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Talented cookie artists attract huge numbers of followers on Instagram and Facebook with amazing, intricate detail on their edible masterpieces. If you love seeing these creations and also like a good history lesson, then you will love Jasmine Cho. She uses the medium of intricate, hand-drawn cookie portraits of Asian American figures as a way to increase representation and raise awareness of Asian American history and identity. You can follow Cho on Instagram.

Searching for a gift for a book lover who likes to cook? Check out Book Blends: Spices for Book Lovers. The blends have titles that are wordplays on books, like Dried and Prejudice, The Joy Luck Rub, and The Salt in Our Stars. You can mix and match the blends, which come in boxes of 3, 4, 5 or 6 bottles.

If you live in the U.S. and love French and German wines, Italian and Swiss cheeses, cherries and peaches, salami and other meats, and Spanish olive oil, brace yourselves for higher prices. Tariffs are set to hit these products as part of the ongoing trade war between the US and the EU. The tariff of 25% is set to go into effect on October 18.

Have you ever started cooking or baking something only to discover that you didn’t have the parchment the recipe requires? You may have wondered if you could just substitute wax paper. Wonder no more – Southern Living breaks it down for us, and tells when we can and can’t substitute wax paper for parchment.

Many EYB Members probably have a handful of lemons in a bowl on the counter or in their refrigerator drawers. If you don’t use the lemons quickly enough, they start to get quite shriveled and dry. Avoid this fate by heading over to Australian Gourmet Traveller – they have 22 recipes to use all those lemons.

Photo of Lemon-buttermilk tart from Australian Gourmet Traveller Magazine