Ladies and gentlemen, start your grills

May 21, 2014 by
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The official Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. also marks the unofficial start of summer, and by extension, grilling season. Food websites are ablaze (groan) with grilling and barbecue recipes. Serious Eats gives the lowdown on how to make great kebabs and Saveur features a Memorial Day backyard cookout menu. Food52 shows you how to master your grill, and the L.A. Times  explains… read more

Forget flowers, get Mom something she’ll really like

May 7, 2014 by
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This Sunday is Mother's Day in the U.S. Traditional gifts for Mother's Day are flowers, jewelry, and taking Mom to brunch. (Husbands who buy their wives vacuum cleaners or washing machines for Mother's Day may be the recipient of the cold shoulder for weeks.) Instead of the same old gifts, why not get Mom something she'll really like, such as… read more

Get ready for Cinco de Mayo

May 2, 2014 by
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Everyone appreciates a reason to celebrate, especially when the festivities involve great food. This is evident in the widespread celebration of Cinco de Mayo far outside the borders of Mexico. It's likely that many people who celebrate this day may not fully comprehend the history behind it: it is not, as many people believe, Mexico's Independence Day, which is September… read more

Celebrating Anzac Day

April 24, 2014 by
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While many "holidays" about food are completely fabricated events to promote a product, some foods are associated with real holidays that have a more noble purpose. This is the case with the Anzac biscuit, made to commemorate Anzac Day. According to EYB member and blogger Pat Churchill of Cooking Down Under, each year on April 25, Australians and New Zealanders mark Anzac Day… read more

Caramel knowledge

April 5, 2014 by
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As we've discussed before, there is a "food holiday" nearly every day of the year, especially in the U.S. Today's holiday bears mention because it celebrates caramel, that fantastic transformation of a nondescription pantry staple into an exotic treat. Caramel has been part of the cooking lexicon since medieval times, if not before, and with good reason. The dark and… read more

Green, naturally

March 13, 2014 by
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St. Patrick's Day is drawing near, and that means green foods will soon be popping up everywhere. A lot of food (and beer) will be artificially colored green for the celebration, but there are plenty of green foods you can make that don't require a squeeze of the food coloring bottle. The EYB St. Patrick's Day Pinterest board has several interesting green… read more

Every day is a celebration

February 22, 2014 by
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Today is National Margarita Day in the United States. This is, of course, not an official holiday, but a quick Google search turns up a plethora of similar food celebration days in the US and the UK. (My search for specific UK food holidays was hampered by the different use of the word holiday in these countries. I guess the… read more

Sometimes a guy just wants a sandwich

February 14, 2014 by
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Tonight, thousands of champagne corks will pop and indulgent meals will be served as couples the world over celebrate Valentine's Day. This day of romance is named after a Christian martyr from the fifth century, but its modern-day incarnation as an ode to romantic love makes its debut in the writings of Chaucer and others in the fourteenth century. It is frequently… read more

Romantic recipes

February 10, 2014 by
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Friday is Valentine's Day, so if you haven't yet planned the romantic dinner to sweep your significant other off his or her feet, you better start straight away. My romantic dinner will include a fried bologna sandwich (that's what he wants) and red velvet cheesecake (that's what I want). So many Valentine's Day recipes revolve around standbys like steak and… read more

Competitive appetites

February 7, 2014 by
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Today the Olympics begin in Sochi, Russia. While there has been controversy about dilapidated hotels, strange toilet configurations, and cameras in the showers, food hadn't been part of the hullabaloo. But now that, too, has become an issue. It seems that a trade dispute involving dairy foods will keep U.S. Olympians from enjoying their Chobani Yogurt (Chobani is a sponsor of… read more

Chef’s cookbooks that actually help us cook

December 13, 2013 by
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Today we're presenting our final holiday list (apart of course from our Best of the Best which will go up early next week) - which hopefully still leaves some time to actually find and buy the item. And, of course, we had to have a list of cookbooks. Of the various lists we've seen, this one from the Los Angeles… read more

The worst food gifts to give – or to get

December 11, 2013 by
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It's about time for another list, and this time the nod goes to Bon Appétit for their "The 50 Worst Food Gifts in the World." Some of them are at least attempts to help the cook out, but others you truly have to wonder, "What were they thinking?" Here are some that struck me as falling in that latter category:… read more

The Thanksgivvukah face-off: The two final recipes

November 5, 2013 by
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Last month, we announced that two of our favorite online food sites were entering into a culinary joust to create recipes for the unique holiday of Thanksgivvukah (see our blog description if you're in the dark about this holiday). Food52 challenged Serious Eats  to come up with the ultimate Thanksgivvukah recipe. Both sides responded and the two final recipes have just been announced - they're creative… read more

The Thanksgivvukah face-off: Food 52 vs. Serious Eats

October 28, 2013 by
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  Two of our favorite online food sites are potentially entering into quite a culinary joust. To create recipes for the unique holiday of Thanksgivvukah (see our blog description if you're in the dark about this holiday), Food52 has challenged Serious Eats  to come up with the ultimate Thanksgivvukah recipe. The Food 52 campaign: In asking their members to help, Food… read more

The apple mystery story gets a little less mysterious

October 13, 2013 by
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With  apple season in full flower (at least in the U.S. and Canada), we wanted to bring attention to a great story that Mother Jones ran earlier this year. But, first, we wanted to wish all our Canadian brethren a very happy Thanksgiving. The article, Why Your Supermarket Only Sells 5 Kinds of Apples, profiles a modern-day apple detective. As… read more

Cooking for a holiday that comes once every 70,000 years

October 3, 2013 by
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While Thanksgivukkah is still a bit off, given its rarity, it may be necessary to do a little more planning than usual to honor this unique holiday. Thanksgivukkah occurs this year as the first day of Hanukkah falls on the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday (which, if we just changed  to coincide with the Canadian Thanksgiving in October, would  stand on its own… read more

Four good reasons to eat chocolate

May 9, 2013 by
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Discussing chocolate is always appropriate, but never more so than approaching Mother's Day. So here's a shout out to The Daily Meal's article, Truth Behind 4 Chocolate Myths. By busting these myths, they produce even more reasons than you may already have for eating chocolate. Check out the article for the full details, here is a synopsis: "Myth #1: Chocolate… read more

Our five favorite April Fool’s Day sites

April 1, 2013 by
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We'll admit to being a little jealous at some of the great April Fool's Day sites that have gone up today - we applaud both the cleverness and the humor in the companies that have surrendered their sites to whimsy.  Alas, we can't emulate them, but at least we can honor them. So here are our favorite five food-related April… read more

Thomas Keller loves Peeps!

March 29, 2013 by
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Thomas Keller is certainly one of the top 5 most respected chefs in the world, so it wasn't surprising that NPR visited him to talk about his favorite Easter recipes, as reported in Homemade Peeps, And More Easter Treats, A La Thomas Keller. Keller's  new book, Bouchon Bakery,  is up for numerous awards, so a lot of the conversation had to do… read more

How colors affect taste

March 14, 2013 by
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Two recent articles struck us as working together in a somewhat ironic fashion. FoodBuzz has 24 Foods That Shouldn't Celebrate St. Patrick's Day while The Guardian reports on How we taste different colours. The former is a compilation of foods that have been dyed green - and definitely never should have been.  Their photos of bacon, steak, eggs, grilled cheese, mashed potatoes,… read more

Jell-O never ceases to amaze

February 14, 2013 by
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What's not to love about Jell-O? Well, awhile ago we wrote a blog about the ways people have abused Jell-O over the years (see Abusing Jell-O vs. respecting it) but this week (International Jell-O week) we wanted to join with BuzzFeed in celebrating all the ways - many unexpected - that Jell-O have contributed to our lives. Here are a… read more

Tips for easy cake icing

February 12, 2013 by
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If you're an experienced cake froster (icer), this blog probably isn't for you. But for those of us who ice cakes only on special occasions (Valentine's Day, birthdays, etc.) it doesn't hurt to be reminded of some basic frosting rules that will truly make a difference. After all, our EYB members have over 600 cake cookbooks in their collections (750 of… read more

How not to impress a food lover

February 10, 2013 by
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Thanks to BuzzFeed, and just in time for Valentine' Day, here are several no-no's if you're going on a first date with a food lover. Check out the post for the rationale behind each item: Don't choose a super-fancy restaurant Don't choose a concept restaurant Don't make someone you ask out choose a restaurant Don't be rude to anyone who… read more

Celebrating the year of the snake

February 7, 2013 by
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This coming Sunday begins the Chinese New Year. The Chinese calendar is a lunar/solar calendar and other names for this festival - by far the biggest in the Chinese calendar - are the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival. The celebration begins on the new moon on the first day of the new year (Feb. 10 this year) and ends… read more

Celebrating Australia Day with some of our favorite bloggers

January 25, 2013 by
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It's Australia Day and this gives us a chance to say "hi" to some of our most avid (and friendly) EYB community members. We also thought we'd give a shout out to the work of food bloggers down under. Here are some of our favorites - all indexed here at EYB - that will give you an idea of the… read more
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