This week at Eat Your Books

While still feeling the effects of last month’s landslide of cookbooks, October is sizing up to be quite possibly the largest month of releases to date. Our indexers are cranking out books as quickly as possible while we prepare EYBDigital Previews and reviews.

This week, Darcie shared a guide to squash, chocolate chip cookie perfection, and an article on a new cookbook Recipes of My 15 Grandmothers: Unique Recipes and Stories from the Times of the Crypto-Jews during the Spanish Inquisition. Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday.

I prepared a recap of Roaring 20’s Week on The Great British Bake Off. This season is on its way to becoming my least favorite to date. I am hopeful for a return of the charm that will guide me back to the light of the white tent. Gift guides are being prepared for publication next month. Our best books lists are gearing up and I am thinking ahead to 2020 cookbooks! How did 2019 go by so quickly? (Best books of 2019, so far.)

Please be sure to look through all the great events shared on our calendar which I recently updated.


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Member Photo of the Week


Grapefruit, tomato and mint salad, with a pomegranate molasses dressing Citrus: Recipes That Celebrate the Sour and the Sweet by Catherine Phipps submitted by member MarietNL

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Featured Online Recipe


Curried squash tartlet with apple and chicory salad from Great British Chefs – Chef Recipes


EYBDigital Previews


Recently we uploaded our 520th EYBDigital Preview and shared some insight into members’ questions regarding same. A selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.  Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

(Note: Some members have been asking why they cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to their Bookshelf. Please read this Help page for an explanation.)


3 recipes from The Little Women Cookbook: Tempting Recipes from the March Sisters and Their Friends and Family by Wini Moranville and Louisa May Alcott – published 10/1/2019


3 recipes from Leaf: Lettuce, Greens, Herbs, Weeds: 120 Recipes That Celebrate Varied, Versatile Leaves by Catherine Phipps – published in the UK on 10/3/2019; US pub date 10/15/2019


3 recipes from Scandi Bites: 60 Recipes for Sweet Treats, Party Food and Other Little Scandinavian Snacks by Trine Hahnemann – pub date 10/15/2019


3 recipes from Houston Cooks: Recipes from the City’s Favorite Restaurants and Chefs by Francine Spiering – pub date 10/15/2019


Cookbooks with Giveaways

Each of these featured titles below has a current giveaway. Click on the bold blue link for more information on how to enter.


Three copies of Fried Rice by Danielle Centoni are offered to EYB Members in the US and EYB is offering one copy worldwide in our giveaway. This contest expires on October 16, 2019.


Enter our worldwide giveaway to win this gorgeous piece of Ruffoni cookware! This contest expires on October 20th, 2019.


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  • annie1000  on  October 4, 2019

    Natalie Dupree! What great happiness for this new member to find her cookbook here. I have rarely seen her books in bookstores in the last several years and she is a Southerner’s treasured cook. I watched her on TV 30 years ago faithfully until I could not find her shows anymore. Her gorgeous “big” hair, beautiful looks, and megawatt smile were great–but her food was all those things too, and more. She welcomed everyone into her kitchen when Paula Dern and Martha Stewart weren’t on Food Network yet. I was young and newly baking and cooking, and Miss Dupree really started it all for me, gave me confidence in the kitchen, and in life. I look forward to digging into these cookbooks, sure, but the standout for fall Cookbook-tober for me is Nathalie Dupree. Thanks for making my month!!

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