Why you should be using fish sauce in more foods

August 19, 2017 by
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 If you have a bottle of fish sauce in your refrigerator, you probably purchased it to make a Thai dish, but you don't use it much - if at all - outside of that cuisine. Kay Plunkett-Hogge thinks that's a shame. She believes that the funky sauce and its close relatives can add a unique punch to savory recipes of… read more

More female chefs mean a change in kitchen culture

August 18, 2017 by
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  Twenty years ago, it was rare to find a restaurant kitchen helmed by a female chef. Pioneers like Judy Rodgers and Alice Waters paved the way for change, and in recent years the number of female-run kitchens has increased dramatically, up by more than 50 percent in the last ten years. Tamar Adler (writing for Vogue) takes a look… read more

In Search of Israeli Cuisine

August 18, 2017 by
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In Search of Israeli Cuisine is a film that highlights the dynamic food scene in Israel. The film's chef/guide is Michael Solomonov, a James Beard Award winning chef and co-owner of acclaimed Zahav in Philadelphia. He is also the author of the cookbook Zahav (one of my most treasured books). The chef was born in Israel and has lived and traveled there… read more

Friday Flashback – Pok Pok

August 18, 2017 by
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Any lover of Thai food more than likely has Pok Pok: Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes, and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand on their bookshelf. Even those who don't own the book, have heard of Ike's Vietnamese Fish Sauce Wings or as I call them one of the best wings in the world. Andy Ricker, James Beard Best Chef of the… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

August 18, 2017 by
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Did you know adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to build your personal recipe collection?  You can do this even if you have a free membership!  Try it out now and see how easy it is. Browse the recipes below, choose one that appeals, click on the link, and add it to your Bookshelf.… read more

Jamie Oliver gets back to basics

August 17, 2017 by
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  Jamie Oliver's career has been going strong for nearly 20 years. Beginning Monday, August 21, he is adding to his lengthy credentials by returning to the small screen with a new program called 'Jamie's Quick and Easy Food'. The chef recently spoke with Food & Wine to discuss why he chose to get back to basics in his new… read more

Neighborhood – Hetty McKinnon – Review, Recipe and Giveaway

August 17, 2017 by
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Neighborhood: Hearty Salads and Plant-Based Recipes from Home and Abroad by Hetty McKinnon is a must-have collection of show-stopping yet simple vegetable-packed global recipes, delivered against a backdrop of charming stories of food, family, and friendship. Based on the beauty of this book, I had to track down her first title, Community (both are keepers). Hetty's salads can turn the… read more

Sweet by Ottolenghi

August 17, 2017 by
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The UK release date of Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh is less than a month away! It feels like we have been waiting forever, right? As the publisher did with Nopi's release, if you preorder Sweet from any online retailer in the UK  you will receive a digital access code with the book. This will enable you to review… read more

Is it time to bring back the bread machine?

August 16, 2017 by
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  The Instant Pot may be today's "must-have" small appliance, but 20 years ago that title belonged to the bread machine. In the early 1990s, they consumed copious amounts of precious counter space, providing users a "set and forget" tool for fresh bread. After the turn of the century, their popularity waned and most were relegated to the trash bin… read more

La Latina – Review, recipe and giveaway

August 16, 2017 by
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When spunky Grace Ramirez was a guest on The Chew a few months ago promoting her work and cookbook, I had to find out more. I reached out to Grace about La Latina, her brilliant cookbook published by Random House New Zealand in 2015, and she immediately responded by mailing out a copy to me. La Latina takes us on a… read more

What is ‘nduja?

August 15, 2017 by
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Spreadable salumi might sound like an oxymoron, but it is in fact a product, namely an Italian specialty called 'nduja. Made from pork, chilli peppers, herbs and spices, the fiery spread (pronounced en-doo-yah) comes from the Calabrian region of Italy. As Australian Gourmet Traveller explains, its spicy flavor enhances many dishes, from eggs to pizza and beyond.  In addition to its… read more

Around the World in 120 Salads – Review, recipe and giveaway

August 15, 2017 by
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Katie and Giancarlo are a dynamic duo that met in 1997. He was a restaurateur and she an artist. He loved her painting, she loved his pasta and now the pair have two restaurants, a cookery school, have written over a dozen cookbooks and have two sons. One of their newest titles, Around the World in 120 Salads: Fresh, Healthy,… read more

Sri Lanka The Cookbook – Review, Recipe and Giveaway

August 15, 2017 by
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The Sri Lankan Civil War raged for over a decade due to ethnic tensions between the Buddhist Sinhalese majority and the Hindu Tamil minority. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 citizens lost their lives and hundreds of thousands of civilians were displaced. But in the pages of Sri Lanka: The Cookbook, husband and wife team, Prakash Sivanathan (who is Tamil) and Niranjala… read more

Joan Nathan’s list of the best Jewish cookbooks

August 14, 2017 by
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  Joan Nathan knows a thing or two about Jewish cooking. She is the author of over a dozen cookbooks in the genre, including Jewish Cooking in America, which won both the James Beard Award and the IACP / Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award in 1994. (Learn more about Joan in her EYB author story.) Recently she spoke with… read more

The Joys of Jewish Preserving, Recipe and Giveaway

August 14, 2017 by
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Emily Paster is the voice behind the blog, West of the Loop, and co-founder of the Chicago Food Swap, one of the most active and dynamic food swap groups in the country. Her first book Food Swap shared her advice for starting up swaps, recipes that work well in the swap environment and happens to share the best salted caramel sauce… read more

Chefs recall their greatest influences

August 13, 2017 by
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  Every chef - and probably most passionate home cooks as well - can recall a dish that inspired them to dive headlong into the world of food, whether it was a top chef who guided them or a family member passing down cherished treasures. I find these stories fascinating so I was tickled to see top chefs recently sharing… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

August 13, 2017 by
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Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy - but you don't have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest finds. Every day recipes are added from the best blogs and websites. As a member, you can also add your… read more

Two Kitchens – Rachel Roddy – Review, Recipe and Giveaway

August 12, 2017 by
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Two Kitchens: Family Recipes from Sicily and Rome by Rachel Roddy, the award-winning Guardian Cook columnist and winner of the Andre Simon and Guild of Food Writers' awards, delivers a glorious book highlighting the food that comes from her two kitchens - one in Sicily and the other in Rome. (Because we index every recipe from the Guardian Cook, you… read more

The story of food in photography

August 12, 2017 by
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In the Instagram age, where everyone's screens are saturated with lush, colorful, and precisely arranged images of food and drink, we have to be reminded that for most of human existence, people did not have photographs of food to entice them to eat or guide them to cook. From photography's earliest days to the present, however, food and photography have… read more

GIVEAWAY: The Instant Pot® Duo Mini 3 Quart and the Instant Pot® Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook

August 11, 2017 by
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  Meet the new addition to the Instant Pot® Family - the Duo Mini 3 Qt 7-in-1 Multi- Use Programmable Pressure Cooker. She is super adorable and takes far less space on our counters or in our pantry. Perfect for smaller jobs, traveling, and for folks who have a smaller crowd to feed. For kids heading back to college, it is… read more

Friday Flashback – Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry

August 11, 2017 by
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Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving by Cathy Barrow is my bible for canning and food preservation. When Cathy first announced she was writing a book, I was thrilled. I had been envious of her gardening posts and was anxious to learn more about canning.  Cathy's book is gorgeous with plenty of photographs and extensive attention… read more

In defense of an over-stuffed pantry

August 11, 2017 by
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  Every so often I go through my pantry, promising myself that I will be ruthless and get rid of all of the things I don't use, like that 1/8 of a bag of forbidden rice or those nori sheets that have been in my pantry for longer than I care to admit. (Also, how did I end up with… read more

Spanish Made Simple – Review, Recipe and Giveaway

August 10, 2017 by
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Spanish Made Simple: Foolproof Spanish Recipes for Every Day by Omar Allibhoy, the chef behind the Tapas Revolution chain of restaurants in the UK and cookbook by the same name, guides you through the basics of 100 key Spanish dishes.  Omar is one of the UK's Spanish superstars having worked for both Ferran Adrià and Gordon Ramsay. His philosophy is… read more

Making bad drinks good

August 10, 2017 by
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  Drinks of the 21st century - which often incorporate exotic infusions of herb and spices, feature high-quality craft spirits, and offer sophisticated flavors - have elevated cocktail hour from the days of sickly-sweet Cosmos and Amaretto Sours. Now bartenders are reimagining these and other much-maligned drinks like Midori Sours and the Grasshopper (a drink I recall from grandparent's supper-club… read more

Why did Rocco DiSpirito quit cooking?

August 9, 2017 by
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In the late 1990s and into the early aughts, Rocco Dispirito was at the top of his game. He had a successful New York City restaurant, Union Pacific, that was praised by critics and frequented by celebrities.  He was one of the earliest "celebrity chefs," before food television and social media rocketed an entire cadre of chefs into the spotlight. But in 2004,… read more
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