“Lost” Gourmet recipes are published

December 13, 2018 by
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When Gourmet magazine announced in October of 2009 that its upcoming November issue would be its last, long-time subscribers were both shocked and saddened by the news. Shifting tastes and declining advertising revenue were a double whammy from which the magazine could not recover. Although the Gourmet name lives on through the Epicurious website and a few special-interest publications, readers… read more

Nigella Lawson celebrates home cooking

December 12, 2018 by
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It's always a delight to hear from our favorite authors, especially those as charming as Nigella Lawson. Recently she sat down with Francis Lam of The Splendid Table to discuss several topics ranging from the definition of a pudding to her life in food to her views on home cooking. Part of the reason Nigella has remained popular in over 20… read more

Bread is back

December 11, 2018 by
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In recent years, bread's reputation took some hard hits. It was maligned by health gurus who proclaimed carbohyrdates to be the biggest threat to health since saturated fats. Much like butter, however, bread is back with a vengeance. A listing of Facebook's top food trends for 2019 shows that bread is leading the pack. Part of bread's return has to… read more

Spice support: saffron

December 10, 2018 by
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You probably already know that saffron is the world's most expensive spice, but have you ever seen a saffron harvest? Through a series of photos, The Guardian guides us through the painstaking process in the saffron fields of the Patsiouras family in Greece, where the crocus that brings us the rare spice is being grown in ever larger numbers.  As… read more

An unconventional CEO pens a cookbook

December 6, 2018 by
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Celebrity cookbooks are not new, but one that passed through my newsfeed today was a bit different from the rest. Usually celebrities who pen cookbooks are in the entertainment industry and posses a huge following on social media. Since they are already in the spotlight, they don't mind letting people into their daily lives, which means cooking. Today's news was… read more

Where there’s smoke, there’s flavor

December 5, 2018 by
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In one of the teaser's for the Netflix series The Final Table, you can catch a glimpse of one of the judges lifting up a glass cloche as a small billow of smoke is released. The world's top chefs have long used smoke in various ways to add flavor to dishes, whether indirectly through a smoking process or by using… read more

Has food become too pretentious?

November 30, 2018 by
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It's time again for the predictions of trends for the coming year. According one such list, up-and-coming food items for 2019 include calamansi juice, lichen, and seaweed. Those trends, which feature esoteric, rare, and expensive foods, don't sit well with The Guardian's Poppy Noor. She wonders why food has become so pretentious.  Noor laments the trends toward exotic ingredients that… read more

Running into a recipe paywall

November 26, 2018 by
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The EYB Library is a wonderful search tool to find a recipe that meets all of your requirements, whether they are for particular ingredients, meeting a dietary restriction, or excluding a certain type of dish. It can be exciting to discover a recipe that is exactly what you are looking for, and you squeal with delight (or is that just… read more

Meet the illustrator for GBBO

November 23, 2018 by
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When The Great British Bake Off made its move from BBC to Channel 4, fans lamented that only one of the show's personalities, Paul Hollywood, was going to remain with the program. Truth is, there was another original cast member that made the switch, although no one ever saw his face. Tom Hovey, the artist who produces all of those… read more

What to do with those Thanksgiving leftovers

November 22, 2018 by
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The feast is over and our bellies are full, and perhaps we ate a little too much but oh it was so tasty. However, in a couple of days we'll be as weary of Thanksgiving food as our non-US members are of hearing about our feast day. Very soon we'll be standing and staring into the refrigerator wondering what to… read more

Chefs say skip the appetizer this Thanksgiving

November 21, 2018 by
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Many of us in the US are prepping well into the evening for the big food holiday - the second biggest in this country, second only to Christmas - and we have tons of last-minute details that will keep us busy right up to meal time. Likely one of those details is putting together the appetizers served up before everyone… read more

Spice support: rosemary

November 17, 2018 by
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"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance," says the tortured Ophelia in Act 4, Scene 5 of Shakepeare's Hamlet. Greek scholars reportedly wore a garland of the herb on their heads to aid their memory during exams, and recent studies have shown that rosemary can indeed boost memory performance. But even if rosemary doesn't actually help you remember anything, its heady fragrance is… read more

Are you brave enough to attempt the turducken of pies?

November 16, 2018 by
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Some culinary creations are a stroke of genius - take the Cronut, for instance. Others, well, leave you scratching your head wondering why. A layered combination of pie and cake baked together in a lumbering tower is a concoction that belongs in the latter category, yet it has developed a cult following.  Meet the turducken of desserts: the pumpecapple piecake (pictured… read more

Turkey brining has lost its luster

November 12, 2018 by
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Like many home cooks, for years I performed a Thanksgiving ritual every November. I would scrub out an oversized bucket, (often a pickle bucket that I pleaded for at a fast food restaurant), fill it with a brine that always took longer to make than I remembered, and plunge an ungainly turkey into it, trying not to slosh salt water… read more

Gift Guide for Cookbook Lovers, Cooks and Bakers 2018

November 11, 2018 by
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The season of giving is upon us. All year, I've been making notes for this gift guide to share with you books and products that I have bought, reviewed and love. My various gift guides from years' past can be found at the links below. Any cookbooks on my Fall Cookbooks preview post, I whole-heartedly recommend especially Israeli Soul, Everyday Dorie, and Estela. These titles are must-have… read more

First Annual EYB Holiday Cookie Contest

November 10, 2018 by
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I love collecting cookie recipes - cherished family recipes and  newspaper contest compilations are my favorites. I'm always on the lookout for something new and exciting to try so every holiday season, I snatch up all the holiday baking magazines and make plans to make hundreds of cookies.    This year, I thought it would be fun to share our original… read more

Pink gin is in – but is it any good?

November 9, 2018 by
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It's well known that millenials like all things pink: pink clothing, pink wine (rosé is all the current darling in that demographic), and all kinds of pink foods. Now another item is joining the fray in taking on a blushing hue to appeal to millenials - pink gin.  Unlike the neon vodkas and liqueurs that dominated in the early 2000s, pink… read more

Are we really cooking everything wrong?

November 8, 2018 by
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No doubt you have seen this phrase, or a variation of it, in your social media news feed: "You've been cooking [insert food name] wrong the whole time!" When I type"you've been cooking" into the Google search bar, the first five items that pop up are all about being wrong - apparently you've been cooking pasta wrong, along with potatoes,… read more

North Carolina chefs contribute to flood relief efforts

November 7, 2018 by
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When Hurricane Florence battered the Carolinas in the southeastern US, videos and news reports depicted the devastation that the storm wrought on the coastal communities directly in the path of the hurricane. Inland areas were also affected by the flooding that resulted from the record amounts of rain that poured down nonstop for days following the storm, but they did not… read more

Celebrating a classic baking book

November 4, 2018 by
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Some cookbooks become icons that are passed down from generation to generation. One such tome is the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book, first published in 1990 and reissued in 2011 as a collector's edition. The book has inspired countless people to attempt baking a birthday cake for their child, eventually passing the book down to their grown children who… read more

Black Friday deals without the wait

November 2, 2018 by
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Halloween is over so that means we can turn our full attention to the remainder of the holidays to celebrate until year's end. For us in the US, that means Thanksgiving in addition to the December special events. In the windup to those dates, there will be plenty of cooking, baking, and of course shopping. Most of us wait (im)patiently… read more

Alexa now talks turkey

November 1, 2018 by
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Since 1981, turkey producer Butterball has manned a call-in help line for people who have questions about cooking their Thanksgiving bird. The service, called the Turkey Talk-Line has helped countless harried cooks avoid potential turkey disasters. This year the Talk-Line is getting an upgrade as users can now use their Alexa-enabled device to ask for assistance.  For the first time, users… read more

How to use your leftover Halloween pumpkin

October 30, 2018 by
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Many people carve pumpkins as decorations for Halloween. Some of us even roast the seeds that we excavate from the interiors, but how many actually use the flesh of the pumpkin once the holiday has passed? Yes, you can eat jack o'lantern pumpkin says the Guardian, which gives us several ideas for ways to make use of the parts of… read more

Ina Garten’s role in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement

October 28, 2018 by
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Ina Garten has a nickname for her favorite roast chicken recipe, calling it "engagement chicken". She says it earned that appellation "because whenever you make it somebody asks you to marry them." To be sure, there isn't a proposal every time someone makes the recipe, but it did play a part in at least one famous engagement. After Prince Harry popped the question… read more

Spice Support: paprika

October 27, 2018 by
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It's been a little while, but I'm back with another edition of Spice Support. Today we are exploring paprika, which according to the in-house spice expert at Pereg Gourmet Spices, is the fourth most consumed spice in the world. It is a key ingredient in a number of cuisines, from Mexican rices to classic Hungarian goulash to Italian sausages. Paprika… read more
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