Barnes & Noble to quit selling magazines

April 27, 2020 by
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Barnes & Noble, the last standing brick-and-mortar large chain bookstore, recently closed over 500 of its 600 retail stores. Now they have announced that they won't be buying any new magazines and will stop carrying them altogether. This move will undoubtedly hit small publishers and niche publications the hardest. Retailers like Target and Walmart that have been allowed to stay… read more

Family Meal – Digital Cookbook to Benefit Restaurant Workers

April 19, 2020 by
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On May 5, Penguin Random House will publish Family Meal: Recipes from Our Community, a digital-only collection featuring more than 40 recipes from our roster of chefs and home cooks. 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Restaurant Workers’ Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund, which supports on-the-ground efforts in the restaurant community during this challenging time. From Ligurian Focaccia to Shrimp… read more

Hartwood by Eric Werner & Mya Henry

April 14, 2020 by
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As I was preparing a promotion for The Outdoor Kitchen: Live-Fire Cooking from the Grill by Eric Werner. I pulled my review written in 2015 for Werner's debut cookbook, Hartwood: Bright, Wild Recipes from the Restaurant at the Edge of the Yucatan and wanted to record it here. Hartwood is such a gorgeous book that its praises warrant repeating. Learn… read more

Eater’s list of the best cookbooks of the season

March 24, 2020 by
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The lists of new cookbooks to add to your wish list keeps growing. This version, featuring fifteen volumes, comes from Eater. You will see many of the same books that Jenny included on her recent list of the best spring cookbooks such as Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France by Melissa Clark and Falastin: A Cookbook by… read more

The best spring cookbooks according to Epicurious

March 16, 2020 by
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While Jenny provides us all with great reviews of upcoming books, she is only one person and can't possibly review every new volume that is hitting store shelves. To help fill the gaps, occasionally we report about other sites that also provide us with insight on upcoming releases. Today we'll take a look at what Epicurious thinks are the 55… read more

Jessica B. Harris receives JBF Lifetime Achievement Award

March 10, 2020 by
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Today the James Beard Foundation announced the recipient of its 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowing that honor on Jessica B. Harris. The award is given to those "whose body of work has had a positive and long-lasting impact on the way we eat, cook, and think about food in America". Harris is the author of twelve cookbooks documenting the foods… read more

André Simon Food and Drink book award winners 2019

February 22, 2020 by
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We have long covered the IACP, JBF, and Writers Guild UK cookbook awards, but one has sailed under our radar for years. This year we are rectifying that oversight, and are reporting on the 2019 André Simon Awards. Simon was the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the first half of the 20th century, and the… read more

2020 Art of Eating Prize long list announced

January 30, 2020 by
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The Art of Eating magazine first appeared in 1986 in the form of an eight-page black-and-white newsletter written by Edward Behr. After three decades in print, it transformed into a digital-only, advertising-free magazine with subscribers and contributors around the world. The magazine is about the best food and wine – what it is, how it is produced, and where to find it… read more

Meet India’s ‘Pickle Queen’

January 7, 2020 by
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Most self-published books are vanity projects and their print runs and sales are usually miniscule. Sometimes, however, one will break the mold and become a cult classic or even, in rare cases, a bestseller. That is part of the story behind Usha's Pickle Digest: The Perfect Pickle Recipe Book by Usha R. Prabakaran - but the self-publishing success is only… read more

Best of the best cookbooks 2019

December 22, 2019 by
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Whew, that was a marathon! More than 300 best cookbooks lists from around the world have been collected and amalgamated by myself and EYB staff to create the definitive guide to the top rated food and drink books of 2019. With no new books from huge names with international appeal (Ottolenghi, Nigella, Barefoot Contessa, etc) there was a chance for… read more

Tom Parker Bowles on his latest cookbook

December 8, 2019 by
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Tom Parker Bowles' most recent cookbook, Fortnum & Mason: Christmas and Other Winter Feasts, was released in the UK last fall but only recently made it to US bookstores. Parker Bowles, who writes a weekly column for The Mail on Sunday and is Food Editor for Esquire, recently sat down with Town & Country Magazine to talk about his latest… read more

Joanna Gaines’ second cookbook available for preorder

November 7, 2019 by
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To say that Magnolia Table, the debut cookbook from HGTV star Joanna Gaines, was a smash is an understatement. The book was #2 on the list of bestselling books following its release - not just on the list of cookery books, but of all books (it was second only to Michelle Obama's memoir). In June, Joanna teased fans with an… read more

Historic menu inspires an artful cookbook

October 8, 2019 by
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Art inspires life inspires art. This truism is fully in effect in Esther Choi's new cookbook titled Le Corbuffet: Edible Art and Design, out this month from Germany's Prestel publishing house. The journey to writing a cookbook began as a series of dinner parties that Choi - an artist, architectural historian, and self-taught cook - hosted for friends after she… read more

Family recipes that revealed a secret

September 30, 2019 by
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When Genie Milgrom was growing up, she never noticed that a family secret lurked in the recipes that her mother and grandmother made. Raised in a devoutly Catholic household, Milgrom never questioned the idiosyncrasies of her family's foods. They never mixed meat and dairy in the same meal, and they always cracked eggs into a separate bowl to make sure… read more

Why we love chef’s signature dishes

September 21, 2019 by
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The restaurant business is a tough segment to navigate successfully. There is always a high level of competition, which is why many chefs create a dish that they hope stands out from the pack - things such as Dominique Ansel's Cronut are the result of this pressure, combined with a chef's own impulse to create. Once diners experience a dish,… read more

Samin Nosrat’s new gig

September 6, 2019 by
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It's been a busy year for Samin Nosrat. In the spring she announced that she was writing a follow-up book to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat; she appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! program and she released a series of watercolor illustrations from her smash cookbook. Recently she announced another gig: editing The Best American Food Writing 2019. Last year's edition… read more

Must Have Books for Fall 2019

July 29, 2019 by
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We are proud of our global membership here at Eat Your Books. With a world of cookbooks to cover our "lists" are heftier than others. Even though this preview post takes into consideration cookbooks from all points on the map, I did try to pare it down for brevity's sake. That being said, please know that there are myriad titles… read more

Cookbook Kickstarter – Cambodian Cuisine

July 28, 2019 by
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One of our members brought an interesting Kickstarter to my attention this morning that strives to preserve Cambodian cuisine: NHUM - Restoring The Lost Flavors of Cambodia. Chef Nak founded her business, Rotanak, two years ago with the express mission to protect and preserve Cambodian cuisine and to bring it to the world stage. She has spent years gathering knowledge and… read more

Ottolenghi and Tamini Book News

July 3, 2019 by
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We have Ottolenghi news! Essential Ottolenghi: The Collection will be released in November of this year. For the first time in paperback, the deluxe boxed set features 280 recipes from the New York Times bestselling cookbooks Plenty More and Ottolenghi Simple. This release will help excite a new batch of cooks (it would make a wonderful graduation or wedding present). The beloved author… read more

Worldwide Best Cookbooks January – June 2019

June 23, 2019 by
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I've written some combination of the following words at various times over the last four years: cookbooks just keep getting better. Cookbook lovers are demanding more including photographs that inspire, recipes that tempt us, unique flavor combinations and an escape from our everyday lives all wrapped up between two covers. To make December's work easier, I've divided my best/favorites list… read more

Sifratna by Amjaad Al-Hussain

June 17, 2019 by
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Last week, The Washington Post featured an interview with Amjaad Al-Hussain author of Sifratna: Recipes from our Yemeni Kitchen and I immediately had to order the book.   While I am waiting for my copy to arrive in the mail, I wanted to share an EYBDigital preview with our members. This preview will take you inside Amjaad's gorgeous book and features the introduction… read more

Summer 2019 Cookbook Previews

June 11, 2019 by
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For those of us who feel as if we just decked our halls with boughs of holly, it's frightening to realize how quickly six months have passed. June and July are slower months in the publishing world but we still have a few great books to look forward to before August begins the madness that is Cookbooktober. For a peek… read more

Winners of the 2019 IACP Cookbook Awards

May 19, 2019 by
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This year's annual International Association of Culinary Professionals conference was held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At a ceremony held last evening, the association announced the winners of its 2019 IACP Cookbook, Digital Media, Food Photography & Styling Awards.  It was a good year for both Cook's Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen and its former leader, Christopher Kimball. The latter snagged the award… read more

May 2019 Cookbook Previews

May 12, 2019 by
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It's preview time! This month's releases bring us a nice variety of titles from Italian small plates to pizza making, barbecue secrets, to unleashing vegetables from the amazing Jose Andrés. EYBDigital titles are noted and other pertinent information is  shared.  As always, if I have the book, I will share a blurb - if I do not, I hope to… read more

Joy of Cooking is getting an upgrade

May 11, 2019 by
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First published in 1931 and created as a way to overcome a tragic event, the classic and authoritative Joy of Cooking has been in print for nearly ninety years. This fall, the book that taught generations of people how to cook is getting a facelift for the first time in over a decade. The new edition honors Joy's extraordinary history,… read more
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