A preview of Amy Thielen’s Company, EYBD Previews, Recipes and More

Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others gets an award for causing me the most anxiety. It was first to be released in the fall/autumn of 2022, then it was moved to the Spring of 2023 and finally given an August 29th, 2023 date of release.

Amy Thielen has become a friend since her TV show and first cookbook The New Midwestern Table: 200 Heartland Recipes. I have cooked more recipes from Midwestern Table than any other book. She is down-to-earth, mega talented and an all-around good person – and she writes fantastic recipes and narrative.

Company is the next best thing to having Amy in your kitchen as you cook for friends and family. Often times, we stress about entertaining – will the food be good (and hot) for our guests, will I make enough, will our guests have a good time, and did I wrangle all the dust bunnies from the house? Amy writes, “no one will ever care about the food as much as you and I do.” To which I will add, no one will care about the errant dust bunny rolling around like a tumbleweed in a black and white Western. Most people care about spending time with the hosts and happy that someone has prepared food for them.

For those of us who worry about menu planning and delicious food (hello most of us on EYB) – Amy has written a beautiful guide to ease our worries and provides us with 125 well-tested, no fail recipes – arranged in menu form. From small dinner parties to larger holiday feasts that serve up to twenty (and even a section on holiday baking!), everything is laid out for the cook whether said cook be a novice or experienced player in the kitchen. Packed with stunning photography, Company encourages us to return to the joy of cooking for family and friends without all the fuss and muss.

Every single recipe looks spectacular – from Spiralized roast potatoes, Crab legs with spicy black vinegar dipping sauce to Slow-smoked brisket pastrami with creamy zhug. One recipe Eric Kim adapted for the New York Times is available to try – Crispy smashed chicken breasts with gin-and-sage jus.

Thursday I made the famous chicken referenced above and the Funhouse potatoes. Absolutely delicious – that gin jus is the bomb! The potatoes I removed from the oven a little early to get a photo before it became too dark – but I placed them back into the oven and twenty minutes later they were so crispy on the outside and soft and buttery on the inside. I made five pounds of the potatoes and I ate three small pieces – my husband and son ate almost all the rest and we have one piece of chicken left. One thing I did not do was add the onion to the potatoes – as my husband is not a fan of onions.

Mark my words, Company will be an award winning title just as Midwestern was – you heard it here first. Amy will be on tour for Company (with more dates added soon) – go see her and buy the book – you will not be sorry.

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The last few weeks on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Mourning the loss of Canadian culinary icon Rose Murray
• Brouhaha over burrata
• Comfort food is great, but have you tried comforting food?
• Have your cake and read it too
• Will the Instant Pot end up in the graveyard of kitchen fads?
• The sweet side of MSG
• Books that celebrate bean cuisine
• Will the Le Creuset factory sale live up to the hype?
• The latest TikTok food fad isn’t cool, it’s cold
• No Famous Chocolate Wafers? No problem.
• Some (in the UK) like it hot

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:

• Time & Tide Cookbook Giveaway (US/UK/AU/NZ)
• Linda Skeens Blue Ribbon Kitchen – Cookbook Giveaway (US)
• Rice Table Cookbook Giveaway (US/UK/AU/NZ)
• Kung Pao & Beyond Cookbook Giveaway (US/UK/AU/NZ)
• July 2023 EYB Cookbook Club Summary
• July 2023 New Cookbook Review
• August 2023 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary – Updated
• 2023 Cookbook Preview Listing – (updated)
• Cookbook deals are updated when time permits so check that post for new sales – the publisher links automatically update -the ICYMI post explains the post in detail.
• Calendar – check for updates

My Instagram is thecookbookjunkies.

Jenny and the EYB Team

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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 that were recently indexed. Remember to view the most current indexed titles – they will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

• Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis
• Sophie Conran’s Pies by Sophie Conran
• The New Cooks’ Catalogue by Florence Fabricant, Burt Wolf, Burton Wolf and Emily Aronson
• Too Many Chiefs, Only One Indian by Sat Bains ckbk
• Salad Seasons: Vegetable-Forward Dishes All Year by Sheela Prakash
• Everyday Cook: Vibrant Recipes, Simple Methods, Delicious Dishes by Donal Skehan
• Feed These People: Slam-Dunk Recipes for Your Crew by Jen Hatmaker
• The Milk Street Cookbook: The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking, Featuring Every Recipe from Every Episode of the TV Show, 2017-2023 by Christopher Kimball
• The Chilango Burrito Bible: Mind Blowing Mexican Flavours by Eric Partaker
• The Pepperpot Diaries: Stories from my Caribbean Table by Andi Oliver
• Still We Rise: A Love Letter to the Southern Biscuit with Over 70 Sweet and Savory Recipes by Erika Council
• Fever-Tree Easy Mixing: More than 150 Quick and Delicious Mixed Drinks and Cocktails by Fevertree
• Ray Lampe’s Big Green Egg Cookbook: Grill, Smoke, Bake & Roast by Ray Lampe
• One Dish Fish: 70 Quick and Simple Recipes to Cook in the Oven by Lola Milne

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Member Photo of the Week

Oven-roasted Southern “shrimp boil” from Go-To Dinners (page 149) by Ina Garten submitted by member anya_sf

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Featured Online Recipe

Potato, shallot and bean salad with mint pesto dressing from Diana Henry at The Sunday Telegraph by Diana Henry.

Add Diana Henry at The Sunday Telegraph to your Bookshelf for an additional 1,883 recipes.

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Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

Peanut butter cake from The Thrifty Baker: Shop, Bake & Eat on a Budget by Hermine Dossou. Pub date September 12th, 2023. Hermine was a semi-finalist in the 2020 series of The Great British Bake Off.

We currently have 6,748 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,645th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: All Preview recipes are indexed, whether the full book is indexed or not. Any Preview recipe can be added to your Bookshelf.

• 4 recipes from The World Central Kitchen Cookbook: Feeding Humanity, Feeding Hope by José Andrés* and World Central Kitchen – Pub date September 12th, 2023.
• 7 recipes from Ramen Forever: Recipes for Ramen Success by Tim Anderson – Pub Date September 28th, 2023.
• 6 recipes from More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen by Molly Baz – Pub date October 10th, 2023.
• 4 recipes from My Everyday Lagos Kitchen: Nigerian Cooking at Home and in the Diaspora by Yewande Komolafe – Pub date October 24th, 2023.

*Exciting news José Andrés has Zaytinya: Delicious Mediterranean Dishes from Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon coming in March of 2024. “A vibrant celebration of the shared flavors and traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the star chef whose curiosity and creativity built his restaurant Zaytinya into an overnight, decades-long sensation.”

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Cookbook Giveaways
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• Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Tandoori Home Cooking: Over 70 Classic Indian Tandoori Recipes to Cook at Home by Maunika Gowardhan. Contest expires August 12th, 2023.
• Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Vietnamese Vegetarian: Simple Vegetarian Recipes From a Vietnamese Home Kitchen by Uyen Luu. Contest expires August 12th, 2023.

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

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