This week: The best roast chicken recipe; 70,000 cookbook recipes available online and more!

What do you think of when you hear Sunday supper? For me, roast chicken ranks high for our family as a meal that we all enjoy. The beauty of this meal is that it is relatively simple to master. My son could eat chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes and popovers every single day. Throw in my simple leftover bread dressing and he’s in heaven.

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My favorite chicken recipe is Zuni roast chicken with bread salad. Even when I don’t follow the full Judy Rodgers’ recipe, I love roasting the bird on thick slices of sourdough bread. After removing the chicken and draining the juices into a saucepan to make a sauce, I put the pan with the fat-soaked bread under the broiler for a few minutes to crisp up. Our family fights over that bread! And almost every time I make chicken my go-to sauce is my friend Kim Foster’s The best roast chicken with garlic and herb pan sauce. The first photo below is my chorizo rubbed chicken and the second simply made with herbs and citrus. After a meal of roast chicken, there is always stock simmering the next day and soon after either soup or another family favorite – chicken pot pie.

Our EYB library shares almost 1,700 online recipes for “roast chicken” and there are over 16,000 recipes in cookbooks for the same. A few of our members’ favorite cookbooks on this subject include:

• A Bird in the Hand: Chicken Recipes for Every Day and Every Mood by Diana Henry
• Roast Chicken and Other Stories by Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham
• A Bird in the Oven and Then Some: 20 Ways to Roast the Perfect Chicken plus 80 Delectable Recipes by Mindy Fox

Coming in October, this title caught my attention: The Whole Chicken: 100 Easy But Innovative Ways to Cook From Beak to Tail by Carl Clarke.

What are some of your favorite chicken recipes or do you have a favorite cookbook that features poultry?

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Since our last roundup, Darcie has written articles that include an EYB milestone we now have surpassed 70,000 cookbook recipes that are available online, the breakdown of the 2020 finalists for the IACP Cuisinart Awards, cooking under quarantine conditions, and Bon Appetit’s ten-week program geared toward improving our baking skills. Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday (#foodnews brings up these information-packed posts).

This week, I shared my thoughts on recipe writing in Order up: one recipe, hold the narrative and several giveaways on the following cookbooks: Rachael Ray’s 50 cookbook along with a set of her Create Delicious cookware, Salt & Time, and Provence. I’ve also been working on our February new cookbook review, judging cookbooks for James Beard, and keeping our 2020 preview post updated as well as our calendar (many events added this week).

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Member Photo of the Week Upside-down blood orange cake from A Good Appetite at The New York Times by Melissa Clark. Photo submitted by member ashallen

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Featured Online Recipe

Greek baked chicken from Countdown (New Zealand supermarket)

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 620th EYBDigital Preview and shared some insight into members’ questions. A selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.  Learn more about EYBDigital Previews. Note: For an explanation of why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

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• 3 recipes from Posh Tarts: Over 70 Recipes, from Gorgeous Galettes to Perfect Pastries by Phillippa Spence (Published 6/2019 in the UK; US pub date 4/7/2020)
• 3 recipes from Aran: Recipes and Stories from a Bakery in the Heart of Scotland by Flora Shedden (Published 10/2019 UK; US pub date 4/7/2020)
• 3 recipes from The Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska: A Cookbook with 50 Recipes by Emma Teal Laukitis and Claire Neaton (Pub date 4/7/2020)
• 3 recipes from The Outdoor Kitchen: Live-Fire Cooking from the Grill by Eric Werner and Nils Bernstein (Pub date 3/24/2020) – the follow-up to the beautiful Hartwood cookbook
• 3 recipes from The Baja California Cookbook by David Castro Hussong and Jay Porter (Pub date 3/17/2020)
• 3 recipes from Everyday Bakes to Showstopper Cakes by Mich Turner (Pub date 3/3/2020)

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Cookbook Giveaways
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• Enter our US/UK giveaway to win a copy of Dishoom: From Bombay with Love: Cookery Book and Highly Subjective Guide to Bombay with Map by Shamil and Kavi Thakrar and Naved Nasir Expires March 12, 2020
• Enter our US giveaway to win a set of Proclamation Goods Stainless & Stainless Duo cookware. Expires March 16, 2020
• Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win a copy of Keeping It Simple: Easy Weeknight One-Pot Recipes by Yasmin Fahr Expires March 18, 2020

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