Author Profile – Monica Bhide

November 21, 2016 by
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Monica Bhide is an award winning, bestselling fiction and internationally renowned cookbook author. She is known for sharing food, culture, mystery, and love in her writing. Having roots and experience in many places, Bhide inspires readers everywhere with present day stories which transcend cultural, chronological, geographical, economical, and religious borders. Bhide's short story collection, The Devil in Us, topped the list… read more

A Recipe for Cooking – Interview with Cal Peternell

November 15, 2016 by
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Cal Peternell grew up in New Jersey on a small farm and pursued a BFA in painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York. It wasn't until he was living in Italy with his wife, a fellow artist, that he was inspired to pursue a culinary career. After time at various acclaimed restaurants in San Francisco and Boston,… read more

Dorie’s Cookies – Dorie Greenspan

November 13, 2016 by
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Dorie's Cookies by Dorie Greenspan has moved up to the coveted spot of my favorite cookie book of all time. From the royal purple cover, inside pages that are speckled with cookie illustrations and full-page photographs with a retro feel - this book is a visual feast for the eyes. 170 unique and classic cookie recipes fill the 500 plus… read more

The Gourmet Kitchen – Jennifer Farley

November 10, 2016 by
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In The Gourmet Kitchen: Recipes from the Creator of Savory Simple home-cooked meals are elevated with unique and bold flavors. Jennifer Farley, the author, is also the creator of the blog, Savory Simple (451 recipes currently indexed on EYB) with almost half-a-million followers who eagerly await her new recipe posts. With recipes for Spicy Gochujang Chicken Wings, Asparagus and Sun-Dried Tomato… read more

The Grain Bowl – Author Article and Recipe

October 12, 2016 by
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Nik Williamson's debut cookbook, The Grain Bowl, is a collection of 90 heart-healthy recipes made with a variety of grains, seeds, rice and superfoods. Williamson is an expert on grains and creator of the now shuttered Porridge Café in London. He continues to innovate in the world of pop-up food events with his Three Bears Brunch. This title features sweet… read more

Interview with the authors of Samarkand

October 3, 2016 by
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The fascination with cookbooks that tell a tale of faraway lands, cultures and cuisines continues to gain momentum and I, for one, am thrilled with this growth.  Samarkand: Recipes and Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus is such a cookbook. The authors Caroline Eden and Eleanor Ford  share their love of this magical place in the pages of this title.… read more

Diana Henry works hard to make recipes effortless for us

September 30, 2016 by
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Looking at the most popular authors in the EYB Library you'll see plenty of restaurant chefs like Yotam Ottolenghi and television stars like Ina Garten. Their celebrity helps them reach a wide audience when they release a cookbook. A few authors, however, are popular with Members despite not having such a visible platform to promote their work. Diana Henry is… read more

Danielle Walker’s Against all Grain Celebrations

September 30, 2016 by
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Danielle Walker's Against all Grain: Celebrations is the popular blogger's third cookbook. Walker has built an impressive following delivering gluten-free, dairy-free, and paleo recipes to her readers. Against all Grain:  Delectable Paleo Recipes to Eat Well and Feel Great and Against all Grain: Meals Made Simple were both New York Times best sellers and we're sure Against all Grain: Celebrations will make that best… read more

Author Interview with Daphne Oz

September 20, 2016 by
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Affectionately called the Fresh Face of Healthy Living by her co-hosts of The Chew, Daphne Oz, has somehow found time to write another cookbook amidst a television career and two small children. The Happy Cook: 125 Recipes for Eating Every Day Like It's the Weekend istruly impressive. I am a fan of international flavors and Daphnehas packed global dishes in this collection… read more

Soup Swap Comforting Recipes to Make and Share

September 14, 2016 by
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Kathy Gunst is a food writer and the author of numerous cookbooks. She is the "Resident Chef" on Here and Now on WBUR, the NPR station in Boston. Kathy was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award in 2000 for her work on this show.  Her newest title, Soup Swap, is sure to make our chilly days deliciously warmer. Be sure to enter… read more

Author Interview with Marie Holm

September 12, 2016 by
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Marie Holm is a Danish food writer and cookbook author with a mission to bring back puddings. Her book Quivering Desserts & Other Puddings is presently out in Danish, English and German and she was recently filmed for Rick Stein's Long Weekends BBC TV Series. Marie Holm started out her career as a food journalist, then became a food critic and since… read more

Author interview with Angela Liddon

September 6, 2016 by
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For the past 6 years, award-winning blogger Angela Liddon has shared energizing, plant-based recipes on her blog Oh She Glows. Her goal is to inspire you to embrace more plant-based foods in your diet without feeling the least bit deprived. After publishing a successful first cookbook (The Oh She Glows Cookbook), Liddon decided to write a follow-up. This second book,… read more

Author interview with Kristin Donnelly

August 26, 2016 by
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Food & Wine-editor-turned-freelance-writer Kristin Donnelly calls her blog Eat Better Drink Better because that's what she aims to do most days. By better, Kristin isn't referring to some unattainable, lofty goal, but rather she means tastier, often healthier and more sustainable cooking. Kristin continues to write and develop recipes for Food & Wine as well as publications like Every Day… read more

A passion for Rome and its food

August 22, 2016 by
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Kristina Gill is the food and drinks editor at DesignSponge.com, a home and lifestyle site with over 1.2 million readers per month. Her original recipes, and those she hand-selects from celebrated authors, chefs, and readers have appeared weekly as the "In the Kitchen With" column since 2007. She is also a food and travel photographer. Kristina transferred to Rome in… read more

How to make leafy greens irresistable

August 8, 2016 by
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Acclaimed cookbook author and blogger Dana Jacobi combines healthy ingredients with creative twists. She is the award-winning author of fifteen cookbooks. When Williams-Sonoma wanted to feature healthy cooking, they asked her to write or co-author six books!  She has also written for publications, including O: The Oprah Magazine, Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, and The New York Times, and for 19 years,… read more

Excerpt from ‘Pure Delicious’

July 18, 2016 by
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Food blogger and author Heather Christo was once "openly skeptical about the very existence" of food allergies, but when her young daughter had repeated unexplained illnesses, she reluctantly came to the conclusion that food allergies could be the problem. After extensive testing, she learned that not only did her daughter, Pia, have many food allergies, but so did she and… read more

Author Q&A with Domenica Marchetti

July 15, 2016 by
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Domenica Marchetti is a food writer, recipe developer, and cooking teacher who specializes in Italian home cooking. She learned to cook from her Italian-born mother, who put her to work crafting capelletti, ravioli, and other Italian culinary delights as soon as she could see over the kitchen counter. A former newspaper reporter with a master's degree in journalism from Columbia… read more

Recipes for a life filled with food and love

June 29, 2016 by
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Béatrice Peltre is a food writer, stylist and photographer working out of her home studio in Boston. She is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Food Section, and her work has appeared in many publications. Her indexed blog, La Tartine Gourmande, is popular with EYB Members. Beatrice has just published her second cookbook, My French Family Table: Recipes for… read more

Q&A with the authors of Batch

June 27, 2016 by
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Joel MacCharles and Dana Harrison are the duo behind the popular website WellPreserved.ca. Dana's love of great food is only matched by her love for tasty design. She is the Creative Director at WellPreserved, where she makes sure everything looks as good as it tastes. Joel is a home cook and writer. He loves to cook a great meal, but beyond… read more

Following her culinary wanderlust

June 14, 2016 by
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Author Marie Simmons has won both James Beard and IACP Awards during her storied career, and her recipes and food articles have appeared in hundreds of magazines. For more than 18 years she wrote the Cooking For Health monthly column for Bon Appétit magazine and was a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the Contra Costa Times.… read more

Recipe excerpts from Clean Cakes by Henrietta Inman

May 26, 2016 by
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Henrietta Inman is a skilled pastry chef and owner of Henrietta Inman Pâtissière and Hen's Clean Cakes. After gaining a distinction in the Professional Pâtisserie Scholarship at Westminster Kingsway College, London, she worked in a number of award-winning kitchens including the Michelin-starred Lanesborough Hotel, London. Henrietta lives in Suffolk and does baking demonstrations, runs cookery classes and sells at farmers'… read more

Sharing the flavours of her childhood

May 26, 2016 by
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Sumayya Usmani was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and has lived in the UK for 10 years, first in London and now in Glasgow, Scotland. Always passionate about her heritage cuisine, she has grown up cooking the food she knows as Pakistani with the women of her family, and this kindled her love for cooking from an early age.… read more

Classic Spanish recipes for today’s busy cook

May 5, 2016 by
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  Spain's most popular cookbook, 1080 Recipes, was originally published in 1972, and sold over 3 million copies in Spain. That volume, along with its sister title The Book of Tapas, were both written by the authorities on Spanish cooking: the late Simone Ortega and her daughter Inés. Now a new book, Quick and Easy Spanish Recipes, culls the quickest… read more

Author interview – Salma Hage

April 26, 2016 by
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Salma Hage, a Lebanese housewife from Mazarat Tiffah (Apple Hamlet) in the mountains of the Kadisha Valley in north Lebanon, has over 50 years experience of family cooking. She learned to cook from her mother, mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, and, having helped bring up her nine brothers and two sisters, often cooked for the whole family. She has also spent many… read more

Can we all sit down to dinner together?

April 18, 2016 by
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Anna Thomas wrote her first cookbook, The Vegetarian Epicure, while she was a film student at UCLA, and followed it a few years later with The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two. When she is not cooking, she writes screenplays and produces films. Her screen credits include My Family, Mi Familia and El Norte, both of which were nominated for an Academy… read more
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