The Cake Bible, Crumbs and author events, EYBD Previews, recipes and more

October 18, 2024 by
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The temperatures are dropping here in Colorado and there is a crispness to the air that I look forward to every year. Cooler temperatures mean more baking (and roasting, braising and using the oven). Just in time for this season, I want to tell you about a few more amazing baking books that you will need to add to your wishlist.

The Cake Bible, 35th Anniversary Edition by Rose Levy Beranbaum and Woody Wolston will be released on October 22nd! (Update: The book is being shipped out early so we published the index today.) For comparison’s sake, the original edition was published in 1988 and had 320 recipes with 592 pages. This new massive tome has 684 pages with 386 recipes. The original edition received the IACP Cookbook of the Year (1988); James Beard award in Baking & Desserts as well as Book of the Year (1988) and was awarded the IACP Culinary Classic award in 2017.

This new edition has new photographs and reflects the 35 years that Rose has revised and tweaked her recipes based on new methods and reader feedback. As always with Rose’s books, there are measurements in weights and volume (she was one of the first to do this in the USA) and she shares detailed, well delineated instructions for each recipe. There are countless charts to convert recipes into various sizes, pointers for success, and variations for many of her battle-tested recipes.

Rose doesn’t forget the past and the new edition shares the original foreword by Maida Heatter and a new one written by Ron Ben-Israel. The chapters are broken down by Cakes, Showcase Cases, Wedding and Special Occasion Cakes, Frostings and Other Adornments for All Cakes, Special Effects and Decorative Techniques and ends with a chapter on Ingredients and Equipment. She ends the bible with pages on high-altitude baking and list of recipes by eggs used.

If you are wondering “do I need the revised edition” the answer is unequivocally YES! Events are scheduled to promote this book and are available on our calendar. Look for a promotion/giveaway on this title soon.

Crumbs: Cookies and Sweets from Around the World by Ben Mims was released yesterday by Phaidon. This book is a stunner and covers cookie recipes from around 100 countries around the globe. Each recipe begins with a fascinating origin story, followed by clear, step-by-step instructions and notes on regional variations. There are ten EYBD Recipes to try now and the gives you an idea at how beautiful this title is. I am a fan of baking and especially international baking so this book is right up my alley. The author has two events scheduled October 29th at Now Serving in Los Angeles and November 18th at Archestratus Books + Food in Brooklyn NY. Ben has written several cookbooks and I love his Sweet & Southern: Classic Desserts with a Twist.

I will be working on a baker’s gift guide of cookbooks from this year and hope to have that published towards the beginning of November.

The last week 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.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

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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.

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All-in-one holiday bundt cake from Baking with Dorie app by Dorie Greenspan submitted by Member smcculle

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Featured Online Recipe

Sausage meatballs with sticky peppers (page 7) from The Guardian Feast supplement, October 12, 2024 by Georgina Hayden

Add The Guardian Feast supplement to your Bookshelf for 11,486 online recipes. See our Help Section on how to add Magazines to your Bookshelf.

Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

Grilled Caribbean spiced fish with pineapple salsa (page 94) from from Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom: Really Good Food Without the Fuss by Prue Leith

We currently have 8,257 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.

EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,971st EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

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

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  • Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of three copies of Bake with Benoit Blin: Master Cakes, Pastries and Desserts Like a Professional by Benoit Blin. Contest expires October 31st, 2024.
  • Enter our US/CA/UK giveaway to win one of three copies of One Bake, Two Ways: Fifty Bakes with an All-plant Option Every Time by Ruby Bhogal. Contest expires November 1st, 2024.

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3 Comments

  • Fyretigger  on  October 18, 2024

    Thanks for the heads up on adding The Guardian; many great recipes to add. But the supplement underwent a name change in 2018, so to add all the recipes you seem to need to add two magazines: “The Guardian Food Supplement” and “The Guardian Feast Supplement”.

    • Jane  on  October 18, 2024

      You don’t need to do that Fyretigger – just entering “The Guardian” will get all the indexed recipes. The easier way to add them is to add all the indexed issues of the magazine supplements in one go – explained here in Help. You can see all the indexed issues, right back to 2013, here or by clicking The Guardian supplement in the list of indexed magazines under Browse on the Magazines tab. Almost every recipe has an Online Recipe link so it’s worth adding all the issues to your Bookshelf – they have great recipes.

  • averythingcooks  on  October 19, 2024

    I put Julia Turshen’s new title on my Christmas wish list …then read a little more about it and promptly ordered it. So much for my annual October “no book purchases until after Christmas” resolution.

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