Taste Canada Awards long list; UK Guild of Food Writer’s short list, new blogs indexed and more

Mark your calendars – the new season of The Great American Baking Show begins airing on Roku on May 24th. Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith both return as judges with Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry returning as hosts.

While we are thinking baking, I want to tell our Members more about Sift: The Elements of Great Baking by Nicola Lambs. In Sunday’s Food News post, Darcie shared that the Happy Foodie (the culinary website of Penguin Books UK) announced a new baking series from Nicola called Baking Basics. The first article covers how to make the perfect Victoria sponge and the second how to make perfect chocolate chip cookies! The following recipes are available from the book: Roasted strawberry Victoria sponge and Miso walnut double-thick chocolate-chip cookies (photographs below).

In this masterpiece of a book, Nicola delivers 115 pages of baking knowledge from the science behind ingredients and the role they play in baking, swaps for ingredients, yeast and fermenting facts and so much more. Then she shares recipes that are organized as follows: base recipes (doughs to pastry); afternoon bakes (recipes that take one afternoon or up to 4 hours); a day (recipes that take over 4 hours or have multiple steps); a weekend (recipes that need to be split over multiple days) and extras (brown butter, preserves, etc). Timelines are given for each recipe. The index of the book shares the recipes you will find here so I won’t repeat those. This is an absolute must-have for all bakers and one that will not leave my library of books.

Please note that the US edition of Sift will be published in November of this year and that Nicola’s tour in the UK is shared on our Calendar.

The last few 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 shared with our Members the indexing of four partner blogs in this post. Be sure to add them to your Bookshelf: VanillaPura. Diaspora Co.. Burlap & Barrel and Hayden Flour Mills.

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 that were recently indexed. ckbk titles notated as such – for more information on ckbk see Jane’s post. 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.


Member Photo of the Week

Garam masala and papad salad from Plant-Based India: Nourishing Recipes Rooted in Tradition ckbk (page 63) by Dr. Sheil Shukla submitted by member Ganga108

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Featured Online Recipe

My favorite hummingbird cake from Joy the Baker by Joy Wilson

Add the Joy the Baker blog for an additional 1,309 recipes.


Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

Lemongrass beef, chile, and rice noodle salad from The Memory of Taste: Vietnamese American Recipes from Phú Quoc, Oakland, and the Spaces Between by Tu David Phu and Soleil Ho – Publication date September 10th, 2024.

We currently have 7,661 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.


EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,847th 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.


Cookbook Giveaways
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  • Enter our US & Canada giveaway to win one of three copies of Flavor by Sabrina Ghayour. Contest ends May 14th, 2024.
  • Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of three copies of Beatrix Bakes Another Slice by Natalie Paull. Contest ends May 15th, 2024.
  • Enter our US/CA giveaway to win one of three copies of Zaytinya: Delicious Mediterranean Dishes from Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon by José Andrés. Contest ends May 15th, 2024.

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

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