A Common Table and CrateChef Box Promotion

March 7, 2019 by
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A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures by Cynthia Chen McTernan made my best cookbooks of 2018 list and is one of our May selections in The Eat Your Books Cookbook Club.  This book is one of those sleepers that slipped in with all the major titles of Cookbooktober and because of that did not get the attention… read more

Uses for leftover egg yolks (whites too)

March 6, 2019 by
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I like to bake. A lot. Which means I use an extraordinary amount of eggs. Since my go-to cake icing is Italian meringue buttercream and since I prefer white cake to yellow, this means I'm frequently faced with a dilemma of what to do with the unused egg yolks. Luckily for me, Elazar Sontag of Serious Eats also experiences this… read more

Great news – Samin Nosrat is working on a new book

March 5, 2019 by
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EYB Members embraced Samin Nosrat's debut cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. It ranks in the top 75 cookbooks as measured by number of Bookshelves in the EYB Library, even beating Ottolenghi's recent book by a couple of places. If you count yourself as a fan of Nosrat's writing or her Netflix program, you'll be… read more

Pleesecakes – EYBD Promotion

March 5, 2019 by
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Now with EYBDigital, if you buy a print book within the promotional period, for the first time you will have access to the full EYBD cookbook wherever you can access EYB - on vacation, at work, in the grocery store, etc. In addition to the digital book, all the features of EYB will be included in the access, at no… read more

Flavors of California

March 4, 2019 by
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Flavors of California: Cooking with Tommy Bahama is the third book Rick Rodgers has written for the island lifestyle brand. Two earlier titles, Flavors of Aloha and Flavors of the Southern Coast: Cooking with Tommy Bahama proudly reside on my bookshelf. These books are my to-go for tasty island fare whether it be Hawaii, the Southern Coast or California cuisine - Rick and Tommy have… read more

These black chefs changed food history

March 4, 2019 by
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The contributions of people of color in the United States to food culture and history is often overlooked, even though many were seminal to developing our nation's foodways. Several recent books have tackled this issue, providing us with better insight on undervalued and underreported work, and last week The New York Times profiled six black chefs - and one black… read more

Italian mayor spouts off on spaghetti bolognese

March 3, 2019 by
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Millions of people around the world have tucked into a hearty dish of spaghetti bolognese over the years. But according to the mayor of Bologna, Italy, the dish that bears the name of his city has nothing to do with the dish. Not only does he disavow spaghetti bolognese, he's recently started an online campaign to raise awareness of the… read more

Nancy Silverton to offer baking classes and more

March 2, 2019 by
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If you live in Southern California (or want to plan a culinary vacation there), you now have an option to learn making from a legend. Los Angeles chef Nancy Silverton will offering classes and more as a culinary ambassador at the new Farmhouse food and event space at the Ojai Valley Inn in Ventura County.  In addition to the classes, Silverton plans… read more

Featured Cookbooks, Recipes, & the Latest EYBD Books & Previews

March 2, 2019 by
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EYB wants to make your cooking life easier. Our main focus has always been indexing cookbooks and magazines so you can efficiently search your own collection instead of paging through individual indexes. We also aim to keep members up to date on the best new titles being published. Our new EYBDigital platform allows us to provide  EYBDigital Previews  (sample pages from cookbooks) and EYBDigital… read more

How much story do you want with that recipe?

March 1, 2019 by
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We've all been there: after finding the perfect online recipe in the EYB Library, we click through to the website only to be confronted with what seems like a novel preceding the recipe. We scroll, scroll, and scroll further until we finally reach paydirt. When you are in a hurry this can be a minor inconvenience, but apparently some people… read more
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