The last two weeks: Lunar New Year recipes; Spring cookbook preview; and more

Last month, Darcie shared Get ready to celebrate the year of the tiger with a link to 35 Lunar New Year foods at Epicurious (see our article about the paywall). I was still able to access 3 recipes on their site before the paywall information came up. (People are able to access 3 recipes a month for free).

Many of the foods eaten by Chinese families over Lunar New Year have special significance, believed to bring luck, prosperity and good fortune for the year ahead. Favorites including dumplings (the more dumplings eaten, the more money will follow in the new year), noodles (longevity noodles for long life) and spring rolls (wealth and prosperity).

We have nearly 4,000 online links to Asian noodle recipes; 237 online links to spring rolls; and 732 online links for dumplings or potstickers (these links do not include Epicurious but other paywalls may be connected to some of these recipes) and a total of 5,646 online recipes to Asian recipes.

I received an ingredient bundle from my friend at Hardcover Cook to create Betty Liu’s sticky rice balls and plan to make them this weekend. There are 9 online recipes from Betty’s book My Shanghai you may try now.

Chinese Soul Food and Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food by Hsiao-Ching Chou are both great books to introduce a cook to Chinese cooking (22 of the author’s recipes are available online). Both books will be coming out in paperback versions on March 22nd and we will link these to the master titles on that date. So if you missed picking up the books when they were published the first time around, now is the time.

Hsiao-Ching is the chair on the James Beard Book Awards Committee of which I am honored to be a member and it has been great fun getting to work with her more closely. On the James Beard front, I was able to pull Darcie in as a judge this year so we both (and Jane) will be going to the awards ceremony in June.

Lastly, Mooncakes and Milk Bread (back in stock at most booksellers and HCC has a great bundle which will be available soon), Jason Licker‘s titles and Modern Asian Baking at Home (Jun 28th, 2022 – preview) are just a few of the Asian baking related titles that are favorites. We have a number of Asian baking titles in our EYB Library.

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The last two weeks at Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Save on an e-book bundle and support a charity
• Epicurious installs a paywall
• Which food phrases or words would you like to see gone?
• Building a barbecue trail
• What’s your cooking phobia?
• Celebrate Burns Night with these foods

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one. Darcie can be followed on Instagram at darcie_bakes.

Jane compiled her annual The best selling books of 2021. In case you missed the bookseller’s favorite books of 2021 and Best of the Best of 2021 posts, we have linked those for you.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

• Spring 2022 Cookbook Preview
• Valentine’s Gift Guide for the Cookbook Lover & Giveaway (worldwide)
• One: Pot, Pan, Planet by Anna Jones – Cookbook Giveaway (US/worldwide)
• Top fifty 2021 books added to EYB Members Bookshelves
• Buried treasure: cookbooks lost at sea
• January 2022 New Cookbook Review
• January 2022 EYB Cookbook Club Summary
• February 2022 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary – updated with Hardcover Cook’s Spring & Summer box information as well as other clubs’ options.
• Cookbook deals is frequently updated so check that post often for new sales (the ICYMI post explains the post in detail) – please note the addition of LeCreuset specials.
• Looking forward to 2022 cookbooks (updated with more exciting titles!)

Please be sure to check our Calendar for updated events. My Instagram is thecookbookjunkies.

Jenny and the EYB Team

Recently Indexed Titles

Our team of member and pro indexers are working hard indexing titles, both new and old. Below are just a few highlights. A reminder: newly indexed titles will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf so you will always know which titles have just been indexed. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

• Dirty Vegan: Proper Banging Vegan Food by Mathew Pritchard
• The Fireside Cook Book by James Beard (a whooping 896 recipes!)
• Rachel Ama’s Vegan Eats: Tasty Plant-Based Recipes for Every Day by Rachel Ama
• Mabu Mabu: An Australian Kitchen Cookbook: Help Yourself by Nornie Bero Five EYBD Recipes to try now.
• The Provençal Cookbook: Shop, Cook, and Eat Like a Local by Gui Gedda and Marie-Pierre Moine
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
• Crazy for Cookies, Brownies, and Bars: Super-Fast, Made-from-Scratch Sweets, Treats, and Desserts by Dorothy Kern Six EYBD Recipes to try now.
• The Fondue Cookbook by Gina Steer
• Bocuse’s Regional French Cooking by Paul Bocuse
• You are What You Eat Cookbook: Over 150 Healthy and Delicious Recipes and You Are What You Eat: The Plan that Will Change Your Life by Gillian McKeith
• Brave New Meal: Fresh as F*ck Food for Every Table: A Vegan Cookbook by Bad Manners
• The Gluten-Free Cookbook by Cristian Broglia
• Mrs. Fields Best Ever Cookie Book!: 200 Delicious Cookie and Dessert Recipes by Debbi Fields
• It Takes a Village: A Guide to Matakana by Lauraine Jacobs Two EYBD Recipes to try now.
• Simple Cooking by John Thorne
• The Slim Palate Paleo Cookbook by Joshua Weissman
• The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Tenth Anniversary Edition: The Recipes of Record by Amanda Hesser
• Mediterranean Cookbook: Fresh, fast and easy recipes by Marie-Pierre Moine
• The Complete Baking Book for Young Chefs by America’s Test Kitchen Six EYBD Recipes to try now.
• My Way of Cooking (Thermomix)

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Member Photo of the Week

 Black sesame soufflé cheesecake from Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries (page 153) by Kristina Cho submitted by member Astrid5555

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Featured Online Recipe

Chiang Mai chicken curry noodles (Khao soi gai) from I Heart Umami by ChihYu Smith

ChihYu Smith is the author of Asian Paleo (2019)

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,248th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

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

• 6 recipes from Half Baked Harvest: Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals by Tieghan Gerard Pub date Mar 29, 2022
• A selection of pages and 5 recipes from The Dusty Knuckle: Seriously Good Bread, Knockout Sandwiches and Everything In Between by Max Tobias, Rebecca Oliver and Daisy Terry Pub date Apr 14, 2022
• A selection of pages and 5 recipes from Milk Street: The World in a Skillet by Christopher Kimball Pub date Apr 26, 2022
• A selection of pages and 6 recipes from Kin Thai: Modern Thai Recipes to Cook at Home by John Chantarasak Pub date May 26, 2022

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Cookbook Giveaways
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• Enter our US giveaway to win a copy of Upper Crust: Homemade Bread the French Way by Marie-Laure Frechet along with an Emile Henry Epi bread baker. Contest expires Feb 15th, 2022.
• Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Your Home Izakaya: Fun and Simple Recipes Inspired by the Drinking-and-Dining Dens of Japan by Tim Anderson. One US winner will receive the book and a Zojirushi Pressure Induction Heating Rice Cooker & Warmer NP-NWC10/18. Contest expires Feb 18th, 2022.

The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways including those open worldwide and to other regions.

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