Pride month, EYBD Previews, recipes and more

In the United States and most parts of the world, Pride Month is celebrated in June – a celebration and commemoration of LGBTQIA+ pride. This week’s roundup will highlight books released in 2025 by LGBTQIA+ authors. Please note this is not a complete list.

What Is Queer Food?: How We Served a Revolution by John Birdsall is the celebrated food writer’s expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture. Here Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channeling the twin forces of criticism and cultural history to propel readers into the kitchens, restaurants, swirling party-houses, and humming interior lives of James Baldwin, Alice B. Toklas, Truman Capote, Esther Eng, and others who left an indelible mark on the culinary world from the margins. Queer food is brunch quiche à la Craig Claiborne, Richard Olney’s ecstatic salade composée, and Rainbow Ice-Box Cake from Ernest Matthew Mickler’s White Trash Cooking. It’s the intention surrounding a meal, the circumstances behind it, the people gathered around the table. EVENTS

Other titles that have been published or are soon to be released:

• Salsa Daddy: Dip Your Way into Mexican Cooking by Rick Martinez
• In the Kusina: My Seasonal Filipino Cooking by Woldy Reyes EVENTS
• Accidentally on Purpose by Kristen Kish 
• Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip by B. Dylan Hollis EVENTS
• Potluck Desserts: Joyful Recipes to Share with Pride by Justin Burke EVENTS
• French Bakes Made Simple – From Macaron to Millefeuille and More by Edd Kimber – Publication date June 10th, 2025.
• Flavour Heroes: 15 Modern Pantry Ingredients to Amplify Your Cooking by Gurdeep Loyal EVENTS – Publication date June 19th, 2025.
• Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine by Sami Tamimi EVENTS – Publication date June 19th, 2025 (UK) and July 15th (US).
• Cold Canning: An Easier Way to Preserve the Seasons Without Hot Water Processing by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough – Publication date July 29th, 2025.
• Every Day Coupetails by Brian Hart Hoffman and Brooke Bell – Publication date August 26th, 2025.
• Italianish – Modern Twists on Classic Italian Flavors by Danny Freeman – Publication date August 26th, 2025.
• Let’s Party: Recipes and Menus for Celebrating Every Day by Dan Pelosi – September 2nd, 2025.
• All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now by Ruby Tandoh -Publication date September 4th, 2025 (UK) and September 9th, 2025 (US).
• Cook Like a King: Recipes from My California Chinese Kitchen by Chef Melissa King – September 9th, 2025.
• It’s Time to Bake Cookies by Brian Hart Hoffman – Publication date September 23rd, 2025.
• Dinner Party Animal: Recipes to Make Every Day a Celebration by Jake Cohen – Publication date September 30th, 2025.
• Ready for Dessert, Revised Edition: My Best Recipes by David Lebovitz – Publication date September 30th, 2025.
• Sure Thing Desserts: Truly Perfect Versions of Everyday Classics by Matt Lewis – Publication date October 14th, 2025.
• Recipes from the American South by Michael W. Twitty – Publication date October 15th, 2025.
• Cookies: The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat by Vaughn Vreeland and New York Times Cooking – Publication date October 28th, 2025.

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The last few week on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Ranking the best cookbooks of all time
• You can pry my croissant from my cold, dead hands
• Getting to know your gingers
• The struggle to spell
• The rise of bakery tourism
• Splish-splash: What is the best method for washing your produce?
• Too many onions?
• Amanda Hesser leaving Food52
• Kitchen analysis paralysis
• Pasta: the long and short of it
• Reduce, recycle – but don’t reuse

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

• For the Love of Lemons by Letitia Clark – Giveaway (US/UK)
• Balli Balli – Cookbook Giveaway and Quick Bites (US/CA/UK)
• Taste Canada Awards 2025 longlist released
• May 2025 New Cookbook Review
• May 2025 EYB Cookbook Club Summary
• June 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary – please note the addition of local cookbook clubs – updating this post frequently as I find more
• 2025 Cookbook Preview Post (updated)
• Calendar of worldwide events (updated with these events – and others):
  • David’s Bookshop – Letchworth
  • Topping and Company
  • Divertimenti – London
  • Diana Henry – Around the Table
  • Gurdeep Loyal – Flavour Heroes
  • Yasmin Khan – Sabzi
  • Sami Tamimi – Boustany
  • Rebecca Firkser – Galette
  • Salt Water Farm – Lincolnville ME (Annemarie Ahearn)
  • Omnivore Books – San Francisco CA
  • The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI
  • Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR
• Cookbook deals are updated when time permits so check that post for new sales – the publisher links automatically update and please see the ICYMI post.

Jenny and the EYB Team

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Recently Indexed Titles

Our team of member and pro indexers are working hard indexing titles, both new and old. Below are just a selection of highlighted titles that were recently indexed. ckbk titles notated as such – for more information on ckbk see Jane’s post. Remember to view the most current indexed titles – they will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

• Sunny Days, Taco Nights by Enrique Olvera and Alonso Ruvalcaba
• Bone Daddies: The Cookbook by Ross Shonhan and Tom Moxon
• Paul Gayler’s Sauce Book by Paul Gayler ckbk
• The Baker’s Book: Favourite Recipes, Kitchen Wisdom, Shared by Bakers You Love by Ruby Goss
• The Chefs of The Times by Michalene Busico
• Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip by B. Dylan Hollis EVENTS
• Swedish Breads and Pastries by Jan Hedh
• The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
• Pretty Delicious – Simple, Modern Mediterranean, Served with Style by Alia and Radwa Elkaffas
• For the Love of Lemons: Italian-Inspired, Sweet and Savoury Recipes by Letitia Clark EVENTS
• Setting a Place for Us by Hawa Hassan EVENTS
• Foolproof Freezer: 60 Fuss-Free Meals that Make the Most of Your Freezer by Rebecca Woods

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Member Photo of the Week

Green tea financiers from Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes by David Lebovitz submitted by Member anya_sf

Note: Ready for Dessert, Revised Edition: My Best Recipes will be released on September 30th, 2025.

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Featured Online Recipe

Narangi salad from Diaspora Co. by Asma Khan

Add the Diaspora Co. blog to your Bookshelf for an additional 241 recipes

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Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

We currently have 8,914 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.

Rustic herb and garlic crackers and Tomato basil crackers from Preserving the Seasons: A Guide to Canned, Jammed, Frozen, Dehydrated, Freeze-Dried, Quick-Pickled, and Infused Produce, Herbs, and Flowers by Holly Capelle – Publication date July 29th, 2025. Be sure to check out our full EYBD Preview here.

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 2,111th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: All Preview recipes are indexed, whether the full book is indexed or not. Any Preview recipe can be added to your Bookshelf.

• 6 recipes from Craveable – All I Want to Eat by Seema Pankhania US Publication date July 1st, 2025 – published in UK in 2024.
• 3 recipes from Dolci Italiani: Desserts, Cakes & Other Sweet Bakes from Italy by Ursula Ferrigno – Publication date June 10th, 2025.
• 6 recipes from Upside Down Cooking: Layer, Bake, Flip – A Brand New Way to Cook in One Pan by Dominic Franks
• 3 recipes from Modern Indian – Small Plates, Big Flavours, Fabulous Feasts by Cyrus Todiwala

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Cookbook Giveaways
Click on the Blue Link below to enter

• Enter our US/CA giveaway to win one of two copies of Umma – A Korean Mom’s Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes by Sarah and Nam Soon Ahn. Contest ends on June 14th, 2025.
• Enter our US giveaway to win one of two copies of Salt Sugar MSG: Recipes and Stories from a Cantonese American Home by Calvin Eng. Contest ends on June 15th, 2025.
• Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one copy of Bake From Scratch, Volume Nine: Artisan Recipes for the Home Baker by Brian Hart Hoffman. Contest ends on June 18th, 2025.

The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways including those open worldwide and to other regions.

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