A new life for a classic cookbook

February 23, 2016 by
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Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz was one of the leading cookbook authors of her generation and wrote numerous cookery books including The New Complete Book of Mexican Cooking. A culinary anthropologist and food historian, Ortiz served as a principal consultant for the Time Life Foods of the World series, as well as a regular contributor to Gourmet magazine. She died in New… read more

Oysters and their taste of place

February 9, 2016 by
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Writer Cynthia Nims is a lifelong resident of the Northwest US who reveled in growing up surrounded by great food. After studying cooking at Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in France where she received the Grand Diplôme d'Etudes Culinaires, Cynthia worked on numerous cookbooks with the school's president, Anne Willan. She is the author of ten cookbooks and was previously… read more

January 2016 cookbook roundup

January 28, 2016 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. This is a quiet month following the holiday push by publishers. This month's notable tomes include several… read more

Best selling cookbooks of 2015

January 28, 2016 by
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Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2015.  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.  They are very… read more

Healthy food should be delicious

January 27, 2016 by
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Gizzi Erskine is probably best known for being a presenter on the British television show Cook Yourself Thin and for writing the show's companion cookbook. Gizzi trained at the prestigious Leith's School of Food and Wine before going on to work at BBC Good Food magazine. She is the food columnist for Company magazine, wrrites for The Sunday Times, and has contributed to Marie Claire, Instyle,… read more

The perfect prescription

January 20, 2016 by
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Angelo Acquista, M.D. is board certified physician and a clinical instructor in medicine at Northshore-LIJ University Hospital in Manhattan. He grew up eating in his native Sicily and this culinary background, coupled with his desire to help his patients improve their health, spurred Dr. Acquista to "prescribe" recipes to his patients for nutritious and flavorful home-cooked meals highlighting ingredients from his… read more

Sara Dickerman’s Kitchen Inventory

January 10, 2016 by
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Many people attempt new healthy eating regimes to start the new year. Often this is a short-lived effort, as the meal plans leave food lovers feeling deprived and unfulfilled. Chef and food writer Sara Dickerman attempted to rectify this situation, creating a popular healthy eating plan on the Bon Appétit website. What began as an interactive post-holiday plan that puts an emphasis on home… read more

The favorite cookbooks of 2015

December 22, 2015 by
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For the seventh year running we have searched the world for best cookbook lists.  And for the fourth time, Ottolenghi has the most loved cookbook in the world - Nopi. This time his co-author is Ramael Scully, the chef at Nopi.   Check out our Best of the Best page for all the other top choices including charts from the… read more

November 2015 cookbook roundup

November 24, 2015 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. November is a bit quieter than October but retains a few of the same trends including an… read more

Buy a gift certificate and win a free lifetime membership

November 24, 2015 by
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You know how useful you find Eat Your Books? How about sharing that benefit with all your friends and family who love to cook? Gift certificates are available for one, two and three year memberships. And every gift certificate you buy between now and Dec 31 will enter you into a drawing to win one free lifetime EYB membership -… read more

An excerpt from Alana Chernila’s new cookbook

November 11, 2015 by
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Alana Chernila writes, cooks, sells fresh vegetables, and teaches cheese making. She created the blog Eating From The Ground Up in 2008. In her second cookbook, The Homemade Kitchen, Alana explores making pantry staples such as chèvre, tofu, kefir, kimchi, preserved lemons, and also provides recipes and ideas for using them. Leite's Culinaria recently praised The Homemade Kitchen, saying "The… read more

A life of food, wine, and travel

November 4, 2015 by
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Roberta Muir's passion for food, wine and foreign culture has led her on adventures in Europe, Africa, Turkey, South East Asia and Australia. Since 1997 she has managed Australia's leading cooking school, Sydney Seafood School at Sydney Fish Market. A restaurant reviewer and trained cheese judge, she assisted Australian chef Janni Kyritsis with his cookbook Wild Weed Pie, a Lifetime of… read more

October 2015 cookbook roundup

October 29, 2015 by
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Mark Bittman's Kitchen Matrix by Mark Bittman: For years, Bittman shared his formulas, recipes, and kitchen improvisations in his popular New York Times Eat column, in which an ingredient or essential technique is presented in different variations in a bold matrix. In this book, Mark's matrices come together to create a large collection of flexible recipes. Once indexed, this book… read more

A chance to buy some of Amanda Hesser’s cookbooks

October 17, 2015 by
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Amanda Hesser of Food52 and author of the popular cookbook The Essential New York Times Cookbook is selling off her excess cookbooks from her stoop in Brooklyn. All proceeds will go to a food charity.  Amanda is also giving away home-baked cookies.  If you are in the Brooklyn area on Sunday afternoon (Oct 18) from 3 to 4:30pm, drop by. Further… read more

Make someone’s day with a food gift

October 16, 2015 by
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Maggie Battista is the founder and director of Eat Boutique, an award-winning online boutique and story-driven recipe site. Along with selling an ever-changing collection of food gifts, hosting pop-up boutiques and hand-packing small batch food gifts for private clients, Maggie also wrote her first-ever cookbook featuring more than 100 recipes to make, wrap and share. That cookbook, Food Gift Love, was… read more

Excerpts from The Silver Spoon Quick and Easy Italian Recipes

October 7, 2015 by
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The Silver Spoon is the most influential and successful cookbook in Italy. Originally published in 1950, it became an instant classic. Translated and updated in 2005 by Phaidon, it is considered to be essential in every household. It was the first in a series of Silver Spoon-related cookbooks from Phaidon. The latest is The Silver Spoon: Quick and Easy Italian… read more

All-star dessert flavors

October 4, 2015 by
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Tish Boyle is the editor of Dessert Professional magazine and the former editor of Chocolatier. She is the author of several books on baking and pastry, including Diner Desserts, The Good Cookie, and The Cake Book. Her articles and recipes have appeared in such publications as the Fine Cooking and Food & Wine, and Every Day with Rachael Ray. An… read more

Everything fits in a tortilla

September 29, 2015 by
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Tacos rank high among the world's most popular foods. A new cookbook, Tacopedia by Deborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena, focuses on these delicious dishes and aims to be your comprehensive resource for all things taco. EYB has snagged an excerpt from the book, plus a link to a short video featuring the sights and sounds of tacos. You can… read more

September 2015 cookbook roundup

September 29, 2015 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf.  USA As the weather cools in the Northern Hemisphere, publication volume has been getting hotter. Several well-known chefs have… read more

Help for the picky eater problem

September 9, 2015 by
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Katie Workman was a kid who loved to cook, and a kid who loved cookbooks. She grew up teaching herself how to cook from The Silver Palate Cookbook, making bumpy homemade pasta following Marcella's Hazan's instructions in The Essentials of Italian Cooking to the letter, and asking for the entire Moosewood trilogy for holidays. She went on to pursue a… read more

Author interview with Amelia Saltsman

August 28, 2015 by
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Since the publication of her first book, The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook, Amelia Saltsman's fans have turned to her for fresh, intuitive, seasonal cooking. She is regularly sought out for her expertise by such national publications as Vegetarian Times, Bon Appetit, The Jewish Journal, and Cooking Light magazine. She has just released her second cookbook, The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen.… read more

Me & my cookbooks – Elizabeth Winslow

August 27, 2015 by
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We're pleased to present another installment of the "Me and my cookbooks" series. Many EYB members have told us they enjoy meeting members and special guests through this feature. We'd love to introduce more people, so if you'd like to be featured, just email us at [email protected]. EYB Member Elizabeth Winslow is a food writer, a successful entrepreneur, and a cookbook… read more

August 2015 cookbook roundup

August 26, 2015 by
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 Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. USA August sees a bit of an uptick volume, and a few small trends. Subjects on the… read more

Cookbook store profile – Kitchen Witch

August 25, 2015 by
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This is the latest installment of the EYB feature highlighting independent cookbook stores. We hope you will discover (or get reacquainted with) a store near your home - or plan a new target destination when you travel. We keep an ongoing list of cookbook stores but we'd love to learn about more - especially those treasured by our members. So… read more

The art of traditional Japanese preserving

August 11, 2015 by
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Nancy Singleton Hachisu moved from California to Japan in 1988, intending to stay for a year, learn Japanese, and return to the United States. Instead, she fell in love with a farmer, the culture, and the food, and has made the country her home. Nancy's first cookbook, Japanese Farm Food, offered readers a unique window into life on a Japanese… read more
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