What makes a cookbook terrific or terrible?

December 6, 2010 by
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Susie has written a great article today in Publishers Weekly, titled "10 Things Every Cookbook Publisher Should Know".  Susie receives stacks of new cookbooks every week and she road-tests and reviews many of them.  So she really knows what works and what doesn't. read more

Susie’s picks for best cookbooks of 2010

November 21, 2010 by
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Our own Susie Chang was on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday this morning with some of her picks of the best cookbooks this year.  The full list is on the NPR website and it's also worth listening to the on-air story. We will again this year be compiling a best of the best list of 2010 list, for which we will be tracking down… read more

How many cookbooks do we need?

October 21, 2010 by
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Josh Ozersky writes in the current issue of Time magazine that no-one needs more than about four cookbooks.  What nonsense!  Nancy Baggett, author of numerous wonderful cookbooks, has responded on her blog and asked for comments. read more

Best 50 cookbooks of all time?

August 13, 2010 by
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The Guardian has today listed the first installment of the best 50 cookbooks of all time, as chosen by The Observer's Food Monthly. The top 10 will be published in this Sunday's Observer. See how many you have, and how many you disagree with. Inevitably the skew is British though there are nine Americans in the list and one Australian. Rather… read more

Best cookbooks of the decade?

December 11, 2009 by
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In addition to their best of the year cookbook list, Eat Me Daily has produced a Best Cookbooks of the Decade list. I'm not sure that I agree with all their choices - too many restaurant chefs in my opinion. They are all indexed on EYB though, with the exception of The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (that $250 price tag is putting… read more

NPR stories worth catching

December 7, 2009 by
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Susie was featured on NPR yesterday talking about her selection of the best cookbooks of 2009 - you can hear her discussion with Lianne Hansen on Weekend Edition. Another interesting piece on NPR recently was a discussion between Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker and Monica Bhide, author of Modern Spice, with Rebecca Roberts on Talk of the Nation. This is a fascinating analysis,… read more

Best cookbook of 2009 Lists

December 5, 2009 by
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It's that time of year when all the Best Cookbooks of the Year lists are popping up - ours is up on the Community page now. Our own Susie's list for NPR has been attracting lots of attention. Here are some other best of lists you might like to take a look at. It's interesting how little overlap there is… read more
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