Lost in translation: notes from The Messy Baker

August 24, 2014 by
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Charmian Christie is the force behind the blog The Messy Baker, and her writing has been featured in magazines like Natural Health, Relish, More, Edible Toronto, and The Globe & Mail. Charmian has just released her first cookbook, The Messy Baker. (You can enter our contest for your chance to win one of three copies and check out our  events calendar for details of… read more

Why it’s better from scratch

July 18, 2014 by
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Ivy Manning is a Portland, Oregon-based food and travel writer, food stylist, and cookbook author. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Cooking Light, Sunset Magazine, Fine Cooking, and Bon Appétit. Although her home base is in Oregon, Manning travels the globe studying the cuisines of diverse countries including Thailand, Italy, France, and Mexico. The author of last year's book on… read more

Cookbook store profile – The Cook Book Stall

July 16, 2014 by
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It's time for another installment in the EYB series highlighting independent cookbook stores. Discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. To keep this feature vital, we're asking our members to help us. We already know of many great stores, (you can view the full list here), but… read more

History to chew on

July 3, 2014 by
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When people think of Vietnamese food, one of the first things that comes to mind is banh mi. While many people love these sandwiches, they may only know a smidgen of the history behind them. Lucky for us, Andrea Nguyen knows the fascinating history of the sandwich that inspired her latest cookbook, The Banh Mi Handbook. (You can enter our… read more

The “Cluck Team” on fried chicken

May 28, 2014 by
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Fried chicken: whether you love it extra-crispy or cold on a picnic, you're sure to find your favorite style of this iconic American food in Lee Brian Schrager and Adeena Sussman's new cookbook, Fried & True.  This cookbook takes us on a journey to find the best regional fried chicken and side dish recipes. Mr. Schrager is the founder of the South… read more

Orangette pens a memoir

May 23, 2014 by
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Molly Wizenberg's popular blog Orangette, and her first book, My Homemade Life, are both indexed on EYB and can be found on many EYB members' Bookshelves. Molly has just published a second book, Delancey, a memoir that chronicles the opening of the restaurant she co-owns with her husband Brandon, and how that stressful time triggered the first crisis of her young marriage. The book features… read more

Cookbook store profile – Scrumptious Reads

May 16, 2014 by
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It's time for another installment in the EYB series highlighting independent cookbook stores. Discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. To keep this feature vital, we're asking our members to help us. We already know of many great stores, (you can view the full list here), but… read more

The “little sister” gets a cookbook

May 14, 2014 by
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Morito, a tiny restaurant tucked in to a small space in the heart of London's Exmouth Market, has been serving delicious and innovative tapas and mezze for over three years. Sam and Sam Clark's "little gem of a tapas bar" has attracted critical acclaim and long lines of patrons, and now you can enjoy the tapas bar's small plates even… read more

Be flexitarian with Bittman

May 9, 2014 by
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Mark Bittman is a fixture on many EYB member bookshelves, both because he's written several excellent cookbooks and because every one of his recipes is indexed on the EYB site (15,643 and counting). A former columnist for the Times Dining section, this prolific author is now back with the groundbreaking The VB6 Cookbook (Vegan Before 6 P.M.), where he provides the tools needed to make the… read more

Food52 launch their own imprint

May 2, 2014 by
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The hugely popular food website Food52 (4,517 recipes indexed on EYB) has announced their own cookbook imprint, Food52 Works, in conjunction with Ten Speed Press, part of the Random House empire.  The first book will be Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook - no publication date announced yet.  This is a collection of the "smartest recipes"… read more

The easiest way to add your books

April 29, 2014 by
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We know that one of the biggest obstacles for new members is the time and effort they think will be needed to add their books and create their Bookshelf.  It really doesn't take very long to do but if you own more than a few books, it's worth considering a barcode scanner.  This reads the barcode on the back of… read more

Cookbook store profile – featuring Book Larder in Seattle

April 23, 2014 by
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Recently we began to offer an EYB feature highlighting independent cookbook stores. Now you can discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. And to make this as strong a feature as we can, we're asking our members to help us. We already know of many great stores,… read more

Michael Ruhlman extolls the virtues of the egg

April 14, 2014 by
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Michael Ruhlman is an award winning writer whose cookbooks cover numerous subjects ranging from charcuterie to the importance of ratios. While the chicken (more precisely the chicken fat) may have come before the egg in his writing, he gives the egg its due with his latest work, simply titled Egg. Ruhlman graciously took time from his book tour to answer… read more

David Lebovitz takes us to Paris

April 11, 2014 by
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David Lebovitz has certainly kept busy since leaving a successful career as a pastry chef in San Francisco to move to France and begin a career in writing. His seventh cookbook, My Paris Kitchen, has just been released and promises to be another bestseller. (You can win a copy of the book by entering our contest.) On the eve of… read more

The sweet life, sans sugar

April 9, 2014 by
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  Sarah Wilson is an Australian author, tv host, blogger and wellness coach. MasterChef fans may know her as the host of the first season of MasterChef Australia. Her cookbook, I Quit Sugar for Life, has just been released in the United States, so we asked Sarah to discuss the book and provide EYB members with information on sugars and… read more

Andrea Slonecker eggs us on with her latest cookbook

March 25, 2014 by
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Eggs have experienced a resurgence recently, with the latest science promoting egg consumption as part of a healthy diet and a growing trend for urban dwellers to raise chickens. Andrea Slonecker's new cookbook, Eggs on Top, explores the countless ways that eggs can elevate a dish. We asked Andrea to discuss the book, egg trends, and her favorite way to make an egg.    You can… read more

Michele Scicolone wants you to eat your vegetables

March 23, 2014 by
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Michele Scicolone is no stranger to Italian food. She's written prolifically on the subject, publishing several cookbooks that range from appetizers (The Antipasto Table) to desserts (La Dolce Vita) and everything in between. Her latest effort is The Italian Vegetable Cookbook: 200 Favorite Recipes for Antipasti, Soups, Pasta, Main Dishes and Desserts. You can win a copy of the book… read more

Cookbook store profile: Featuring Kitchen Arts & Letters

March 22, 2014 by
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Recently we began to offer an EYB feature highlighting independent cookbook stores. Now you can discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. And to make this as strong a feature as we can, we're asking our members to help us. We already know of many great stores,… read more

Cookbook giveaway – A Lighter Way to Bake

March 18, 2014 by
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A Lighter Way to Bake is the fourth cookbook from model turned baker Lorraine Pascale. We're delighted to offer three copies of the book. Lorraine sat down with us to discuss her latest cookbook as well as the renewed interest in baking. To win a copy, just answer the following question: what is your favorite lighter or healthier dessert? Additional… read more

Lighten up your baking

March 18, 2014 by
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Lorraine Pascale's fourth cookbook, A Lighter Way to Bake, hits U.S. stores today (it was published in the UK last October). Eat Your Books sat down with Lorraine to discuss both her new book and baking's resurgence in popularity. To win one of three copies of this book, enter our contest.   EYB: Your new book A Lighter Way to Bake shows bakers how to… read more

Clarissa Dickson Wright dies at 66

March 17, 2014 by
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Clarissa Dickson Wright was someone who enjoyed life to the fullest.  Her career spanned being a barrister at Grey's Inn, to working in two cookbook stores, to cooking in a club and most famously, travelling around the UK in a motorcycle and sidecar with Jennifer Paterson, as The Two Fat Ladies. The Two Fat Ladies were unlikely TV stars -… read more

Cookbook giveaway – A Change of Appetite

March 13, 2014 by
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 A Change of Appetite is the 7th cookbook from London-based food writer and cookbook author Diana Henry.  We are delighted to offer 3 copies of the book, thanks to the publisher Mitchell Beazley/Octopus Publishing. The book contains the recipes that Diana Henry created when she started to crave a different kind of diet - less meat and heavy food, more vegetable-,… read more

What goes on behind the scenes of a cookbook?

March 13, 2014 by
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Diana Henry is a highly-respected food writer and cookbook author. Her 7th cookbook, A Change of Appetite has just been published in the UK and will be published in the USA in June.  Wanting to eat more "healthy" food Diana set out to explore exactly what that means, and made sure the food was also delicious.  She wrote an excellent post… read more

Improve your cooking skills with EYB’s new feature

February 27, 2014 by
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We've created a new feature that gives you access to 594 (and counting!) online how-to demonstrations, including how to carve a duck, how to make homemade ricotta, how to make marshmallow fluff, and how to prepare and cook artichokes. Select tutorials from cookbooks are indexed as well.  And even better, 127 of the tutorials have  videos. To browse all of the how-to links, go… read more

Me and my cookbooks

February 27, 2014 by
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At a time when conventional wisdom insists that no one is interested in cooking at home anymore, there is great joy in realizing that there are many others (EYB members) who enjoy the creativity and pleasure of sharing good food. So we wanted to celebrate our members by regularly publishing vignettes about members and their cookbooks. If you'd like to… read more
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