Cookies!, Cookbooks & Convos, EYBD Previews, recipes and more

September 6, 2024 by
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This year we are blessed with a wealth of fantastic cookie cookbooks being published. So hold off finalizing those holiday cookie plans until you take a look at these titles and those to come! Look for more cookie cookbook updates in the next few weeks. First of all the impeccable Zoë François' Zoë Bakes Cookies: Everything You Need to Know… read more

Simpler than simple

September 5, 2024 by
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In a recent story in Eater, writer Halima Mansoor explains that you should always make tomato sauce from scratch, because it's always worth the effort. Matt Adler, the chef behind Washington, D.C. red-sauce joint Caruso’s Grocery, agrees, saying: “I am never ever going to use jarred sauce in my house, because for me, it doesn’t taste delicious.” On an intellectual… read more

One Bake, Two Ways Cookbook Promotion with Quick Bites with Ruby Bhogal

September 4, 2024 by
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Enter our US/CA/UK giveaway to win one of three copies of One Bake, Two Ways: Fifty Bakes with an All-plant Option Every Time by Ruby Bhogal.   One Bake, Two Ways: Fifty Bakes with an All-plant Option Every Time by Ruby Bhogal delights us with a flexible approach to baking tasty, sweet treats that give you double helpings of temptation. She brings us… read more

Bake with Benoit Blin Cookbook Promotion

September 4, 2024 by
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Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of three copies of Bake with Benoit Blin: Master Cakes, Pastries and Desserts Like a Professional by Benoit Blin. Bake with Benoit Blin: Master Cakes, Pastries and Desserts Like a Professional by Benoit Blin is the Bake Off: The Professionals' judge and Chef Pâtissier at Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons first book. Chef… read more

Civil Eats removes paywall

September 3, 2024 by
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Civil Eats, an award-winning independent food news website that covers the areas of food and agriculture, especially through the lenses of how these systems intersect with policy, health, and the environment, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary (coincidentally making it the same age as EYB!). In honor of the site's birthday, they have removed its paywall for at least the next… read more

Food news antipasto

September 1, 2024 by
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You can find a food-related vector to almost any event in the world, and music concerts are no exception. With the news that the Gallagher brothers were reuniting for an Oasis tour, the hospitality industry is abuzz. Hotels, bars, and restaurants are all gearing up for next summer's concerts. The estimates are that the five Manchester tour dates could result… read more

One cup, many weights

September 1, 2024 by
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One of our Members recently emailed us a question that has likely been pondered by bakers ever since the kitchen scale was invented: just how much does a cup of flour weigh? While I have extolled the virtues of weighing ingredients before, I did not focus on the weight of flour specifically, although it is arguably the most critical weight… read more

Hate pineapple on pizza? Consider the banana

August 29, 2024 by
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The question of whether pineapple belongs on pizza can spark heated arguments. But if you think that pineapple has no place on pizza, there's another tropical fruit you may consider an even less worthy ingredient: banana. Banana pizza is popular, at least in Sweden, where it is usually paired with curry spices. Smithsonian Magazine traces the history of this unusual… read more

A grain of truth

August 29, 2024 by
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Because I am always looking for something interesting to bring to our Members' attention, I visit a lot of websites and ingest a lot of social media. The signal-to-noise ratio is quite low, because there is an astonishing amount of inconsequential and frankly boring food news, trends, and stories floating around. Content creators grasp at flimsy ideas and writers create… read more

Are you cuckoo for coconut?

August 27, 2024 by
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Coconut can be a divisive ingredient - maybe not as much as cilantro/coriander, but polarizing nonetheless. As someone who adores coconut, I don't mind the haters. It just means there is more of that rich, coconutty goodness for me. One of the great things about this tropical plant is its versatility. You can use it in savory or sweet applications,… read more

August 2024 New Cookbook Review

August 27, 2024 by
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We have arrived at the official beginning of "Cookbooktober" season. You can keep track of what is coming this year with our 2024 Cookbook Preview and don’t forget that you can create a wishlist and share it with your loved ones. Our August 2024 EYB Cookbook Club Summary and September 2024 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary can be found at the links provided. Last May… read more

Food news antipasto

August 25, 2024 by
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We'll start this week's roundup of food news with two Member favorites: LeCreuset and Staub. LeCreuset launched its latest color, a deep blue called Nuit. Exclusive to this color are shiny chrome knobs. Get it while you can - some items are already sold out on the LC website. Turning to Staub, they just released a Williams-Sonoma exclusive pan. The… read more

The PSL turns 21

August 24, 2024 by
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If you think that pumpkin spice latte returned to Starbucks' menu earlier than ever, you are not wrong. The coffee retailer brought back its signature autumn drink on August 22, two days earlier than in the past couple of years. Maybe it's because they are excited that the PSL is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year, making it officially old… read more

Think twice before eating that berry – or buying that foraging guide

August 23, 2024 by
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Alicia Silverstone, star of the popular 90s comedy Clueless, almost lived up to the name of the movie last week. She posted a video of herself taking a bite out of an unknown red fruit, which online sleuths determined was Jerusalem cherry, a mildly toxic plant. While some people were worried because she didn't post anything for over 48 hours… read more

Over 8,000 indexed EYBD recipes, previews and more

August 23, 2024 by
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This week we hit another EYB Milestone! We now have 8,023 EYBD Recipe Previews uploaded to our site. As we state below, all Preview recipes are indexed, whether the full book is indexed or not. The only exception to this is when a book is in the process of being fully indexed and the preview is done after the full index has begun*.… read more

August 2024 EYB Cookbook Club Summary

August 22, 2024 by
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Each month we previously offered at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. This summer we cooked our favorite recipe from any cookbook, magazine, blog or online option and had a huge increase in participation. We decided to do a poll in the group asking if Members wished to continue with the "anything goes" posting or choose… read more

Jane Dunn’s golden rules of baking

August 21, 2024 by
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Author of the popular blog Jane's Patisserie, UK baker Jane Dunn has written four bestselling cookbooks, and her blog was voted the top baking blog of 2020. Her recipes have been featured in Cosmopolitan and Baking Heaven Magazine, and she judged the Queen’s Jubilee Platinum Pudding alongside Mary Berry. Her first three cookbooks enjoy high ratings from EYB Members. The… read more

The publishing path less traveled

August 20, 2024 by
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The number of cookbooks published every year through traditional channels is astonishing. No one person could keep up with each and every book that comes out (although Jenny diligently reviews as many as possible). However, there are more books that don't even hit most people's radar because they are self-published. The world of self-publishing is growing, and the books can… read more

Recipes from Sicily & Recipes from Venice Cookbook Promotion

August 20, 2024 by
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Enter our worldwide giveaway to win a set of the following books Recipes from Sicily and Recipes from Venice by Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi. Three Members will receive a copy of each book. Katie Caldesi and her husband Giancarlo own the Caldesi restaurants and cookery schools based in London's Marylebone, Bray on Thames and Gerrards Cross. Katie is the principal… read more

Food news antipasto

August 19, 2024 by
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Every year my garden has at least one item that grows prolifically. This year it is cucumbers, and I've been running out of ideas to use them before they get limp. I guess I need to follow Logan Moffatt, aka TikTok’s ‘Cucumber Boy’, who has posted myriad ways to enjoy a cucumber salad. Armed with nothing more than a cucumber,… read more

Striking the balance between vagueness and detail in cookbooks

August 17, 2024 by
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As someone who does a lot of baking, I prefer my recipes to be precise. Don't tell me to use 'half an onion', instead please give me a measurement (ideally weight, in grams). Restaurant critic Jay Rayner is the opposite: he prefers instructions like 'a glug of this' or 'a splash of that'. However, recently he had to become a… read more

IACP 2024 Award Finalists

August 16, 2024 by
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The finalists for the 2024 IACP Cookbook and Media Awards were announced last evening. The Awards honor the authors, publishers, and other contributors behind the best cookbooks published each year. Their program requires multi-step, rigorous recipe testing in all relevant awards categories. Awards are given in 16 categories, and one cookbook will be selected by the IACP Executive Committee Members as the… read more

Cookbooktober and author events, recipes, EYBD Previews and more

August 16, 2024 by
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We have entered the busiest time of the year for those of us in the cookbook field - Cookbooktober. August through November will bring a plethora of amazing books for us to add to our Wishlist. To check out the titles slated for publication see our 2024 Cookbook Preview Post. This week I updated our Calendar and while many more… read more

September 2024 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary

August 15, 2024 by
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As our members know, each month we offer several cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around the interwebs and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might want to cook or bake something other than our choices.  We want to get this information out to you so you can prepare… read more

Why washing your produce may not be good enough

August 14, 2024 by
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Most of us wash our produce before prepping it for eating or cooking. We've been told that not only does it protect us from foodborne illness, but that it also helps remove residual pesticide residue. While the former may be true, a new study reveals that the latter is almost certainly false. We might want to dig out the good… read more
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