Best selling cookbooks of 2017

January 23, 2018 by
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Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2017. Now we asked them for their top sellers. We thought it would be interesting to compare the lists from specialist stores in the USA to that for all US sales from the publishing industry data company, Nielsen.   The unstoppable… read more

Add another tool to your cooking arsenal

January 22, 2018 by
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  A good cook should have several tools in her or his toolkit for amping up flavors or adding zing to a dish. Umami boosters like soy sauce, fish sauce, and Parmesan cheese are commonly used to provide depth of flavor. But sometimes umami isn't what's missing, and you need to add a little tang. For those cases, says indexed… read more

Observer Food Monthly celebrates its 200th issue

January 21, 2018 by
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Observer Food Monthly is celebrating this January, and with good reason: this month it publishes its 200th issue. Befitting such a momentous occasion, the magazine is filled with recipes from celebrity chefs like Nigella Lawson, Nathan Outlaw, and Fergus Henderson.  For those who are unfamiliar with the publication, Observer Food Monthly is a supplement to the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. Published on the… read more

January 2018 Cookbook Roundup

January 21, 2018 by
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, the scope and breadth of 2017's cookbooks were epic. Both authors and publishers muscled through with Herculean efforts to deliver titles that were both beautiful and engaging. My love of cookbooks is my strongest weakness and our 2018 Preview Post has me, as always, looking forward. As humans, we prepare ourselves for what… read more

Autentico – Rolando Beramendi

January 21, 2018 by
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When I first picked up Rolando Beramendi's Autentico: Cooking Italian, the Authentic Way, I was instantly reminded of why Italian food is loved worldwide: simple elegance. Rolando is an importer and connoisseur of the finest ingredients from Italy which is reflected beautifully in this book, his guide to Italian food. Manicaretti, his company, is a frequent winner of awards and… read more

Influential French chef Paul Bocuse dies at 91

January 20, 2018 by
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Paul Bocuse, the French chef whose influence on the world of fine dining was incalculable, has died at the age of 91, according to the BBC. The chef is best known outside of his native France as the fouder of the Bocuse d'Or international cooking competition.  Bocuse led the wave of chefs exploring what became known as nouvelle cuisine, a… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

January 20, 2018 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

Learning about an ingredient the hard way

January 19, 2018 by
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  It all started with a trip to the newly-opened gourmet market. The small space it occupied in a charming old exposed-brick storefront was packed with an array of locally-grown produce and ingredients not frequently seen in our small town. Naturally, this unexpected variety made me almost giddy. I loaded up my basket with all manner of interesting produce, grains,… read more

Looking back at a Cold War cookbook

January 18, 2018 by
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Tensions ran high in Berlin during the summer of 1948. The first crisis of what would become known as the Cold War was happening in the war-torn capital of Germany, as the Soviets had cut off rail and road access to the city, and severely rationed its electricity and water. They hoped to drive away the Westerners who were helping… read more

Patricia Heaton’s Food for Family and Friends

January 18, 2018 by
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Most of us know Patricia Heaton, the actress, from her hit shows, Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, as well as other tv and movie roles. It was in October 2015 when Patricia Heaton Parties aired on the Food Network that we learned the busy mother of four also has a passion for cooking and entertaining.  On February 6th, Patricia Heaton's Food for Family and… read more

Major layoffs at Saveur Magazine

January 17, 2018 by
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  Saveur ranks as the one of the most popular magazines in the EYB Library. We've often linked to articles on the magazine's website in our blog posts, and we've featured the magazine in our monthly newsletter. This high level of interest in Saveur by our Members makes today's news about layoffs at the magazine all the more distressing.  Editor-in-Chief… read more

I Heart Rome – Maria Pasquale

January 17, 2018 by
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I Heart Rome: Recipes & Stories from the Eternal City by Maria Pasquale is a guided tour with beautiful food and location photography, classic recipes, and stories from the Italian capital. Profiles of food purveyors and chefs told along with quirky stories and glorious pictures, take the reader on an inspiring journey through the Rome that tourists rarely get to… read more

Honey & Spice – Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich

January 17, 2018 by
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  Bear with me, I'm a little giddy. Those two wonderfully kind people pictured above, Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, are the married couple behind the wildly successful Honey & Co. Restaurant in London and are two of my favorite authors. Their first cookbook, Honey & Co. Food from the Middle East was the Sunday Times Food Book of the Year in the… read more

Like browned butter? Try toasted cream

January 16, 2018 by
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  Browned butter's ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary is nothing short of a miracle. The complex flavor that develops by heating the milk proteins adds depth to a variety of goods both sweet and savory. As Sohla El-Waylly of Serious Eats shows us, this amazing transformation also works with cream.  Of course, once you think about it… read more

Made in Vietnam – Tracey Lister & Andreas Pohl

January 16, 2018 by
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This week I am going to bring you several promotions on books that take you around the world with delicious bites in follow up to my Globetrotting through your cookbook library.  First up, we have Made in Vietnam: Homestyle Recipes from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh by Tracey Lister and Andreas Pohl (a reissue of their 2014 title Real Vietnamese Cooking). This vibrant… read more

Make cheese, not war

January 15, 2018 by
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  Since the end of the Cold War, military weapons stockpiles have been shrinking in size. This reduction in arms means that huge storage facilities - many of them underground bunkers - are being decommissioned. While rich people are converting missile silos in the American Midwest to upscale doomsday prep condos, companies in Switzerland have found a much better use… read more

Globetrotting through your cookbook library

January 14, 2018 by
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This weekend is one of administrative work but the urge to write had to be answered. While I believe my love of cookbooks started from wanting to be better than what had been drilled into me as a child, it blossomed due to my need to explore other cultures that interested me. I didn't want to become a close-minded recluse… read more

Australian food blog awards announced

January 14, 2018 by
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  Just over a week ago, we learned the winners of the restaurant awards given by the Australian Good Food & Travel Guide. The AGFG has also announced its picks for the top 10 Australian food blogs.  Several of the blogs are focused on restaruant reviews, like the Melbourne-based Eat and Be Merry. This blog is a group effort, featuring friends… read more

Grow Cook Nourish by Darina Allen

January 13, 2018 by
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Darina Allen runs the world-renowned cooking school at Ballymaloe in County Cork, Ireland. She founded the school with her brother, Rory O'Connell, in 1983 and since then has authored many cookery books. Besides running the school with her brother, her daughter-in-law, Rachel Allen, also teaches there and lives nearby.  The family connection travels back to when Darina (O'Connell then) started as a… read more

René Redzepi prepares to open the new Noma

January 13, 2018 by
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  René Redzepi was living the dream: two Michelin stars plus many other accolades for a destination restaurant where you couldn't get a reservation for months. After sitting at or near the top of every worldwide restaurant ranking for several years, the chef closed the doors of Noma early last year and announced that he was moving the restaurant to a… read more

Meet the baker behind the beautiful pies of Instagram

January 12, 2018 by
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  Internet fame can be overwhelming and fickle, as Lauren Ko is discovering. Ko is the baker who has quickly developed a huge following - over 100,000 people follow lokokitchen on Instagram - over her intricately decorated pies. Even though most of the comments she has received are positive, a few people have sent her hate mail.  In Ko's interview… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

January 12, 2018 by
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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

Your cookbook collection could be worth more than you think

January 11, 2018 by
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  When you think of collectible cookbooks, you probably consider volumes like a first edition of Joy of Cooking or a signed copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, both of which are highly sought after books. But these aren't the only cookbooks that are worth collecting. According to Food & Wine, many other volumes may be valuable as well.… read more

Smoking Hot & Cold by Charlotte Pike

January 11, 2018 by
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Smoking Hot & Cold: Techniques and Recipes for Smoked Meat, Seafood, Dairy, and Vegetables by Charlotte Pike provides nearly 100 recipes to add flavor and depth to our dishes in the form of smoke. Of course, we are all familiar with smoking proteins but what about smoking vegetables and condiments or even dessert? Charlotte has us covered with chapters covering Fish,… read more

Cookbook Dreams

January 11, 2018 by
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The last week I've been busy adding 2018 titles to the library, editing them, writing up a few promotions and wishing for more time to cook from all the great cookbooks that I already own. Even with my embarrassment of riches in the cookbook department, I keep thinking about all the books that I wish would be written. Every few… read more
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