Sharing the flavours of her childhood

May 26, 2016 by
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Sumayya Usmani was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and has lived in the UK for 10 years, first in London and now in Glasgow, Scotland. Always passionate about her heritage cuisine, she has grown up cooking the food she knows as Pakistani with the women of her family, and this kindled her love for cooking from an early age.… read more

May 2016 cookbook roundup

May 24, 2016 by
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  Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. Last month's biggest trend - grilling and barbecue - continues its strong showing in May. Healthy… read more

Review of Aperitivo by Marisa Huff

May 24, 2016 by
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Today we are starting a new feature - Jenny Hartin will be reviewing a new cookbook every week. Jenny is an enthusiastic home cook who lives in Colorado, owns the website The Cookbook Junkies and runs the Facebook group also called The Cookbook Junkies. The Facebook group is a closed group of 30,000 cookbook fans - new members are welcome. Jenny's first… read more

Classic Spanish recipes for today’s busy cook

May 5, 2016 by
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  Spain's most popular cookbook, 1080 Recipes, was originally published in 1972, and sold over 3 million copies in Spain. That volume, along with its sister title The Book of Tapas, were both written by the authorities on Spanish cooking: the late Simone Ortega and her daughter Inés. Now a new book, Quick and Easy Spanish Recipes, culls the quickest… read more

April 2016 cookbook roundup

April 28, 2016 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. The biggest April trend is grilling and barbecue, fitting as the Northern Hemisphere heads into cookout season.… read more

2016 James Beard Cookbook Award winners

April 27, 2016 by
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The James Beard Foundation announced it cookbook award winners yesterday. The list is generally different from the IACP winners announced earlier this month, although there are a few books that made both lists. The big winner in 2016 is J. Kenji López-Alt's The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science. It won in the American category for IACP and was named… read more

Author interview – Salma Hage

April 26, 2016 by
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Salma Hage, a Lebanese housewife from Mazarat Tiffah (Apple Hamlet) in the mountains of the Kadisha Valley in north Lebanon, has over 50 years experience of family cooking. She learned to cook from her mother, mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, and, having helped bring up her nine brothers and two sisters, often cooked for the whole family. She has also spent many… read more

New responsive site design

April 23, 2016 by
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  When you logged into EYB today, you probably noticed that the site looks a bit different. This is doubly so if you were using your mobile phone or tablet to access the site. At long last, our responsive design is up and running, with benefits for all users, but especially those using EYB on mobile platforms. The biggest change… read more

Can we all sit down to dinner together?

April 18, 2016 by
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Anna Thomas wrote her first cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure, while she was a film student at UCLA, and followed it a few years later with The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two. When she is not cooking, she writes screenplays and produces films. Her screen credits include My Family, Mi Familia and El Norte, both of which were nominated for an Academy… read more

Insider tips for making the perfect cocktail

April 12, 2016 by
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Based in New York City, Jules Aron is a mixologist, beverage consultant, and green lifestyle expert. For over twelve years she has been tending bar at some of Manhattan's finest dining establishments, hot spot nightclubs, swanky rooftop bars, and favorite happy hour spots. Her favorite remains the charming neighborhood bar, where connections are strong and far more personable. She is… read more

Author interview – Klancy Miller

March 23, 2016 by
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Klancy Miller is a writer and pastry chef. Following her graduation from Columbia University, and a stint in international development in French Polynesia, she earned a Diplôme de Pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. After apprenticing at the legendary Michelin-starred Taillevent restaurant, she was hired by Le Cordon Bleu Paris to edit recipes. She wrote about food for "Bonjour… read more

Author interview – Marisa McClellan

March 22, 2016 by
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Marisa McClellan is a full-time writer, teacher, and blogger at Food in Jars (three times nominated by Saveur magazine for a Best Food Blog award, and winner of Best of Philly from Philadelphia Magazine). She lives in Philadelphia with her husband. Marisa's blog is indexed on EYB, as are all of her cookbooks, including the just released Naturally Sweet Food in… read more

March 2016 cookbook roundup

March 22, 2016 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. March is the month for cookbook competitions and, not surprisingly, a corresponding upswing in the number of… read more

Eat well and enjoy every bite

March 12, 2016 by
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Nettie Cronish is a natural and organic foods chef, culinary instructor and cookbook writer. She is the author of several vegetarian cookbooks, and for the past 25 years has also been a culinary instructor teaching cooking classes  throughout Toronto and Ontario, Canada. Nettie also teaches corporate cooking classes and works with dieticians. When working with one of those registered dieticians,… read more

February 2016 cookbook roundup

February 24, 2016 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. February brings an extra day along with a veritable hodge-podge of cookery books with no clear theme… read more

A new life for a classic cookbook

February 23, 2016 by
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Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz was one of the leading cookbook authors of her generation and wrote numerous cookery books including The New Complete Book of Mexican Cooking. A culinary anthropologist and food historian, Ortiz served as a principal consultant for the Time Life Foods of the World series, as well as a regular contributor to Gourmet magazine. She died in New… read more

Oysters and their taste of place

February 9, 2016 by
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Writer Cynthia Nims is a lifelong resident of the Northwest US who reveled in growing up surrounded by great food. After studying cooking at Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in France where she received the Grand Diplôme d'Etudes Culinaires, Cynthia worked on numerous cookbooks with the school's president, Anne Willan. She is the author of ten cookbooks and was previously… read more

January 2016 cookbook roundup

January 28, 2016 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. This is a quiet month following the holiday push by publishers. This month's notable tomes include several… read more

Best selling cookbooks of 2015

January 28, 2016 by
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Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2015.  Now we asked them for their top sellers.  We thought it would be interesting to compare the lists from specialist stores in the USA to that for all US sales from the publishing industry data company, Nielsen.  They are very… read more

Healthy food should be delicious

January 27, 2016 by
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Gizzi Erskine is probably best known for being a presenter on the British television show Cook Yourself Thin and for writing the show's companion cookbook. Gizzi trained at the prestigious Leith's School of Food and Wine before going on to work at BBC Good Food magazine. She is the food columnist for Company magazine, wrrites for The Sunday Times, and has contributed to Marie Claire, Instyle,… read more

The perfect prescription

January 20, 2016 by
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Angelo Acquista, M.D. is board certified physician and a clinical instructor in medicine at Northshore-LIJ University Hospital in Manhattan. He grew up eating in his native Sicily and this culinary background, coupled with his desire to help his patients improve their health, spurred Dr. Acquista to "prescribe" recipes to his patients for nutritious and flavorful home-cooked meals highlighting ingredients from his… read more

Sara Dickerman’s Kitchen Inventory

January 10, 2016 by
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Many people attempt new healthy eating regimes to start the new year. Often this is a short-lived effort, as the meal plans leave food lovers feeling deprived and unfulfilled. Chef and food writer Sara Dickerman attempted to rectify this situation, creating a popular healthy eating plan on the Bon Appétit website. What began as an interactive post-holiday plan that puts an emphasis on home… read more

The favorite cookbooks of 2015

December 22, 2015 by
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For the seventh year running we have searched the world for best cookbook lists.  And for the fourth time, Ottolenghi has the most loved cookbook in the world - Nopi. This time his co-author is Ramael Scully, the chef at Nopi.   Check out our Best of the Best page for all the other top choices including charts from the… read more

November 2015 cookbook roundup

November 24, 2015 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. November is a bit quieter than October but retains a few of the same trends including an… read more

Buy a gift certificate and win a free lifetime membership

November 24, 2015 by
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You know how useful you find Eat Your Books? How about sharing that benefit with all your friends and family who love to cook? Gift certificates are available for one, two and three year memberships. And every gift certificate you buy between now and Dec 31 will enter you into a drawing to win one free lifetime EYB membership -… read more
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