The last two weeks: Global dessert cookbooks, EYBD Previews, giveaways, best books of 2020 and more

How the rest of the world “desserts” is totally fascinating to me. You can bet your last dollar if there is a dessert book for a certain ethnicity I have it or I am on my way to finding it because I have a cookbook addiction which is even worse when it comes to baking titles.

As I was strolling through Facebook last week, a friend shared photographs of her holiday baking which included traditional Croatian treats. My mother’s side of the family has Croatian ties and I started researching any baking books focusing on Croatia’s desserts. I came across an article entitled: Croatian desserts: 13 sweets the world should know about by Andrea Pisac which led to her cookbook Croatian Desserts: 50 Authentic Recipes To Make At Home and I ordered it immediately and I am enjoying it immensely. I am also in the process of checking out Andrea’s blog recipes now.

I love to discover new desserts by utilizing the search filters in the EYB Library. For instance, searching “online recipes” and “desserts” renders nearly 27,000 recipes. I can then scale that number down by ethnicity. For instance choosing Australasia & Pacific brings the number of recipes down to 149.

In my collection I have titles that include (but are certainly not limited to):

• The Way of Kueh: Savouring & Saving Singapore’s Heritage Desserts
• Kyotofu: Uniquely Delicious Japanese Desserts
• The Italian Baker (other Italian titles)
• Windmills in My Oven: Dutch Baking
• ScandiKitchen Fika and Hygge: Comforting Cakes and Bakes from Scandinavia with Love
• The Art of French Pastry (other French titles)
• Bakeland: Nordic Treats Inspired by Nature (other Scandi titles)
• Jason Licker‘s Asian inspired pastry books
• Classic German Baking
• Dulce de Leche: Recipes, Stories, & Sweet Traditions
• Greek Pastries and Desserts
• How to Cook Philippine Desserts: Cakes and Snacks
• Milk & Cardamom: Spectacular Cakes, Custards and More, Inspired by the Flavors of India
• The Cardamom Trail: Chetna Bakes with Flavours of the East
• SUQAR: Desserts & Sweets from the Modern Middle East
• Sesame & Spice: Baking from the East End to the Middle East
• Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence
• The European Cake Cookbook
• Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague
• Baking at the 20th Century Cafe (review and giveaway)
• Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries (Pub date 9/2021)

What are your favorite cookbooks devoted to world baking? Did you share any of your family’s cultural desserts this past holiday?

The last weeks on the blog

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written articles entitled:

• Food in fiction
• The bucatini shortage of 2020
• Best selling foods of 2020
• The food trends of 2020 that helped us cope
• Crafting a smaller holiday dinner
• Counting down the top foods of 2020
• More gingerbread house eye candy

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one.

Over the last few week, I’ve shared:

• December 2020 New Cookbook Review
• December 2020 Eat Your Books Cookbook Club Summary

Giveaways have been posted for 

• A Good Bake – Cookbook Giveaway
• Red Sands by Caroline Eden Cookbook Giveaway
• Mastering Bread and Shun bread knife

Other articles of interest:

• Best of the Best of 2020
• The best cookbooks of 2020 by the experts
• January 2021 Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup (updated with Tasting Table’s and Salt & Spine’s selections)
• The Kindle cookbook deals and 2021 cookbook preview are being updated frequently.
• Ideas on how EYB can work better for you

Jenny and the EYB Team

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Featured Recently Indexed Titles

• Clodagh’s Weeknight Kitchen: Easy & Exciting Dishes to Liven Up Your Recipe Repertoire by Clodagh McKenna
• Kid in the Kitchen: 100 Recipes and Tips for Young Home Cooks by Melissa Clark
• The Pie Academy: Master the Perfect Crust and 255 Amazing Fillings, with Fruits, Nuts, Creams, Custards, Ice Cream, and More; Expert Techniques for Making Fabulous Pies from Scratch by Ken Haedrich
• Africola: Slow Food Fast Words Cult Chef by Duncan Welgemoed
• Mastering Bread: The Art and Practice of Handmade Sourdough, Yeast Bread, and Pastry by Marc Vetri, Claire Kopp McWilliams and David Joachim
• Trejo’s Tacos: Recipes and Stories from L.A.: A Cookbook by Danny Trejo
• The Phoenicia Diner Cookbook: Dishes and Dispatches from the Catskill Mountains by Mike Cioffi, Chris Bradley and Sara B. Franklin
• The Milk Street Cookbook: The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking, Including Every Recipe from Every Episode of the TV Show, 2017-2020
• Il Buco: Stories and Recipes by Donna Lennard and Joshua David Stein
• Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential by Haile Thomas
• Use It All: The Cornersmith Guide to Your Sustainable Home Kitchen by Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards
• Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen by MiMi Aye

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Member Photo from the Last Two Weeks

Basic Parmesan biscuits from Christmas: Feasts and Treats by Donna Hay submitted by member MarietNL

Slow-cooked pork with ginger, chilli and sweet soy sauce (Babi kecap) from Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey: 150 New Recipes Evoking the Flavours of the Far East by Rick Stein submitted by member Ro_

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Featured Online Recipes from the Last Two Weeks

Slow-cooked beef with porcini mushrooms and chestnuts from Diana Henry at The Sunday Telegraph by Diana Henry

The chocolate chip cookie Domingo cake from Real Baking with Rose Levy Beranbaum by Rose Levy Beranbaum

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 859th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: To learn why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• 3 recipes from Easy Beans: Simple, Satisfying Recipes That Are Good for You, Your Wallet, and the Planet from Jackie Freeman
• 3 recipes from Punch: Drinks To Make Friends With by Shaun Byrne and Nick Tesar
• 3 recipes from Even Better Brownies: 50 Standout Bar Recipes for Every Occasion by Mike Johnson
• 3 recipes from Vegan Recipes From Japan by Malte Härtig

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Cookbook Giveaways
Click on the Bold Blue Link Below to Enter

• Enter our US/CA giveaway to win a copy of Dinner, Uncomplicated: Fixing a Delicious Meal Every Night of the Week by Claire Tansey – expires January 9th, 2021
• Enter our US giveaway to win one copy of Tailgreat: How to Crush It at Tailgating by John Currence – expires January 16th, 2021

*Publishers thank us for our continued patience while awaiting the arrival of prizes as warehouses are not operating at full capacity yet and it appears things will only get slower as the winter season takes hold. The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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