Cookbook giveaway – Naturally Sweet Food in Jars

March 22, 2016 by
 |  48 Comments  |  Leave Comment
You could say that Marisa McClellan has a thing for canning. The award-winning blogger and author has written extensively on the subject, and her work has appeared on several sites including The Food Network, Saveur, and Food52. In addition, McClellan has written several acclaimed cookbooks including the recently released Naturally Sweet Food in Jars: 100 Preserves Made with Coconut, Maple,… read more

March 2016 cookbook roundup

March 22, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. March is the month for cookbook competitions and, not surprisingly, a corresponding upswing in the number of… read more

The authenticity trap

March 21, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
When people look for a restaurant - or a cookbook, for that matter - from a specific country or region, the question of authenticity often arises. You might hear someone ask "Is it real (Mexican/Chinese/Thai/etc) food?" But to think that way is to acquiesce to a stereotype, says Phoenix Times reporter Minerva Orduño Rincón. Rincón discusses the phenomenon as it applies to Mexican… read more

A new creation for Macaron Day

March 20, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
  Today is Macaron Day, and in honor of the special event, pastry chef François Payard has invented a new treat: the Macaronut. It's not quite a mashup in the mold of Dominique Ansel's Cronut, but instead the texture of the filling is made to resemble that found in a donut. The outside of the treat is made of the… read more

Writing for the radio

March 19, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
You may have heard Kathy Gunst on National Public Radio's Here and Now, a live news magazine show broadcast to over 500 public radio stations in the US. Recently Gunst spoke with Dianne Jacob to explain how writing for the popular radio program differs from writing for print.  Gunst knows a thing or two about food writing: she's the author… read more

From blog to book to building

March 18, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
  There are nearly 300 million blogs in circulation, according to Tumblr, and a great many of them are about food. The most successful food bloggers go on to secure book deals, like Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, Heidi Swanson of 101 Recipes, and Joy Wilson of Joy the Baker, among others. According to Eater, a handful of high-profile bloggers are… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

March 18, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
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 own… read more

New live streaming food channel launches

March 16, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
If you long for the days when content-focused cooking shows ruled the Food Network, you may want to try out a new streaming service that is creating a channel dedicated to food. Twitch, known for its video game streaming, recently announced that it would "begin curating a growing supply of live video related to food" into a new channel called… read more

James Beard Foundation 2016 nominees

March 16, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
  The James Beard Foundation has just announced the nominees for its 2016 cookbook awards. Compared to the recently published IACP list, the JBF award nominees seem to align better with the preferences of EYB Members. More Member favorites made the latter list than the former, including The New Sugar and Spice by Samantha Seneviratne, A Bird in the Hand by Diana Henry… read more

What it’s really like to write a cookbook

March 15, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
If you've co-authored five cookbooks with five different chefs, writing your own cookbook should be a piece of cake, right? Not so, says Jessica Battilana. She has worked with temperamental chefs and tight deadlines before, but writing her own cookbook proved to be a much more difficult task. Writing a cookbook with chefs meant Battilana had to act as a… read more

It’s not too late to celebrate pie day!

March 14, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
  If you write your dates in the US convention (month/day/year), then today is a very special day. This is as close to the numbers of pi, the mathematical constant, as we are going to get for another 100 years. Rounding the first six digits of pi results in 3.1416 - exactly today's date. Rounded date, round pie - it's… read more

Top Chef winners: where are they now?

March 13, 2016 by
 |  One Comment  |  Leave Comment
  Top Chef is nearing the end of its 13th season on the Bravo network and shows no signs of slowing down. It's hard to believe that the first winner was crowned nearly a decade ago. If you've ever wondered what happened to the winners of each season, Yahoo! Food has the answers. The first season saw Harold Dieterle best… read more

Eat well and enjoy every bite

March 12, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
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

Cookbook giveaway – Nourish

March 12, 2016 by
 |  56 Comments  |  Leave Comment
The authors of the new cookbook Nourish: Whole Food Recipes featuring Seeds, Nuts & Beans created the book after discovering a mutual love for beans. The duo, Nettie Cronish and Cara Rosenbloom, felt that  nutritious and inexpensive legumes, along with seeds and nuts, are often underutilized in everyday cooking. Since those ingredients offer a positive nutritional impact that belies their… read more

Your cheese addiction may be more real than you know

March 11, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
Can't seem to resist that last piece of cheese on the snack tray? You can blame compounds in cheese like casein, which "can trigger the brain's opioid receptors which are linked to addiction," according to a recent study. The authors of the study set out to determine why some foods seem to be addictive. They found that cheese ranked atop… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

March 10, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
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

Cookbook explores recipes from India’s working class

March 10, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
You may not recognize the name Dharavi, but you might be familiar with a movie made about this multi-ethnic and multicultural settlement - Slumdog Millionaire. Over 1 million migrants live in the teeming slum, which is also home to thousands of cottage industries. Most of those industries are run by men, whose wives remain at home to manage the household… read more

A day in the life

March 9, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
  In late 2015, Nathalie Christian was hired to work as a recipe tester and project assistant for Emily Kaiser Thelin, author of the forthcoming biographical cookbook about Paula Wolfert titled UNFORGETTABLE: Bold Flavors from Paula Wolfert's Renegade Life. [We previously discussed this project and its Kickstarter backing on the EYB blog.] In a recent blog post for the San… read more

IACP announces 2016 cookbook award nominees

March 8, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
  Last night the IACP has announced its 2016 Cookbook Award nominees. The categories were revised again this year, with the Culinary History, Global Design and E-cookbook sections dropped and the former Beverage/Reference/Technical category losing its Beverage component.  Several of the nominations were expected, like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science in the American category and Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change… read more

A cookbook (of sorts) for Louise Penny fans

March 7, 2016 by
 |  One Comment  |  Leave Comment
  If you are a Louise Penny fan, you're probably excited for the upcoming August release of her new book, A Great Reckoning. For those new to Ms. Penny, she is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Penny has been awarded the John Creasey… read more

Sam Beall of Blackberry Farm Restaurant dies at age 39

March 6, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
Farm-to-table promoting chef and author Sam Beall of Blackberry Farm located in Walland, Tennessee, has died at age 39 in a skiing accident in Colorado. Beall grew up in Tennesse, attended the California Culinary Academy, and apprenticed at the French Laundry, the Ritz-Carlton, Cowgirl Creamery, and Chateau Potelle. After working at these prestigious restaurants, Beall returned to Blackberry Farm, which… read more

Recipe pet peeves

March 5, 2016 by
 |  24 Comments  |  Leave Comment
  Have you ever started a recipe, only to find an ingredient in the instructions that wasn't included in the list of ingredients? It's infuriating, and just one of the 20 things that Epicurious' staff and readers hate to see in recipes. In addition to those maddening extra ingredients, Special Projects Editor Adina Steiman despises extra bowls. "It's a drag when… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

March 4, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
At Eat Your Books we want to bring you the best recipes - our dedicated team searches out and finds online recipes excerpted from newly indexed cookbooks and magazines. New recipes from the best blogs are indexed daily and members index their favorite online recipes using the Bookmarklet all the time. Below you'll find this week's recommendations from the EYB team.… read more

Are you ready for a tart takeover?

March 4, 2016 by
 |  3 Comments  |  Leave Comment
  The cupcake craze that peaked a few years back may be on the wane, but there hasn't been anything that has taken its place. One baker hopes to change that: Christina Maria Chambers is on a mission to elevate the status of tarts. Through her recently-launched company, Black Pearl Tarts, Chambers aims to "raise the profile of the oft-overlooked… read more

New ATK hosts announced

March 3, 2016 by
 |  Leave Comment
Late last year we reported about the shakeup at America's Test Kitchen that included Christopher Kimball's surprise departure. Jack Bishop became the Chief Creative Officer, but until today we didn't know who would take over hosting duties for the popular ATK programs. In a message shared via email and on the ATK website, Bishop announced that the new hosts of… read more
« Older posts
Newer posts »
Seen anything interesting? Let us know & we'll share it!

Categories

Archives