Dandelions… read more

IACP announces cookbook award winners

March 16, 2014 by
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The IACP, at its annual conference held this year in Chicago, announced the winners of its 2014 cookbook awards. Stone Edge Farm Cookbook, a self-published cookbook from the vineyard/farm of the same name, took top honors as Book of the Year and also won the Julia Child Award for first cookbook. While The A.O.C. Cookbook may have been defeated in… read more

New science on the “five second rule”

March 15, 2014 by
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Everybody does it. Well, at least 87 percent of people admit to doing it: eating food that has been dropped onto the floor. That is one of the findings in a new study on the transmission of bacteria to food conducted by students at Aston University in Birmingham, U.K. The study offers a bit of support to the longstanding "five… read more

Happy Pi(e) Day!

March 14, 2014 by
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Today is the perfect day for bakers to celebrate both pi (the mathematical constant) and pie (the tasty food with endless variants both savory and sweet) because of the natural synergy between the two. Bakers use pi when scaling pie and cake recipes to determine the proper pan size, and of course bakers love to make pies, whether filled with… read more

Cookbook giveaway – A Change of Appetite

March 13, 2014 by
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 A Change of Appetite is the 7th cookbook from London-based food writer and cookbook author Diana Henry.  We are delighted to offer 3 copies of the book, thanks to the publisher Mitchell Beazley/Octopus Publishing. The book contains the recipes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable-,… read more

What goes on behind the scenes of a cookbook?

March 13, 2014 by
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Diana Henry is a highly-respected food writer and cookbook author. Her 7th cookbook, A Change of Appetite has just been published in the UK and will be published in the USA in June.  Wanting to eat more "healthy" food Diana set out to explore exactly what that means, and made sure the food was also delicious.  She wrote an excellent post… read more

Green, naturally

March 13, 2014 by
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St. Patrick's Day is drawing near, and that means green foods will soon be popping up everywhere. A lot of food (and beer) will be artificially colored green for the celebration, but there are plenty of green foods you can make that don't require a squeeze of the food coloring bottle. The EYB St. Patrick's Day Pinterest board has several interesting green… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

March 13, 2014 by
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Did you know over 18,000 cookbook recipes (equivalent to 92 cookbooks!) in the EYB library are also available online? These days most publishers give permission for sample recipes from their cookbooks to be reprinted on news, magazine, and other websites. To save you searching the web, you'll find them all in one place on EYB where you can add the ones you find appealing to your personal Bookshelf -- or you just may find a… read more

Something to crow about

March 12, 2014 by
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You won't find them indexed on EYB, but these amazing animal sculptures made exclusively from knives, forks, and spoons are worth a share nonetheless. The only thing more amazing than seeing Ohio artist Gary Hovey's stunning work is learning that Gary has been challenged with the effects of Parkinson's disease since 1994. Gary continues his art with the help of… read more

Captivating cardamom

March 11, 2014 by
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Do you remember the first time you tasted cardamom? Perhaps it occurred when you nibbled on Swedish meatballs or drank masala chai. Mysterious yet approachable, cardamom contains notes of cinnamon and nutmeg coupled with an intense aroma and spicy undertone that some describe as camphoric. Hailing from the Indian peninsula, cardamom is used there (and in the Middle East) to… read more

New edition of a classic cookbook

March 11, 2014 by
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Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone first came out in 1998, quickly attaining canonical status among both the meat-free and the pro-vegetable.  10 years later, there was an anniversary edition, and now, only 6 years after that, there's a revised edition. The 10-year anniversary edition, to my mind, didn't have much to add to the original; I concluded it was… read more

Ready, set, breakfast!

March 10, 2014 by
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Over at The Kitchn they're discussing must-haves to keep at your desk for emergency lunches. I was glad to see the shout-out for nut butter: a jar of peanut butter lives in my desk drawer for just such situations. I would add tuna pouches to their list. But even if I have last-minute lunches well in hand, I continually struggle… read more

Making the Grade

March 9, 2014 by
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Last week we learned that fabled New York City restaurant Per Se received a large number of violations during its latest health inspection. This resulted in a "grade pending" while the restaurant appeals the report. (Some news outlets inaccurately reported the restaurant had received a "C" grade.) When diners see a bad restaurant "report card," they may think of rats… read more

Recycled love

March 8, 2014 by
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One of my favorite ways to spend a Saturday afternoon is browsing a dusty secondhand shop, church bazaar, or (weather permitting) an outdoor tag sale. It never ceases to amaze me the perfectly useful things people throw away. Many times cookbooks are among the artifacts gracing overstuffed, disheveled bins. I take my time looking at each title, leafing through the… read more
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