Four outstanding independently published cookbooks worth your attention

June 29, 2025 by
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Independently published cookbooks offer authors greater control over their work and the publishing process. This approach allows creators to maintain creative control, retain more rights, and potentially earn higher royalties. While traditional publishing provides wider distribution networks, self-publishing has become an increasingly viable option for culinary authors. We love our cookbook publishers and work closely with them to promote their… read more

Taste Canada releases shortlist for 2025 awards

June 26, 2025 by
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Now in its 28th year, Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada has announced its shortlist of cookbooks vying for a coveted culinary writing award. Sixty-nine cookbooks entered the competition, written by authors from across Canada. The shortlist narrowed the competition to 43 entries. The winners will be announced at the Taste Canada Awards Soirée in Toronto, scheduled… read more

Guild of Food Writers 2025 winners announced

June 19, 2025 by
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The Guild of Food Writers announced the winners of its 2025 awards at a ceremony in London at the Royal Institution on June 18th. At the event, Arabella Boxer was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Arabella has a storied food writing history, including stints at the Sunday Times magazine, the Telegraph magazine, and Vogue, plus authoring several cookbooks. Throughout her long career… read more

James Beard Cookbook and Media Award winners

June 14, 2025 by
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Jane, Katie and Jenny attended the James Beard award ceremony this evening in Chicago, where the the James Beard Foundation announced the winners of its 2025 Media Awards, which includes books, broadcast media, and journalism. You can view the entire award ceremony, which was live-streamed on YouTube. Padma Lakshmi served as emcee for the event. We will focus on the cookbook… read more

Taste Canada Awards 2025 longlist released

May 29, 2025 by
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Now in its 28th year, Taste Canada / Saveurs du Canada has announced the longlist of 69 cookbooks in the running for its culinary writing awards. The Awards are presented to outstanding Canadian cookbooks in both English and French languages. The shortlist will be announced online on June 25th, 2025 and the winners will be announced in autumn of this year. The Taste… read more

Upcoming cookbook news, author events, recipes, EYBD Previews and more

May 16, 2025 by
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It is time again to highlight a few more upcoming titles that I have recently added to our 2025 Cookbook Preview Post. Yann Couvreur's upcoming September release Yann Couvreur’s Pastry is one of many books that I am looking forward to. It is the English edition of his 2017 French title La Pâtisserie de Yann Couvreur. Diana Henry has Around… read more

James Beard Foundation 2025 Media Award Nominees

May 7, 2025 by
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The James Beard Foundation has announced the nominees for its 2025 Media Awards, which includes cookbooks. The Book Awards are open to cookbooks and other non-fiction food or beverage-related books that were published in the United States in 2024. In a press release, Clare Reichenbach, CEO, James Beard Foundation, said "Congratulations to our 2025 Media Award nominees, whose exceptional storytelling deserves… read more

Cookbooks that embrace cultural messiness

April 9, 2025 by
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One of the great debates over cuisine is the idea of authenticity: does a cookbook or recipe truly represent the culture of a place or people. This debate gets messy because culture is never static and is ever evolving. Think about how the spice trade introduced flavors that became 'authentic' to a cuisine thousands of miles away from where the… read more

160-year-old cookbook gets a brand new edition

February 25, 2025 by
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Back in 2019, we wrote about the work of Juli McLoonen and Jan Longone, the University of Michigan Special Collections Curator and Adjunct Curator, to boost interest in the oldest known cookbook authored by a black woman. Longone found a copy of A Domestic Cookbook by Malinda Russell, published in 1866, at the bottom of a collection of donated books. For years, a digital… read more

Tips on making your freezer work for you

February 1, 2025 by
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The freezer may be the most undersung appliance. They have become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to imagine not having one, but they only became available just a few generations ago for most people. While most of us use the freezer as a place to chuck ready made items like frozen pizza or to make and store ice cubes,… read more

Top 2024 cookbooks added to Member Bookshelves by region

December 14, 2024 by
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On December 9th, I shared this year's list of top books added to Member bookshelves in 2024. That list included 56 titles as I included a few additional books that were on 100 Bookshelves. A few Members asked if I could do a similar breakdown of those books by country and like the U.S. Postal Service, "we deliver for you."… read more

The Food Lab celebrates a huge milestone

December 10, 2024 by
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I missed this news when Kenji López-Alt announced it a couple of weeks ago but it is worth mentioning - his first solo cookbook, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, recently ticked past 1 million copies sold. In addition to selling a lot of copies, The Food Lab has earned a James Beard Award, was a NYT bestseller,… read more

IACP Cookbook Award winners 2024

September 26, 2024 by
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The International Association of Culinary Professionals announced the winners of its 2024 Cookbook Awards (along with other food media and writing awards) this evening at its 2024 Summit held in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to this year’s winners, the IACP inducted three cookbooks into its Culinary Classics, which is a like a Hall of Fame for cookbooks. The IACP also presented… read more

2025 Cookbook Preview Post

September 15, 2024 by
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Here we go again...another year and a slew of cookbooks already in the pre-order stage. You can still follow the remaining months of 2024 in my 2024 Cookbook Preview Post. A few authors have mentioned that the amount of pre-orders weigh into how much money the publishing companies put into publicity for a particular cookbook, so preorder your favorites. Using… read more

Philadelphia is getting a new cookbook store

September 6, 2024 by
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We love welcoming new cookbook stores to the world, and this one is especially satisfying because Philadelphia has been without a cookbook store since The Cook Book Stall in Reading Terminal Market closed in 2017. But soon the City of Brotherly Love will once again boast a cookbook store as Binding Agents plans to open its doors this fall. The… read more

The publishing path less traveled

August 20, 2024 by
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The number of cookbooks published every year through traditional channels is astonishing. No one person could keep up with each and every book that comes out (although Jenny diligently reviews as many as possible). However, there are more books that don't even hit most people's radar because they are self-published. The world of self-publishing is growing, and the books can… read more

IACP 2024 Award Finalists

August 16, 2024 by
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The finalists for the 2024 IACP Cookbook and Media Awards were announced last evening. The Awards honor the authors, publishers, and other contributors behind the best cookbooks published each year. Their program requires multi-step, rigorous recipe testing in all relevant awards categories. Awards are given in 16 categories, and one cookbook will be selected by the IACP Executive Committee Members as the… read more

Everything Cookbooks Podcast

July 24, 2024 by
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Cookbook authors and food aficionados Molly Stevens, Andrea Nguyen, Kate Leahy and Kristin Donnelly are the creators and hosts of Everything Cookbooks, a podcast for curious writers, readers, and cooks. Episodes provide behind-the-scenes information and stories about how cookbooks get made. Recently, Jane and I spent some time talking to Molly and Kate about Eat Your Books and, of course,… read more

Phaidon turns 101

July 18, 2024 by
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I'm not sure how I missed this news from last year, but worldwide cookbook publishing house Phaidon celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2023. Last November, Publishers Weekly posted about how Phaidon, which didn't embrace cookbook publishing until 2005 with the release of The Silver Spoon, has since turned into a culinary publishing powerhouse. The article includes a Q&A with the… read more

How one editor sparked a cookbook revolution

June 14, 2024 by
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Judith Jones never set out to be a cookbook editor. “The idea of working on cookbooks never even occurred to me,” Jones wrote in her 2008 memoir, The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food. But even though it wasn't a career she sought, she ended up introducing the world to many culinary greats like Julia Child, Madhur Jaffrey, Lidia Bastianich, and… read more

Guild of Food Writers 2024 winners announced

June 12, 2024 by
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The Guild of Food Writers announced the winners of its 2024 awards at a ceremony in London at the Royal Institution. At the event, Dame Prue Leith was given the Lifetime Achievement Award, a truly deserved honor. Now on to the winning books, which are a treasure trove of excellence. The First Book Award went to Painting the Plate: 52 Recipes… read more

James Beard Cookbook and Media Award winners

June 8, 2024 by
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In a ceremony earlier this evening in Chicago, the James Beard Foundation has announced the winners of its media awards in Chicago. You may watch the awards which were live-streamed on YouTube here. Michelle Miller, co-host of CBS This Morning, served as emcee for the event. Highlights of the cookbook awards include Sohla El-Waylly taking home top honors in the… read more

Great News! Nagi’s second book is slated for October release!

June 7, 2024 by
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Nagi Maehashi, the author of the popular blog RecipeTin Eats (be sure to add the blog to your Bookshelf for 1,390 additional recipes) and debut cookbook, RecipeTin Eats: Dinner: 150+ Recipes from Australia's Favourite Cook, has written a second cookbook slated for release in October! Delicious Tonight: Foolproof Recipes for 150+ Easy Dinners shares 150 plus foolproof recipes for 150… read more

Taste Canada Awards longlist released

May 8, 2024 by
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Now in its 27th year, Taste Canada / Saveurs du Canada has announced the longlist of 73 cookbooks vying for its coveted culinary writing awards. The Awards are presented to outstanding Canadian cookbooks in both English and French languages. The shortlist will be announced online on June 12, 2024 and the winners will be announced in autumn of this year (for reference,… read more

UK Guild of Food Writers announces 2024 shortlist

May 7, 2024 by
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The UK Guild of Food Writers announced the shortlist for its annual Awards in food writing and broadcasting. The winners will be revealed at a ceremony at the Royal Institution in London on Wednesday, 12 June. The awards highlight emerging voices as well as the industry's best-known food writers and broadcasters. Without further ado, the First Book Award nominees include:… read more
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