This week: New cookbooks from Ina Garten and Yotam Ottolenghi; other must have 2022 titles; recipes; previews and giveaways

The prolific Ina Garten has a new cookbook slated for an Oct 25th release. In Go-To Dinners Ina shares her strategies for making satisfying and uncomplicated dinners. These recipes include those you can make ahead and throw in the oven right before dinner; light dinners that can be prepped ahead and assembled at the last minute; go-to family meals that can feed a crowd with very little effort and one of my favorites, “breakfast for dinner”. Ina also includes a “Two-Fers” guide on turning leftovers from one dinner into something different and delicious the second night.

The second test kitchen installment, Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi and Noor Murad, will be released in September in the UK. As usual, North American editions will likely be available in October but those titles are not yet listed. The super-chef and team are back with flexible, flavour-packed dishes that all lend a little something to the next meal. Extra Good Things is rounded off with a chapter on the ‘one basics’ of desserts for us to perfect and then adapt with our favourite flavour combinations, such as ‘one basic mousse’ transformed into coffee mousse with tahini fudge. This is playing it forward, Ottolenghi style, filling your cupboards with adaptable homemade ingredients to add some oomph to every mealtime.

A few other titles that I have added recently to my 2022 preview post include: Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors by Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation; Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations by Nicole A. Taylor; Expressions: Art in Pastry by Julie Jones (look at that cover!); Real Life Recipes by Tom Kerridge; Maggie Beer’s Autumn Harvest Recipes and Maggie Beer’s Summer Harvest Recipes are being reissued; Yum! by Nadia Lim; Yawd: Modern Afro-Caribbean Recipes by Adrian Forte; and More Mandy’s: More Recipes We Love by Rebecca and Amanda Wolfe.

The love of cookbooks is a double-edged sword. I am humming with anticipation for the great new titles headed our way and at the same time nervous about the amount of space that will be needed to house these treasures. Perhaps it is time to build an Ina barn but I’ll need a bigger cookbook library than Ina’s for sure.

Lastly, in case you missed it, this week Food & Wine Magazine did a fantastic write up on Eat Your Books and chose us as one of their 2022 Picks.

The last week on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Doing it for the ‘gram
• Chowhound shuttering after 25 years
• The science behind sour

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.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

• The Cake Book – Cookbook Giveaway (worldwide)
• Bread Ahead Cookbook Giveaway (US/UK/NZ/AU)
• Gift Guide for Mother’s Day (UK edition)
• April 2022 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
• Spring 2022 Cookbook Preview
• Cookbook deals is frequently updated so check that post often for new sales including our updated Australian section (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 including events for Eric Kim, Erin Gleeson as well as new dates added to our cooking schools and bookstores.

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.

• Arzak Secrets by Juan Mari Arzak
• The Forest Feast Road Trip: Simple Vegetarian Recipes Inspired by My Travels through California by Erin Gleeson
• The New Charcuterie Cookbook: Exceptional Cured Meats to Make and Serve at Home by Jamie Bissonnette
• Fast & Festive Meals for the Jewish Holidays: Complete Menus, Rituals, and Party-Planning Ideas for Every Holiday of the Year by Marlene Sorosky
• The Cajun Vegan Cookbook: A Modern Guide to Classic Cajun Cooking and Southern-Inspired Cuisine by Krimsey Lilleth
• Istria: Recipes and Stories From the Hidden Heart of Italy, Slovenia and Croatia by Paola Bacchia
• Charcoal: New Ways to Cook with Fire by Josiah Citrin and JoAnn Cianciulli

Member Photo of the Week

Grilled octopus sabich from Berber&Q (page 132) by Josh Katz submitted by member Cascabel

Josh Katz’ next book will be released in May: Berber&Q: On Vegetables

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Featured Online Recipe

Banana cream pie from Smitten Kitchen by Deb Perelman

Deb Perelman’s next title will be published in November: Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files

Add the Smitten Kitchen blog to your bookshelf for an additional 1,316 recipes.

EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,296th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

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• A selection of pages and 4 full recipes from Seared: The Ultimate Guide to Barbecuing Meat by Genevieve Taylor – Pub date Apr 28th, 2022
• A selection of pages and 4 recipes from Paon: Real Balinese Cooking by Tjok Maya Kerthyasa and I Wayan Kresna Yasa – Pub date May 4th, 2022
• A selection of pages and 10 recipes from Live Fire: Seasonal Barbecue Recipes and Stories of Barbecue Traditions, Old and New by Helen Graves – Pub date May 5th, 2022
• A selection of pages and 6 recipes from Oishisou!! The Ultimate Anime Dessert Cookbook: Over 60 Recipes for Anime-Inspired Sweets & Treats by Hadley Sui – Pub date Jun 14th, 2022

Cookbook Giveaways
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• Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of two copies of The Steger Homestead Kitchen: Simple Recipes for an Abundant Life by Will and Rita Mae Steger with Beth Dooley. Contest expires Apr 7th, 2022.
• Enter our US giveaway to win one of three copies of Food IQ: 100 Questions, Answers, and Recipes to Raise Your Cooking Smarts by Daniel Holzman and Matt Rodbard. Contest expires Apr 10th, 2022.

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

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