Soup Swap Comforting Recipes to Make and Share

Kathy Gunst is a food writer and the author of numerous cookbooks. She is the "Resident Chef" on Here and Now on WBUR, the NPR station in Boston. Kathy was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award in 2000 for her work on this show.  Her newest title, Soup Swap, is sure to make our chilly days deliciously warmer. Be sure to enter… read more

Author Interview with Marie Holm

Marie Holm is a Danish food writer and cookbook author with a mission to bring back puddings. Her book Quivering Desserts & Other Puddings is presently out in Danish, English and German and she was recently filmed for Rick Stein's Long Weekends BBC TV Series. Marie Holm started out her career as a food journalist, then became a food critic and since… read more

Author interview with Angela Liddon

For the past 6 years, award-winning blogger Angela Liddon has shared energizing, plant-based recipes on her blog Oh She Glows. Her goal is to inspire you to embrace more plant-based foods in your diet without feeling the least bit deprived. After publishing a successful first cookbook (The Oh She Glows Cookbook), Liddon decided to write a follow-up. This second book,… read more

Author interview with Kristin Donnelly

Food & Wine-editor-turned-freelance-writer Kristin Donnelly calls her blog Eat Better Drink Better because that's what she aims to do most days. By better, Kristin isn't referring to some unattainable, lofty goal, but rather she means tastier, often healthier and more sustainable cooking. Kristin continues to write and develop recipes for Food & Wine as well as publications like Every Day… read more

A passion for Rome and its food

Kristina Gill is the food and drinks editor at DesignSponge.com, a home and lifestyle site with over 1.2 million readers per month. Her original recipes, and those she hand-selects from celebrated authors, chefs, and readers have appeared weekly as the "In the Kitchen With" column since 2007. She is also a food and travel photographer. Kristina transferred to Rome in… read more

How to make leafy greens irresistable

Acclaimed cookbook author and blogger Dana Jacobi combines healthy ingredients with creative twists. She is the award-winning author of fifteen cookbooks. When Williams-Sonoma wanted to feature healthy cooking, they asked her to write or co-author six books!  She has also written for publications, including O: The Oprah Magazine, Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, and The New York Times, and for 19 years,… read more

Excerpt from ‘Pure Delicious’

Food blogger and author Heather Christo was once "openly skeptical about the very existence" of food allergies, but when her young daughter had repeated unexplained illnesses, she reluctantly came to the conclusion that food allergies could be the problem. After extensive testing, she learned that not only did her daughter, Pia, have many food allergies, but so did she and… read more

Author Q&A with Domenica Marchetti

Domenica Marchetti is a food writer, recipe developer, and cooking teacher who specializes in Italian home cooking. She learned to cook from her Italian-born mother, who put her to work crafting capelletti, ravioli, and other Italian culinary delights as soon as she could see over the kitchen counter. A former newspaper reporter with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia… read more

Recipes for a life filled with food and love

Béatrice Peltre is a food writer, stylist and photographer working out of her home studio in Boston. She is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Food Section, and her work has appeared in many publications. Her indexed blog, La Tartine Gourmande, is popular with EYB Members. Beatrice has just published her second cookbook, My French Family Table: Recipes for… read more

Q&A with the authors of Batch

Joel MacCharles and Dana Harrison are the duo behind the popular website WellPreserved.ca. Dana's love of great food is only matched by her love for tasty design. She is the Creative Director at WellPreserved, where she makes sure everything looks as good as it tastes. Joel is a home cook and writer. He loves to cook a great meal, but beyond… read more

Following her culinary wanderlust

Author Marie Simmons has won both James Beard and IACP Awards during her storied career, and her recipes and food articles have appeared in hundreds of magazines. For more than 18 years she wrote the Cooking For Health monthly column for Bon Appétit magazine and was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the Contra Costa Times.… read more

Recipe excerpts from Clean Cakes by Henrietta Inman

Henrietta Inman is a skilled pastry chef and owner of Henrietta Inman Pâtissière and Hen's Clean Cakes. After gaining a distinction in the Professional Pâtisserie Scholarship at Westminster Kingsway College, London, she worked in a number of award-winning kitchens including the Michelin-starred Lanesborough Hotel, London. Henrietta lives in Suffolk and does baking demonstrations, runs cookery classes and sells at farmers'… read more

Sharing the flavours of her childhood

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

Classic Spanish recipes for today’s busy cook

  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

Author interview – Salma Hage

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

Can we all sit down to dinner together?

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

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

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

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

Eat well and enjoy every bite

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

A new life for a classic cookbook

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

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

Healthy food should be delicious

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

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

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
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