Former Food52 exec stole a fortune from the company

August 16, 2025 by
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A former media executive for Food52 who managed production of the brand's partnership deals stole a whopping $270,000 USD from the company, according to an exposé published in The Cut. (That article is paywalled but you can read a synopsis here.) When you read heartbreaking stories of food writers losing their jobs to layoffs and entire publications shuttering due to… read more

Meat-free no more

August 13, 2025 by
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In 2024, Daniel Humm released Eleven Madison Park - The Plant-Based Chapter, which celebrated the transformation of the former World's Best Restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, into the first plant-based kitchen to earn three Michelin stars. When the restaurant returned to service in 2021 following the lifting of restaurant restrictions due to the pandemic, Humm envisioned a totally different sort of… read more

When bad people use good recipes

July 9, 2025 by
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Nagi Maehashi, the woman behind the popular blog RecipeTin Eats, spent countless hours perfecting the Beef Wellington recipe published in her first cookbook, Dinner. The recipe has recently gone viral, but not for a good reason. Convicted murdered Erin Patterson allegedly used Nagi's recipe when she prepared the dinner at which she poisoned four of her in-laws, killing three of… read more

World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025

June 25, 2025 by
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On Monday, the World's 50 Best announced the top 50 restaurants in the world for 2025 at an event in Turin, Italy on Monday evening. Maido in Lima, Peru was named No. 1, the second time a restaurant from this city landed in the top position (Central won in 2023). Spain’s Asador Etxebarri became the bridesmaid again at No. 2… read more

Amanda Hesser leaving Food52

May 27, 2025 by
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Amanda Hesser, one of pioneering website Food52's founding members, announced in her newsletter that she is stepping away from the company. She will focus on her Substack Homeward in which she is chronicling her home renovation in Ojai, plus providing design picks, recipes, and travel recommendations. Hesser said that after 16 years at the company, it is time for her… read more

Nagi Maehashi wins cookbook award, beating rival she accused of plagiarism

May 8, 2025 by
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RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi won the Illustrated Book of the Year category in the 2025 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) for RecipeTin Eats - Tonight, beating nominee Brooke Bellamy, who Maehashi recently accused of copying her recipes without attribution in Bellamy's cookbook. Bellamy insists the accusations are false and says she has faced relentless online harassment since Maehashi came… read more

Martha Stewart and José Andrés team up for a new show

April 30, 2025 by
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Lifestyle maven Martha Stewart and everyone's favorite humanitarian chef José Andrés have teamed up for a new cooking show from NBC that is also streaming on Peacock. Called "Yes, Chef!", the show puts a new twist on the reality TV competition. Instead of cutthroat competition, the contestants will have to be good teammates in order to advance and ultimately collect… read more

Allegations of plagiarism – updated

April 29, 2025 by
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Today the creator of the popular blog RecipeTin Eats and cookbook author Nagi Maehashi, shared allegations of plagiarism against Brooke Bellamy, author of Bake with Brooki. You can read her post here where Nagi shares two examples of her recipes she believes to be copied - collage below shows the Caramel slice comparison. Nagi also claimed that a recent reprint… read more

Lessons from a lifetime of cooking

March 25, 2025 by
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When I was a fresh-faced college graduate 30 years ago, I was far from an accomplished cook. In fact, I was terrible. This was a shortcoming I was determined to overcome, because I really liked eating and did not have the resources to frequently dine out. This was before the ease of finding instruction on YouTube, so I looked to… read more

Charles Phan has died at age 62

January 21, 2025 by
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Today we learned the unfortunate news that Charles Phan, renowned chef and author of Vietnamese Home Cooking and The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food, has passed away at the age of 62. Reports emerged over the weekend indicating that the talented chef had been admitted to the hospital. His family has since confirmed that he suffered cardiac arrest. Phan was… read more

Southern cooking legend Nathalie Dupree has died at age 85

January 14, 2025 by
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We are saddened to share the news that Nathalie Dupree, celebrated Southern chef and cookbook author, passed away yesterday at age 85. South Carolina chefs shared outpourings of affection for Dupree, with Carrie Morey saying "Heaven just got a little more buttery and delicious...you have always inspired me — to take a chance, keep going, do for others, work harder,… read more

The end of an Ottolenghi era

January 5, 2025 by
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Yotam Ottolenghi is by far the most popular author in the EYB Library. The top three books by number of Bookshelves are his, and he has five of the top 10 books in the Library. If you look at individual recipes ranked by buzz, Ottolenghi again dominates. For the past seven years he has written a weekly column for The… read more

The complexities of the Ina Garten/Martha Stewart relationship

December 18, 2024 by
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One could argue that the two biggest female culinary icons alive today are Martha Stewart and Ina Garten. Both have had big years, Stewart with a documentary about her life and Garten with a recently-published memoir. In an interview about her documentary, Stewart suggested that there was bad blood between the two, saying that she felt like Garten abandoned her… read more

Is the term ‘food writer’ a valid description?

October 24, 2024 by
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I subscribe to a variety of culinary websites, including Christopher Kimball's Milk Street. In his most recent Milk Street email, Kimball staked out a controversial position on food writers, saying that "[t]he entire notion of being a “food writer” is suspect, since it should be no different than being a writer," amidst a rant about the state of modern food… read more

Barbara Lynch is closing all of her Boston-area restaurants

October 10, 2024 by
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Last year we reported on a scandal involved revered Boston chef Barbara Lynch in which former employees recounted tales of alleged abuse and harassment at her restaurants. Lynch's rags-to-riches story was chronicled in a 2017 memoir that recounted her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom. The James Beard Award-winning chef shuttered a handful of restaurants in the wake… read more

The Great British Bake Off 2024 begins next week!

September 17, 2024 by
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Everyone's favorite baking competition will premiere its 15th season on Channel 4 at 8pm on Tuesday 24th September in the United Kingdom. While official word has not been released, we hope that new season will then air on Netflix in the US on Friday, September 27th. Fingers crossed. Updated: Netflix has announced that the show will air in the US… read more

Why the UK is katsu crazy

August 13, 2024 by
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Food trends are often cyclical - one era's craze spawns a multitude of copycats, dies down, and then gets resurrected years or even decades later. This happened with the Cosmopolitan cocktail, and as chef and cookbook author Tim Anderson writes in an article for Vittles, it is currently happening with katsu curry in the UK, which he is calling the "Katsuification"… read more

Saveur’s Q&A with Sara Moulton

August 7, 2024 by
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Sara Moulton's culinary career is long and storied. After graduating top of her class at the Culinary Institute of America, Sara worked in fine dining restaurants, cooked for Julia Child, and was the food editor of ABC’s Good Morning America and was Gourmet magazine’s executive chef before the magazine shuttered. She's also written several successful cookbooks. Somehow I missed an… read more

The growing world of Substack newsletters

July 30, 2024 by
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As the world continues its shift to digital publishing, new media crop up to replace the old guard, and that is especially true with newspapers and magazines. Long-form online stories reminiscent of the early days of blogging are rapidly replacing printed media (thankfully with the exception of cookbooks!) via newsletter tools like Substack, Ghost, Medium, Buttondown, and Beehiiv. Of these,… read more

Catching up with Asma Khan

July 25, 2024 by
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Asma Khan is the creator of Darjeeling Express, a London restaurant that began fifteen years ago as a dinner for 12 guests at home - Indian food, lovingly cooked from family recipes going back generations. The restaurant is run by an all-female staff, and Khan eschews the traditional authoritarian style of kitchen brigades, opting instead for a quieter, more collaborative… read more

Portland’s star chef Naomi Pomeroy dies

July 17, 2024 by
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Naomi Pomeroy, a shining star of the Portland restaurant scene, died last weekend in a tragic accident. The 49-year-old chef was tubing on the Willamette River near Corvallis, Oregon with her husband (fellow chef Kyle Linden Webster) and another party on Saturday, when the group hit a snag and were pulled under. Her husband and the other person were removed… read more

Ottolenghi answers the eternal question: why so many ingredients?

July 13, 2024 by
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It is safe to say that our Members love Yotam Ottolenghi. His books hold the top three slots in the EYB Library in popularity: Plenty currently resides on 13,927 Bookshelves, followed closely by Jerusalem and Ottolenghi Simple. Two more of his books are in the top 10. To provide more perspective, the most popular non-Ottolenghi book sits on 7,984 shelves… read more

World’s 50 Best announces 2024 slate

June 7, 2024 by
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On Wednesday evening, the World's 50 Best announced who was on its list of best restaurants in the world. The ceremony was held in Las Vegas, marking it as the culinary destination it has grown to be. In addition to the list of restaurants, there were additional awards, such as Neil Perry winning the Woodford Reserve Icon Award. You can… read more

What Padma Lakshmi’s been up to since leaving Top Chef

April 23, 2024 by
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As Top Chef began season 21, long-time host Padma Lakshmi was nowhere to be seen. She had announced her departure from the show last year, noting that she planned to spend more time on her show Taste the Nation and other projects she had in the works. If you follow her on Instagram, you have probably seen a lot of… read more

World Central Kitchen team members killed in Gaza

April 2, 2024 by
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We've written several times about World Central Kitchen, the humanitarian aid group founded by chef José Andrés in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Since then, the group has been on the front lines of natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other crises. Today we learned the devastating news that seven WCK team members in Gaza were killed in a strike… read more
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