The last two weeks: Open call for James Beard entries, who is Linda Skeens, cookbook news, recipes and more

The entry period has begun for James Beard submissions. Please see this post for more detailed information. If you are an author or publisher and have any questions about this process, please email me at jenny@eatyourbooks.com.

Who is Linda Skeens? In June the memes were flying all over social media regarding the prize winning champion of the Virginia State Fair. She won first, second and third place for best cookies. She also swept all three awards for candy and for savory bread. In fact, she won the blue ribbon for cake, pie, brownie, sweet bread and best overall baked good (that was strawberry fudge.) And there is more. She also won for canned tomatoes, canned corn, pickled peppers, sauerkraut, relish, spaghetti sauce and both jelly and jam. Then she took top honors in quilt embroidery. And after the Virginia Kentucky District Fair posted the dominating results to Facebook in June, she went viral. If she entered a contest, she won.

In 2023, we will find out what all the hullabaloo is about. Her book Linda Skeens Blue Ribbon Kitchen Cookbook will be available one year from the time that she went viral. You can pre-order the title on Linda’s website.

About a year ago, we shared the news about Sharon Wee’s Growing Up in a Nonya Kitchen: Singapore Recipes from My Mother 2012 cookbook being plaguerized. The good news is that Wee’s book is now back in print and can be ordered. Click our BUY BOOK button or call your local bookstore to have them order you a copy. I just received it today and it is lovely.

For the first time in nearly three years, Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks is hosting an event at her iconic New York City store. On October 15th from 1:30 to 3:30 pm EST, Yvette Zuniga Jemison will be signing copies of her new book My South Texas Kitchen: Traditional Recipes and Modern Tips. Yvette has additional events planned. You may click on the Book Record for more information.

Lastly, coming October 12th Antoni Porowski, cookbook author and star of “Queer Eye”, will host a food contest on Netflix for adult amateurs inspired by an iconic children’s toy: Easy-Bake Battle: The Home Cooking Competition. Our friend Kat Kinsman will be co-hosting an episode in December! Check out the trailer here. My only thought is how long will these episodes be if everything is baked with a light-bulb powered oven?


The last two weeks on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

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, Darcie & Jenny’s GBBO recaps were published for Weeks 2 and 3:

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

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 highlighted titles. 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.


Member Photo of the Week

Pak choy with fresh shiitake (Xiang gu xiao bai cai) and Braised trout in chilli bean sauce (Dou ban yu)  from Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop submitted by member CheesyKranskyLove

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Featured Online Recipe

Peaches & cream cake (Karpatka) from Kitchen Projects by Nicola Lamb


EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,420th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

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Cookbook Giveaways
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  • Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Green Kitchen: Quick + Slow: 100 Joyful Vegetarian Recipes by Luise Vindahl and David Frenkiel. Contest expires October 10th, 2022.
  • Enter our US/CA giveaway to win one of three copies of Persiana Everyday by Sabrina Ghayour. Contest expires October 12th, 2022.

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