Cookbook Giveaway – Little & Friday Trio of Books

Kim Evans started Little & Friday in 2007 in a small vacant butcher's shop  in Auckland, making everything from scratch and open only on Fridays. A decade later, she now operates four busy stores open 7 days a week. And even though she doesn't live up to either portion of her cafe's name, she still serves up food straight from the… read more

Artisanal Burger by Enzo De Angelis and Antonio Sorrentino

Artisanal Burger: 50 Italian Twists on an All-American Favorite by Enzo De Angelis and Antonio Sorrentino offers recipes for hamburgers stemming from traditional Italian cuisine alongside recipes for French fries, salads, and sauces. No longer the humble fast food iconic offering, burgers have entered gourmet status. With this beautiful book, you can mix up the burger with Italian flavors, artisanal… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Artisanal Burger

Artisanal Burger: 50 Italian Twists on an All-American Favorite by Enzo De Angelis and Antonio Sorrentino offers recipes for hamburgers stemming from traditional Italian cuisine alongside recipes for French fries, salads, and sauces. For more information on this cookbook, please see our review post, which shares a recipe for the Upperburger. We are pleased to offer two copies of this title to our EYB… read more

Jacques Pépin discusses changes in the food world

Jacques Pépin  remembers the first food that was more than sustenance for him: fresh milk from a cow. In an interview with the LA Times, Pépin recalls this and other gems as he recounts how the food world has changed since his childhood in WWII France. He also discusses what it was like to be on television in the culinary genre's… read more

How to edit cell phone photos

We are excited to see so many Members adding their own photographs to recipes. It is always interesting to see everyone's interpretation of the same dish. We would love to see even more Member contributions in this area. Please do not think that only professional-level photos are allowed - we want to see real-world examples! Nevertheless, we understand that you… read more

May 2017 – Cookbook Roundup

It seems as if we were just here talking about the 150 cookbooks that were released in April and here we are again. I have waded through piles of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases from the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. The only thing left for you to do is to… read more

New Bookmarks feature

You will notice when you look at your Bookshelf Recipes tab that there is now a chef's hat icon* before every recipe title. This is a new Bookmark feature that will show you at a glance on your recipe search results whether you have cooked a recipe (green), want to cook a recipe (orange) or have not chosen either (gray) -… read more

The latest food trend is hundreds of years old

  If you have an Instagram account and follow anyone who is into food, chances are high that you have seen dozens of photos of "cloud eggs", the latest craze to make the social media circuit. Golden yolks nestled in pillowy whites certainly are photogenic, but the recipe is nothing new. In fact, the technique dates back to the 17th… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – My Greek Family Table

My Greek Family Table: Fresh, Regional Recipes by Maria Benardis is a re-release of the 2009 edition. This book shares the stories of her summers cooking at her grandmother's elbow on the Greek island of Psara, and places an emphasis on eating for health and well-being. As Maria says, "This book is as much about the importance of the family and… read more

My Greek Family Table – Maria Benardis

My Greek Family Table: Fresh, Regional Recipes by Maria Benardis is a re-release of the 2009 original edition. This book shares the stories of Maria's summers cooking at her grandmother's elbow on the Greek island of Psara, and places an emphasis on eating for health and well-being. As Maria says, "This book is as much about the importance of the family… read more

Your guide to the many types of chili paste

  Not sure what type of chili paste to use in a recipe? Indexed blog Food52 can help. They have put together an excellent primer on the many varieties of chili paste. It turns out that there are dozens to choose from; you just need to know the general type to make the right selection. Chili paste can be simply… read more

Twenty Years of Better Baking – Author Profile – Marcy Goldman

Marcy Goldman started her website Better Baking.com back in 1997 and has built a baking empire stoked by her passion for sharing her well-tested recipes. Currently, she is in the process of moving things over to Marcy Goldman's Better Baking. When I look through Marcy's baking books, I am always amazed by the uniqueness of her recipes and thoroughness of her… read more

Spice support: cinnamon and cassia

Cinnamon is one of the most recognized and widely used spices in the world, flavoring everything from drinks to meats to breads and desserts. You might be surprised to learn that much of what you think is cinnamon is in fact a different spice. In the US, nearly all of the spice jars labeled as cinnamon actually contain cassia, which… read more

A Year of Picnics – Ashley English

While Ashley English's A Year of Picnics: Recipes for Dining Well in the Great Outdoors is, in theory, a cookbook and guide that shares the keys to a perfect picnic, the great selection of recipes can be used for any occasion - basket and blanket optional.  The chapters are organized seasonally with dishes featuring ingredients that are fresh and at their peak.… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – A Year of Picnics

While Ashley English's A Year of Picnics: Recipes for Dining Well in the Great Outdoors is, in theory, a cookbook and guide that shares the keys to a perfect picnic, the great selection of recipes can be used for any occasion - basket and blanket optional. For more information on this cookbook, please see our review post, which shares a recipe for Trail Mix… read more

Cookie dough craze sweeps the nation

  A recent tweet about a new food truck in my city made me do a double-take. Dozens of food trucks line up along several city blocks in the downtown area, but this one is serving something that none of the others have attempted: cookie dough. This is just the latest in a craze that has swept across the US… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

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

Cookbook Giveaway – Quick and Easy Thai

Quick and Easy Thai Recipes by Jean-Pierre Gabriel contains recipes that have been selected and adapted from his original book, Thailand: The Cookbook.  For more information on this cookbook, please see our review post  which shares a recipe for Crab Fried Rice. We are pleased to offer three copies of this title to our EYB Members in the US, Canada, UK and Australia.… read more

What do chefs plant in their gardens?

It's always informative to learn what chefs keep in their home kitchens. Sometimes the quality and breadth of those ingredients can invoke a twinge of inferiority for one's home pantry. The same can happen when you learn about what chefs grow in their garden. Or maybe it's just me. After reading Australian Gourmet Traveller's article on what chefs grow in… read more

Quick and Easy Thai Recipes – Jean-Pierre Gabriel

Quick & Easy Thai Recipes by Jean-Pierre Gabriel contains recipes that have been selected and adapted  to be "quick and easy" from his original more in-depth book, Thailand: The Cookbook.  The author spent years traveling Thailand to compile this tome of authentic recipes from home cooks, markets and restaurants to share in his original tome. For Quick and Easy, he chose recipes and adapted… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Food52 Ice Cream & Friends and Mighty Salads

The editors at Food52 released two books last month Ice Cream & Friends shares the best of Food52's contributors' recipes such as cinnamon roll ice cream, Saltine-brownie ice cream sandwiches and Burnt Toast Ice Cream. While Mighty Salads, shares the editors' favorite salad picks including Thai Pork Salad with Crisped Rice, Roasted Potato Salad with Mustard-Walnut Vinaigrette, and Fried Eggplant, Tomato… read more

Food52: Ice Cream & Friends and Mighty Salads

The editors at Food 52 released two books last month presenting a culinary paradox. In one corner, we have weighing in with 60 recipes for sorbets, sandwiches, no-churn ice cream and more that will make you scream, Ice Cream & Friends. In the next corner, tipping the scales with 60 new ways to turn salad into dinner and lunch, we have the… read more

PBS launches new mini-series on food icons

  If you are in the US, you will want to clear some time for the next two Friday evenings. That is when PBS stations across the country will air four documentaries on American food icons. Part of the 'American Master' series, the 'Chefs-Flight' programs chronicle the lives of James Beard, Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, and Alice Waters. The first… read more

The Really Quite Good British Cookbook Review and Recipe

The Really Quite Good British Cookbook: The Food We Love from 100 of Our Best Chefs, Cooks, Bakers and Local Heroes edited by William Sitwell shares 100 of Britain's food heroes most beloved recipes and proceeds from the sale of this gorgeous book supports the work of the Trussell Trust which operates food banks across Britian. The only thing that makes me… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – The Really Quite Good British Cookbook

The Really Quite Good British Cookbook: The Food We Love from 100 of Our Best Chefs, Cooks, Bakers and Local Heroes edited by William Sitwell shares 100 of Britain's food heroes most beloved recipes and proceeds from the sale of this gorgeous book supports the work of the Trussell Trust which operates food banks across Britian. The only thing that makes me… read more
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