Learning to love eBooks

September 27, 2016 by
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  Hello, my name is Darcie and I'm a cookbookaholic. My friends contemplate the rows of cookbooks lining my bookshelves in stunned silence, yet I don't think I have enough! Few things make me as happy as curling up with a cup of coffee and a cookbook filled with possibilities. My favorite books have receipts, Post-It notes, and torn envelope… read more

T. Susan Chang’s new podcast

September 21, 2016 by
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T. Susan Chang, who you likely remember wrote weekly EYB blog posts about cookbooks and whose work regularly appears in the Boston Globe, on NPR and other major news outlets, has an exciting new project: her very own podcast. Called The Level Teaspoon, it's all about our favorite subject - cookbooks. Each week Susie will look at several of the latest cookbook releases, discuss what's happening in the… read more

A look at online cookbook clubs

September 21, 2016 by
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Many cookbook lovers attempt to start a cookbook club but discover that schedules are difficult to coordinate, folks back out at the last minute and unless you can develop a core group of committed individuals, it becomes more of a headache than a delicious experience. One of the ways to lessen the headache and still enjoy the camaraderie of discussing… read more

New cookbook to aid Greek food relief organization

August 12, 2016 by
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Released earlier this summer, the new book A Taste of Greece is more than just a cookbook. In addition to featuring fantastic time-honored recipes, it is also a fundraiser for a Greek food relief organization that is facing an ever-increasing need due to the refugee crisis. The cookbook represents a collaborative effort between HRH Princess Tatiana, who has made Athens her home since 2013; Diana Farr… read more

Exploring the foods of a harsh and remote region

August 1, 2016 by
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A cookbook that you probably haven't heard about recently won a prize that you also might not recognize. But once you read the story behind the book, you may want to learn more about it. With Our Own Hands won the title of Best Cookbook of the Year at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards have… read more

Reprints of La Bonne Table now available

July 13, 2016 by
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The gifted and exuberant Ludwig Bemelmans was trained as a boy for a career as a restaurateur, but ended up as a writer as well as an internationally known gourmet. One of the author's most beloved works, La Bonne Table, is in effect his gastronomical autobiography. The entrancing memories and charming pictures assembled in the book transport the reader behind… read more

The best cookbook recipes, period

July 10, 2016 by
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  Everyone has tried-and-true recipes that they reach for over and over again. But even in this list a few stand above the others, recipes that speak to us on a deep level and have forever changed our cooking. The pages of the cookbooks in which they reside are trained to fall open to the precise page, which contains evidence… read more

An online vintage cookbook extravaganza

July 8, 2016 by
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  If the thought of perusing thousands of cookery books dating back 50 to 100 years or more gives you a tingle of anticipation, you should definitely visit the Cookbook and Home Economics Collection at the Internet Archive. The catalog includes vintage volumes drawn from  the Young Research Library Department of Special Collections at UCLA, the Bancroft Library at The… read more

2016 James Beard Cookbook Award winners

April 27, 2016 by
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The James Beard Foundation announced it cookbook award winners yesterday. The list is generally different from the IACP winners announced earlier this month, although there are a few books that made both lists. The big winner in 2016 is J. Kenji López-Alt's The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science. It won in the American category for IACP and was named… read more

Sneak peek at Dorie Greenspan’s new cookie book

April 25, 2016 by
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  Dorie Greenspan fans take note: she is wrapping up the proofreading for her new cookie cookbook, Dorie's Cookies, which isn't out until this October. She just Instagrammed the photo above, which looks like part of a galley for the new book.  You can pre-order the book now. While you are waiting, you can sample a few of the recipes… read more

An unusual cookbook gets an index

April 8, 2016 by
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  When Prune by Gabrielle Hamilton emerged in late 2014, people quickly noticed that this was no ordinary cookbook. Hamilton, a James Beard Award-winning chef, decided that she wasn't going to write the usual recipe collection aimed at home cooks. Instead, she decided to write to the audience she knew best: restaurant line cooks. The result was a book that looks… read more

2016 IACP Cookbook Award Winners

April 3, 2016 by
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  The IACP has just announced the winners of its 2016 Cookbook Awards at its annual conference, held this year in Los Angeles, California. There were no real upsets; most of the winners were solid contenders from the beginning. It may have taken longer than he intended to write his opus, but it looks like all the work paid off… read more

Revisiting a cherished children’s classic

March 30, 2016 by
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Only a few cookbooks can stand the test of time. While many works fade away, there are a few that continue to inspire decades after they are published. One of these is  Australian Women's Weekly's Children's Birthday Cake Book. For decades, Australian children have chosen to celebrate with a cake from one of book's whimsical designs like the train or… read more

James Beard Foundation 2016 nominees

March 16, 2016 by
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  The James Beard Foundation has just announced the nominees for its 2016 cookbook awards. Compared to the recently published IACP list, the JBF award nominees seem to align better with the preferences of EYB Members. More Member favorites made the latter list than the former, including The New Sugar and Spice by Samantha Seneviratne, A Bird in the Hand by Diana Henry… read more

What it’s really like to write a cookbook

March 15, 2016 by
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If you've co-authored five cookbooks with five different chefs, writing your own cookbook should be a piece of cake, right? Not so, says Jessica Battilana. She has worked with temperamental chefs and tight deadlines before, but writing her own cookbook proved to be a much more difficult task. Writing a cookbook with chefs meant Battilana had to act as a… read more

IACP announces 2016 cookbook award nominees

March 8, 2016 by
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  Last night the IACP has announced its 2016 Cookbook Award nominees. The categories were revised again this year, with the Culinary History, Global Design and E-cookbook sections dropped and the former Beverage/Reference/Technical category losing its Beverage component.  Several of the nominations were expected, like The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science in the American category and Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change… read more

Are there too many men in food writing?

March 2, 2016 by
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  Food writing, especially at the newspaper level, was once heavily weighted towards women. But over the past decade or so, food writing has shifted its focus and subsequently more men have become involved in the craft. Kathleen Purvis weighs in on this change, asking whether too many men are involved in food writing. Purvis notes that when she came… 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

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

Looking forward to celebrity cookbooks

January 8, 2016 by
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Celebrity cookbooks are often dismissed as little more than vanity projects by stars cashing in on their fame. But some celebrities can actually cook and that makes some people actually looking forward to cooking out of a few upcoming celebrity books. The first cookbook is from an unlikely source, musician Questlove. While some musician cookbooks are a bit campy (I'm looking at you, Coolio),… 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

Cookbook writing advice from the experts

December 20, 2015 by
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What does it take to write a cookbook? Obviously it involves much more than simply compiling recipes. Cookbook writers Matt and Ted Lee, authors of The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen, share ten things they have learned from the process. Veteran author and food writer David Lebovitz also offers advice on how to write a cookbook. Both the Lee brothers and… read more

Save 30% on Workman & Artisan books

December 9, 2015 by
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If you are interested in expanding your cookbook collection (and we know you are), you will love our new partnership with Workman Publishing and Artisan Books. For the next 30 days, you can save 30% off the cover price of any book available at workman.com. The special is limited to the US only. The Workman/Artisan cookbook catalog features several hundred volumes,… read more

‘Tis the season for “best of” cookbook lists

November 28, 2015 by
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As the year draws to a close, it's human nature to take a look back and reminisce on the best things of the year. Plenty of experts will be weighing in on which cookbooks were tops in various categories. Jane assesses hundreds of these lists (last year she waded through over 300) and tallies the results to make an ultimate… read more

The archive of eating

October 30, 2015 by
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  Cookbooks have been around for centuries, and no matter how many of them are published, we clamor for more. The idea of cataloging these cookbook recipes has also been around for a long time. As The New York Times reports, food historian Barbara Ketcham Wheaton has been working on such a database for over five decades. The article takes… read more
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