June 2018 Cookbook Highlights and new EYB Book Previews

Cookbook lovers have a few moments to breathe and build more bookshelves before August ushers in another wave of cookbook titles. That doesn’t mean we don’t have great books coming out this month – just a far less number.  I am working on promotions for many of these titles so please check back. While you are here make sure you have entered all our incredible giveaways that are open.

Before I begin with June’s highlights, I want to share our latest EYB Book Previews with you on upcoming, current and backlist books. Those titles include:

• Dosa Kitchen: Recipes for India’s Favorite Street Food  by Nash Patel & Leda Scheintaub    is being released this month. Dosas, a popular Indian street food, are thin, rice- and lentil-based pancakes that can be stuffed with or dipped into a variety of flavorful fillings. This beautiful new title shows you how to make this favorite comfort food at home with a master batter, plus 50 recipes for fillings, chutneys, and even cocktails to serve alongside.
• Flavor Bombs: The Ingredients and Techniques That Make Taste Explode by Adam Fleischman with Tien Nguyen     
• At Home with Natalie: Simple Recipes for Healthy Living from My Family’s Kitchen to Yours by Natalie Morales   
• Cauliflower: Over 70 Exciting Ways to Roast, Rice, and Fry One of the World’s Healthiest Vegetables by Oz Telem   
• Happy Food: Fast, Fresh, Simple Vegan by Bettina Campolucci Bordi   
• In Good Company: Easy Recipes for Everyday Gatherings by Corbin Tomaszeski     (don’t forget to enter our GIVEAWAY! (US/CAN only)
• Everyday Monet: A Giverny-Inspired Gardening and Lifestyle Guide to Living Your Best Impressionist Life by Aileen Bordman is another June release. Filled with lush photos of Monet’s milieu – from the gardens of Giverny to the streets of Normandy – and reproductions of Monet’s most famous paintings, Aileen’s newest title is a practical guide to finding ways to implement Monet’s beautiful designs into any home and garden, whether you live on a country estate or in a city apartment, and is a memorable keepsake Monet devotees will treasure. Aileen’s Monet’s Palate Cookbook is a treasure as well.  
• The Mushroom Cookbook: A Guide To Edible Wild And Cultivated Mushrooms – And Delicious Seasonal Recipes To Cook With Them by Michael Hyams & Liz O’Keefe 
• Chefs Eat Melts Too: A Pro’s Guide to Reinventing Your Sandwich Game by Darren Purchese (previously released as Chefs Eat Toasties Too in AU) Available for pre-order.
• 15 Minute Vegan Comfort Food: Simple & Satisfying Vegan Recipes by Katy Beskow 
• Portland Cooks: Recipes from the City’s Best Restaurants and Bars by Danielle Centoni – see my review for more details and our 
• Toronto Eats: 100 Signature Recipes from the City’s Best Restaurants by Amy Rosen read more in my review  and 
• The Okanagan Table: The Art of Everyday Home Cooking by Rod Butters 
• More with Less: Whole Food Cooking Made Irresistibly Simple by Jodi Moreno 
• Simply Vibrant: All-Day Vegetarian Recipes for Colorful Plant-Based Cooking by Anya Kassoff 
• Southern from Scratch: Pantry Essentials and Down-Home Recipes by Ashley English 
• Just Cook It!: 145 Built-to-Be-Easy Recipes That Are Totally Delicious by Justin Chapple   Don’t forget to enter our giveaway and learn more about this title in my review. 

Learn more about EYB Book Previews and let us know what you think.

Onto June’s releases:

Farmacy Kitchen Cookbook shares dishes inspired by favorite places around the world, that are not only energizing and delicious, but free of dairy, refined sugar, additives and chemicals. Discover the secrets of London’s Farmacy classics, such as Farm green soup, the signature Farmacy burger, Goji ketchup, Raw banoffee pie, Fire Starter elixir and Brain booster latte. Also featured are personal stories, advice on a healthy kitchen set-up, homemade beauty products, tips for a happy lifestyle and stunning photography. I just received this title today and it is stunning. I know, I know – I keep using that word and one would think that all these books qualifying as stunning would be inconceivable – unlke The Princess Bride – I do know what that word means. Every release is blowing my mind with gorgeous photographs, inspirational food and information about other cultures and cuisines.

Cuba: The Cookbook by Madelaine Vazquez Galvez and Imogene Tondre shares 350 home-cooking recipes in this compendium explore the country’s myriad traditions and influences – from Spanish to Soviet to Chinese – through recipes for appetizers, rice dishes, fish, meat, vegetables, egg dishes, desserts, and more. Please remember Eat Your Book members receive 30% off Phaidon titles when using the link provided.  

Gunpowder Explosive Flavours from Modern India by Harneet Baweja, Devina Seth and Nirmal Save is an exciting collection of recipes from the founders of the hugely respected restaurant of the same name. In this beautiful book, complete with stunning photography, Harneet, Devina and Nirmal have managed to capture the bustle and flavours of their childhoods in Kolkata, and the intricacy of true homestyle dishes from across India. This title is being released in the US and UK. The UK cover is to the right, the US cover can be viewed here. 


Superiority Burger Cookbook: The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious by Brooks Headley is a home-cook-friendly book on American vegetarian (and accidentally vegan) cooking, featuring over 90 dynamic recipes. Headley’s restaurant, Superiority Burger, gave the people what they never knew they wanted: a tasty, inexpensive veggie burger and a constantly changing roster of non-French fried sides. Inciting a civilized vegetable revolution, the chef and his crew rewrote the rules of non-meat cookery. This book introduces readers to vegetable cooking in a way that few vegetarian cookbooks have even attempted. The book is divided into five flavorful sections: Sandwiches, Cool Salads, Warm Vegetables, Soups and Stews, and Sweets, and reveals the recipes for some of the restaurant’s favorites.

The Kitchen Shortcut Bible by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough is for all of us who love to cook, but never seem to have enough time. Rather than a book of way-too-clever hacks, this is a collection of more than 200 ingenious recipes that supercharge your time in the kitchen without sacrificing high quality or fresh flavor.

The Bordeaux Kitchen: An Immersion into French Food and Wine, Inspired by Ancestral Traditions by Tania Teschke is a comprehensive cultural and culinary journey into the world of traditional French cuisine and French wine (adapted for paleo enthusiasts), and tips for ancestral living. Author Tania Teschke, food and wine gourmet, photographer, and lifelong student of French culture, brings you over 160 sumptuous and easy-to-follow recipes for seasonal and traditional French dishes that deliver not only the nutrition, but also the satisfaction we have been missing in our modern diet. Tania takes you on a French culinary journey to reclaim your primal connections to food and health and to each other through personal stories, striking photography and colorful tutorials.  

Fast Cakes: Easy Bakes in Minutes by Mary Berry is an unmissable, definitive new baking book from Mary Berry. Mary has incorporated her ‘all-in-one’ method of preparation into as many recipes as possible, so her recipes are faster to make than ever. Nearly 100 of the bakes take only 10 minutes to make and Mary has included small bake variations for fruit cakes, which traditionally take a long time in the oven, so you can make one even when you are pushed for time. There are scones, buns and biscuits that you can whip up for tea, traybakes and fruit loaves perfect for a school or village fete and of course foolproof cakes for every occasion from everyday recipes.

Joe Knows Fish: Taking the Intimidation Out of Cooking Seafood by Joe Gurrera, one of New York’s most-beloved fishmongers, and owner of the prestigious Citarella markets, is on a mission to show us how easy it is to cook seafood. Customers tell Joe again and again that they’re afraid to cook fish. They don’t know how to buy it or prepare it. Enter Joe Knows Fish. This book is a roadmap for novices looking to learn the basics of sourcing and cooking fish. With his easy-to-follow recipes and experience-based tips, Joe takes the intimidation out of cooking seafood.

Nadiya’s Family Favourites: Over 100 Easy Recipes for Every Kind of Day by Nadiya Hussain returns to your TV and your kitchen with her new book that accompanies her upcoming BBC TV series. Here, Nadiya shares the food she loves to cook and eat with her family and friends, offering fast, easy and delicious new recipes for every kind of day. This cookbook shows you how to create the perfect dishes to complement the moments we all love, from days out with friends to big get-togethers and lazy weekends at home, as well as simple and satisfying solutions for busy weeknights and speedy showstoppers for impromptu guests.

#Bake for SYRIA: Recipe Book by Lily Vanilli comes out in the UK and US on June 20th! Read more about this fascinating book and it’s cause on my post from April. 

Levant by Rawia Bishara offers up more than 100 recipes that represent a new modern style. These are the very best of the dishes the author has developed over the last twenty years in her New York City restaurant for the contemporary palate. Relying on a traditional pantry (including olive oil, tahini, za’atar, sumac), she applies classic flavor profiles in updated ways to dazzling effect. 

There are many other fun titles out this month and we’ll cover them all in the monthly roundup including these: