Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

October 7, 2016 by
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Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy - but you don't have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest finds. Every day recipes are added from the best blogs and websites. As a member, you can also add your… read more

An interview with Beatrice Ojakangas

October 6, 2016 by
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Before Beatrice Ojakangas, there was no cookbook for Finnish cuisine. Today her first book, The Finnish Cookbook, is in its 38th printing. The Minnesota author has published several cookbooks since that 1964 volume, including The Great Scandinavian Baking Book, a Member favorite that has been inducted into the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Hall of Fame. Ojakangas has just released a memoir entitled Homemade:… read more

October releases worth the excitement – second installment

October 6, 2016 by
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With so many exciting books being released in October, I thought it best to break up the highlights in installments. After you have finished soaking up this post, be sure to check out my first installment which covered nine other titles that are worthy of our attention. Food52: A New Way to Dinner by Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs is a playbook of… read more

Jamie Oliver’s controversies over the years

October 5, 2016 by
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Jamie Oliver recently landed in hot water with Spaniards  when he put chorizo into a paella recipe. The outspoken chef is not afraid to say what's on his mind, and that often makes people angry. Food Republic has compiled a listing of all the times that Oliver has stirred up controversy. Most of the dustups that the chef has gotten… read more

Flavour – Ruby Tandoh

October 5, 2016 by
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Ruby Tandoh is back with her second cookbook Flavour: Eat What You Love. I am a huge fan of Ruby's recipes and her first title Crumb: The Baking Book is brilliant (a little on that title below). In Flavour, Ruby has divided the book into five chapters by ingredient: Vegetables and Herbs, Fruit, Eggs and Dairy, Meat and Fish, and Storecupboard. These… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Flavour

October 5, 2016 by
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Ruby Tandoh, one of my favorites from the Great British Bake-Off show, has written a second book, Flavour: Eat What You Love. There is much to love about Ruby's books - her enthusiam and fresh approach to combining ingredients shines through in her recipe writing and her overall "eat what you love" philosophy is refreshing. Her recipes instill an air… read more

It’s not the humidity, it’s the heat

October 4, 2016 by
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  As the weather turns cool and damp, articles suggesting that you need to adjust the amount of flour in your baking recipes start popping up on newsfeeds. Usually the author suggests that you may need to add more flour to a recipe to account for the extra humidity. However, the science of humidity and flour doesn't mesh with this… read more

October releases deserving of our attention

October 4, 2016 by
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September delivered some truly wonderful titles and the fun isn't over yet. October promises to be an exciting time in the world of cookbooks. Join me as I touch on a few titles to enjoy this Fall and be prepared to spend plenty of time in the kitchen. Darcie shared some of the best of Fall compilations yesterday in her… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Samarkand

October 3, 2016 by
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Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus by Caroline Eden & Eleanor Ford is a love letter to the city of Samarkand. A magical place with "sky-blue mosques, sand-colored minarets and fluted domes, ceramic tiles and mosaic surfaces dazzling with floral motifs and geometric patterns" that make you long to wander and find yourself lost in this compelling… read more

What others are saying about the 2016 fall cookbooks

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  I think you'll all agree that Jenny has been doing a fantastic job of doing in-depth reviews of many new cookbooks for EYB. However, no one person - no matter how energetic and enthusiastic - can cover every new release, especially in the fall when the books really start coming. To keep you in the loop on other new… read more

Interview with the authors of Samarkand

October 3, 2016 by
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The fascination with cookbooks that tell a tale of faraway lands, cultures and cuisines continues to gain momentum and I, for one, am thrilled with this growth.  Samarkand: Recipes and Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus is such a cookbook. The authors Caroline Eden and Eleanor Ford  share their love of this magical place in the pages of this title.… read more

Dinner at the Long Table – Andrew Tarlow & Anna Dunn

October 2, 2016 by
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In Dinner at the Long Table, rambling poetry-like prose, story-telling and delicious food gather together and produce a book that will blow your cookbook-loving minds. Andrew Tarlow, is a rock-star chef in Brooklyn with six restaurants, a hotel, a bar and a bakery, that comprise his empire.  The authors deliver a year's worth of menus in this title that range from… read more

Dominique Ansel takes Cronut 2.0 to London

October 2, 2016 by
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  Londoners who want a Cronut now have a much shorter distance to travel to find one. Dominique Ansel has just opened a new London bakery featuring a retooled Cronut plus several new menu items. Queues are expected to be quite long for the new bakery, located in the West London neighborhood of Belgravia.  Ansel is excited about his new space,… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

October 1, 2016 by
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Do you find other people's comments on recipes helpful? Have you written your own recipe Notes? It's a great way to remind yourself how a dish turned out and share your experience with the EYB community. On each Recipe Details page you'll find a Notes tab. Adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to expand… read more

Tips for getting the most out of your cookbooks

October 1, 2016 by
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  We all have our go-to cookbooks with grease-splattered, dog-eared pages that we return to time and again. Other books on our shelves are used far less often, and there may be a few that we've never cooked from at all. At the end of a long day it's just easier to return to a familiar friend rather than take… read more
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