TL;DR

August 30, 2025 by
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Remember food blogs? You know, the ones that had charming stories that ultimately led to a recipe that you wanted to try? It seems that in our increasingly fast-paced world, reading a few paragraphs takes too much time. In the last few years much ado has been made about food blogs being a waste of time and that bloggers should… read more

Seasonal shifts

August 29, 2025 by
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A few days ago, we had a brief taste of autumn when temperatures dipped to unseasonable highs and lows. While we are still weeks away from true autumn, this short spell of cool weather created a shift in how I thought about cooking and baking. I have written before about how changes in the weather can provoke anticipation for certain… read more

How do you like them pommes (de terre)?

August 28, 2025 by
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Please forgive me for the bad pun on the old saying "how do you like them apples?", but I just couldn't resist. But it is for a good reason - the ranking of 10 potato dishes from worst to best, by Andrea McGinniss of The Sydney Morning Herald's Good Food. This is bound to be controversial, because everyone is going… read more

August 2025 New Cookbook Review

August 27, 2025 by
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Are you ready for our favorite time of year Cookbooktober season? August ushers in the best time of the year. We have loads of new releases to ease us into the heavy months of September, October and November. Our 2025 Cookbook Preview Post is continually updated and I will soon begin our 2026 post! Don’t forget that you can create a wishlist and share… read more

When I dip, you dip, we dip

August 26, 2025 by
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French dip sandwiches, which like most things labeled "French" in the US, are not French, are currently having a moment, says Eater's Andrea Strong. She chronicles the current crop of offerings in New York City, which is not the birthplace of the revered 'wich that was allegedly cooked up first in Los Angeles. Strong says that New York's “roast beef… read more

Persiana Easy – Cookbook Giveaway

August 26, 2025 by
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Enter our US/CA giveaway to win one of three copies Persiana Easy by Sabrina Ghayour. Please note the author's EVENTS to see if she will be in your area. This title will be featured in our EYB Cookbook Club in November.  Sabrina Ghayour has written a total of eight cookbooks beginning with Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond in 2014.… read more

New blog index: Ali Slagle’s 40 Ingredients Forever

August 25, 2025 by
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We have today added a new blog index, Ali Slagle's 40 Ingredients Forever. Ali Slagle is a Brooklyn-based recipe developer, the author of I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes, contributor to The New York Times, editor, food and prop stylist, and project manager. She cut her teeth on the editorial and creative teams at Food52… read more

Food news antipasto

August 25, 2025 by
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It's easy to get excited about cookbooks, so I never really thought about why so many titles included exclamation marks, like Dolci!, Galette!, and You Got This! Nina Moskowitz of Epicurious has thought about it and asked several authors and editors why they included exclamation marks in their titles. For Diane Morrisey, author of You Got This!, the exclamation point… read more

Food festivals

August 23, 2025 by
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One of the best things about living near farming areas is the abundance of festivals that revolve around a certain crop or food. My friend has made it his mission to seek out as many of these events as possible, and he has identified over a dozen festivals within a few hours' drive of the Twin Cities. There an Apple… read more

CookShelf app, GBBO returns, IACP 2025 Cookbook Award finalists, events and more

August 22, 2025 by
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A mobile app has been a top Eat Your Books member request for years, and it's finally here! We're calling the app CookShelf, and you can subscribe in the app, or access it as part of your Eat Your Books Premium membership. You can download the app on the Apple App Store here and on Google Play Store here. If you're… read more

IACP 2025 Cookbook Award finalists

August 21, 2025 by
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The IACP announced the finalists for its 2025 Awards, which includes cookbooks along with digital media, food writing, food photography & styling, and special recognition awards. The IACP Cookbook Awards honors "the authors, publishers, and other contributors behind the best cookbooks published each year." There are fourteen categories plus a cookbook of the year. The categories shifted slightly in 2025… read more

Tomato, tomahto

August 20, 2025 by
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Most cooks use cherry tomatoes and grape tomatoes interchangeably and likely many people believe they are essentially the same. However, they actually have different flavor profiles and textures, says Serious Eat's Brandon Summers-Miller. He breaks down the differences, noting which type is best suited to various dishes. Roast tomato and asparagus tart with rosemary from The Guardian Feast supplement by… read more

The Giveaway Roundup

August 20, 2025 by
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All of our current giveaways are now on one convenient roundup which will be continually updated! If you are having any difficulties with entering our giveaways, please see our step-by-step help post. Giveaways are tagged by the countries the contests are open to. Bookmark the searches below for easy reference! To enter our contests click on the blue link beneath the… read more

Licorice: love it or loathe it?

August 19, 2025 by
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In her Substack newsletter, Dorie Greenspan just posted about licorice, which as she notes is a divisive flavor. Just like cilantro, it seems to be a love it or hate it item. For some the taste aversion stems from having licorice flavored medicine as a child, but for others it seems to be built in, although scientists have not yet… read more

The Great British Bake Off/Baking Show – Season 16 Returns

August 19, 2025 by
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Mark your calendars and set your recording devices - the kick-off date for the next season of The Great British Bake Off is set - September 2nd at 8pm on Channel 4 in the UK. As in past years, the show is planned to be streamed on Netflix on the Friday following the Tuesday airing. Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond… read more

August 2025 EYB Cookbook Club Summary

August 18, 2025 by
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Each month we allow posting in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club from any cookbook, magazine or blog and we also offer one featured cookbook -most months. We hope that sharing our favorite recipes will help our Members discover new cookbooks and recipes to try. Also please see our August 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary which is now organized by location and includes… read more

Food news antipasto

August 17, 2025 by
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Renowned beer historian Martyn Cornell died at the beginning of June. His friend Steve McCubbin's heartfelt obituary for Cornell was just published in The Guardian. McCubbin shares Cornell's long and storied career, and recognized his salty character. The last post Cornell made before he died illustrates this: “If I read once more that porter got its name because it was… read more

Dolci Italiani – Cookbook Giveaway

August 17, 2025 by
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Enter our US/CA/UK giveaway to win one of two copies of Dolci Italiani: Desserts, Cakes & Other Sweet Bakes from Italy by Ursula Ferrigno. Almost exactly a year ago, we featured a Quick Bites with Ursula and if you missed it - head over to that link to find our more about this prolific cookbook author. Ursula's latest cookbook is… read more

Former Food52 exec stole a fortune from the company

August 16, 2025 by
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A former media executive for Food52 who managed production of the brand's partnership deals stole a whopping $270,000 USD from the company, according to an exposé published in The Cut. (That article is paywalled but you can read a synopsis here.) When you read heartbreaking stories of food writers losing their jobs to layoffs and entire publications shuttering due to… read more

Dianne Jacob talks cookbooks on CookShelf

August 16, 2025 by
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The latest installment in the CookShelf Substack features award-winning writer  Dianne Jacob. (In case you missed the announcement, Katie has launched a free Substack newsletter in connection with the forthcoming CookShelf app.) Dianne coaches people on how to write a winning cookbook proposal (where there is a 1-2 percent acceptance rate) and how to improve the quality and effectiveness of their writing. … read more

September 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary

August 15, 2025 by
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As our members know, each month we offer several cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around world and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might want to cook or bake something other than our choices.  I will update this post as clubs make their additional choices. Something that has… read more

Meat-free no more

August 13, 2025 by
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In 2024, Daniel Humm released Eleven Madison Park - The Plant-Based Chapter, which celebrated the transformation of the former World's Best Restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, into the first plant-based kitchen to earn three Michelin stars. When the restaurant returned to service in 2021 following the lifting of restaurant restrictions due to the pandemic, Humm envisioned a totally different sort of… read more

In for Dinner, Author Article and Cookbook Giveaway

August 13, 2025 by
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Enter our US/UK giveaway to win one of four copies of In for Dinner: 101 Delicious & Affordable Recipes to Batch Cook, Share and Enjoy by Rosie Kellett. Be sure to check out the author's US events here. For the past five years, home cook Rosie Kellett has been living communally with six others, making delicious seasonal food on a… read more

Kewpie celebrates a century

August 13, 2025 by
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Kewpie mayonnaise, the Japanese mayonnaise with devotees around the globe, celebrates its 100th birthday this year. Its creator, Toichiro Nakashima, was inspired to create the condiment after visiting the United States in 1915 as an intern for Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce. There he was exposed to mayonnaise, which was having a moment in American cuisine. After returning to… read more

Food news antipasto

August 10, 2025 by
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Less than a week after Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff told a reporter that he did not anticipate further layoffs in the company, 15 Eater staff members were laid off, according to Vox Media union. In a post on Bluesky, one of my favorite writers on the site, Amy McCarthy, shared that she was one of the unlucky ones. The… read more
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