Field Peas to Fois Gras – Dinner Déjà Vu

Jennifer Booker is the author of two fantastic cookbooks which I am featuring today. Her cooking style is a modern interpretation of Southern cuisine that incorporates the traditional use of fresh, seasonal ingredients with the French culinary techniques she learned from her training at the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Paris. Her first cookbook, Field Peas to… read more

Bread Toast Crumbs by Alexandra Stafford

Bread Toast Crumbs: Recipes for No-Knead Loaves & Meals to Savor Every Slice by Alexandra Stafford is the debut cookbook from the writer behind Alexandra's Kitchen. I love this book! Right off, we learn that for years the author's mother lied about her bread recipe (stating it was a King Arthur recipe from the back of the bag) whenever anyone asked for it.… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Bread Toast Crumbs

Bread Toast Crumbs: Recipes for No-Knead Loaves & Meals to Savor Every Slice by Alexandra Stafford is the debut cookbook from the writer behind Alexandra's Kitchen. For more information on this title which has me quite smitten, please see our review and recipe post.  We are pleased to offer three copies of this title to our EYB Members in the US with one grand… read more

JBF announces 2017 media award winners

  At a gala held this evening, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2017 James Beard Media Award winners. This year will definitely go down as the Year of the South in American cookbooks. While Deep Run Roots was the runaway winner in the IACP awards, Ronni Lundy swept the JBF, winning in the American Cooking category as well as… read more

April 2017 – Monthly Roundup

The months seem to fly by as I wade through piles of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases from the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and more. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf.  If you are planning to purchase any of these books for yourself or… read more

How eating ‘ugly food’ can help the environment

Why don't we eat more octopus? What about gurnard and other ugly fish? Cheeks, feet and offal are cheap and delicious, but people prefer steaks and chops. What about rabbits and squirrels? And what's wrong with ugly vegetables? These are the types of questions that spurred Tim Wharton and Richard Horsey to write their cookbook Ugly Food: Overlooked and Undercooked.… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Add a Pinch

Add a Pinch: Easier, Faster, Fresher Southern Classics by popular blogger, Robyn Stone, puts fresh ingredients center stage in slow cooker meals, casseroles and one-dish suppers, salads, soups, and desserts that have deep, satisfying flavors but are a cinch to make. For more information on this title, please see our review and recipe post.  We are pleased to offer three copies of this title… read more

Add a Pinch – Robyn Stone

Add a Pinch: Easier, Faster, Fresher Southern Classics by popular blogger, Robyn Stone, puts fresh ingredients center stage in slow cooker meals, casseroles and one-dish suppers, salads, soups, and desserts that have deep, satisfying flavors but are a cinch to make. Smart swaps like Greek yogurt for mayo in pimento cheese and cauliflower "rice" put a modern spin on these… read more

The unicorn food trend

Have you had a Starbucks Unicorn Frappucino? If so, you participated in the hottest food trend of the moment: unicorn food. The fad got its start last year, thanks in part to health and wellness blogger Adeline Waugh from Miami, Florida. Ms. Waugh didn't plant to start a trend, however. She was merely experimenting with a natural food dye -… read more

Spice support: kaffir lime leaves

Due to the positive responses from last week's post on sumac, we have decided to offer a weekly post that explains an herb, spice, or spice blend. If there is a particular spice, herb, or blend that you are interested in learning more about, send an email to Darcie and she will try to include it in the series. This… read more

Notes on a Banana – Author Interview with David Leite

Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression is the brilliant and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website, Leite's Culinaria. David's website is indexed for our members - one click and almost 2,900 recipes will be added to your bookshelf. Notes on a Banana is funny, touching and stay-up-all-night read - a story of the… read more

Book Giveaway – Notes on a Banana

Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression by David Leite is the brilliant and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite's Culinaria. David's website is indexed for our members - one click and almost 2,900 recipes will be added to your bookshelf.   Notes on a Banana is funny, touching and… read more

Explore Chinese cuisine with excellent teaching cookbooks

  Browsing the EYB Library, it is easy to become overwhelmed. If you are looking for a cookbook to use as a springboard for learning a particular cuisine, you probably have hundreds from which to choose. Finding one that strikes the correct balance between history, instruction, and authenticity can be a challenge. For someone learning Chinese cuisines, a recent article… 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

Impractical kitchen gadgets that we love anyway

  Every day it seems my inbox is filled with advertisements for shiny new kitchen gadgets that promise to save time or outperform older models. A kitchen scale is so much more accurate than that old set of measuring cups, and by using the tare feature I can get those cookies in the oven faster. That heavy-duty blender will make… read more

La Vie Rustic – Georgeanne Brennan

La Vie Rustic: Cooking and Living in the French Style by Georgeanne Brennan shares recipes driven by the seasons with beautiful photographs and a touch of the outdoors. This inspiring cookbook weaves together Georgeanne's personal experience, stories, and tips on how to create a sustainable life. Celebrating the relationship between the land and the table, and among food, family, and friends -… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – La Vie Rustic

La Vie Rustic: Cooking and Living in the French Style by Georgeanne Brennan shares recipes driven by the seasons with beautiful photographs and a touch of the outdoors. This inspiring cookbook weaves together Georgeanne's personal experience, stories, and tips on how to create a sustainable life. Celebrating the relationship between the land and the table, and among food, family, and friends -… read more

Is this a golden age of desserts?

  For many years - decades , even - desserts at restaurants were often an afterthought. Only in the finest dining establishments would you find a dedicated pastry chef who would put together a well-considered, challenging, and delicious dessert menu. In the aftermath of the financial crisis in the late 2000s, even those restaurants began to cut their pastry programs.… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Cin Cin Wood-Fired Cucina

Cin Cin Wood-Fired Cucina by Andrew Richardson celebrates the 25th anniversary of the famous Cin Cin Ristorante + Bar in Vancouver. The restaurant and cookbook both focus on fresh, local ingredients that are allowed to shine in recipes. For more information on this cookbook, please see our review and recipe post.  We are pleased to offer two copies of this title to our EYB Members in the… read more

Cin Cin Wood-Fired Cucina

Cin Cin Wood-Fired Cucina by Andrew Richardson celebrates the 25th anniversary of the famous Cin Cin Ristorante + Bar in Vancouver. The restaurant and cookbook both focus on fresh, local ingredients that are allowed to shine in recipes. Showcasing wood-oven cooking techniques and filled with spectacular photographs, each ingredient is highlighted by section. With recipes for Fried Zucchini Blossoms - Montasio, Goat Cheese… read more

Browse cookbooks in a hotel lobby

  If you are planning to visit New York City, we found a hotel that you may never want to leave if you love cookbooks. Matt Sartwell, the managing partner of Kitchen Arts & Letters has opened a branch of the culinary bookstore in the lobby library of the Park South Hotel in NoMad. The site will feature a wide variety of… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Tartine All Day

Tartine All Day: Modern Recipes for the Home Cook by Elisabeth Prueitt, Jessica Washburn and Maria Zizka hit the shelves this month and I did my cookbook happy dance. Tartine's books are favorites of Eat Your Book members and this cookbook lover as well. Over the years, I have made many recipes and have not experienced a flop. This is how bad I… read more

Tartine All Day

Tartine All Day: Modern Recipes for the Home Cook by Elisabeth Prueitt, Jessica Washburn and Maria Zizka hit the shelves this month and I did my cookbook happy dance. (Think Elaine - Seinfeld). Tartine's books are favorites of Eat Your Book members and this cookbook lover as well. Over the years, I have made many recipes and have not experienced a flop. This… read more

Meet the new Queen of Ice Cream

  Unlike the recent spate of ice cream cookbooks, Hello, My Name is Ice Cream by Dana Cree isn't a book from an iconic local shop or specialty label ice cream manufacturer. As indexed magazine Saveur explains in its interview with Dana, the cookbook is more of "a single-subject edition of Modernist Cuisine, or a biochem textbook where the at-home exercises reward you… read more

Highlights of April’s Cookbooks Part 3

April is a busy month - over 150 cookbooks from around the world being released that will make it to our roundup. My first  and second preview posts focused mainly on US titles and today's features more international releases. If you wish to buy or preorder any of these titles, using our BUY BOOK button helps support our indexing efforts by providing a… read more
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