Ridiculously good rugelach

Before you scroll down and lay your eyes upon my photograph depicting my first attempt at making rugelach - don't have a mouthful of coffee to spew. Well, truthfully, this was my second rugelach. My very first was bacon jam rugelach which I made while testing a recipe for Cathy Barrow and her debut cookbook Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry. While my pastry… read more

Featured Cookbooks, Recipes, and the Latest EYBDigital Books & Previews

EYB wants to make your cooking life easier. Our main focus has always been indexing cookbooks and magazines so you can efficiently search your own collection instead of paging through individual indexes. We also aim to keep members up to date on the best new titles being published. Our new EYBDigital platform allows us to provide EYBDigital Previews (sample pages from… read more

Vegan Christmas – Gaz Oakley

Vegan Christmas: Over 70 Amazing Recipes for the Festive Season by Gaz Oakley delivers fantastic alternatives to the traditional turkey and trimmings. Gaz is an expert in bold flavors and textures, so everyone, including vegans, can enjoy a spectacular centerpiece and amazing food throughout the festive season. Vegan Christmas follows his successful debut cookbook Vegan 100 (find out more on this earlier… read more

Good Eats: Reloaded heading to Cooking Channel

Alton Brown provided his fans with a bit of good news earlier this week, when he posted a status update about Good Eats to his Facebook page. In it, he announced that he's "revisiting the Good Eats library and renovating some classic episodes by adding new scenes, new science and new recipes." The first revamped episode of what is being… read more

Bonnie Benwick on downsizing a kitchen

There are many reasons that people downsize their homes, the most obvious being retirement or divorce. If you have a kitchen filled with gadgets and cookware (not to mention a study stuffed with cookbooks), the thought of moving to a much smaller place might give you cold chills. But getting rid of things isn't always bad, as food writer Bonnie… read more

Cooking in Color – EYBD Promotion

Now with EYBDigital, if you buy a print book within the promotional period, for the first time you will have access to the full EYBD cookbook wherever you can access EYB - on vacation, at work, in the grocery store, etc. In addition to the digital book, all the features of EYB will be included in the access, at no cost to… read more

Vancouver Eats – EYBD Promotion

Now with EYBDigital, if you buy a print book within the promotional period, for the first time you will have access to the full EYBD cookbook wherever you can access EYB - on vacation, at work, in the grocery store, etc. In addition to the digital book, all the features of EYB will be included in the access, at no cost to… read more

Nigel Slater reminisces about ‘How to Eat’

Some cookbooks age much better than others. After a couple of decades, what's left of the 'unicorn food' books are going to littering vintage shops, with shoppers making snide comments about how silly people were back in the teens. Other volumes, however, have timeless appeal. When you are lucky enough to find a copy in the resale store, it will… read more

Mastering Pizza – The Baking Steel

Marc Vetri is the chef and founder of Philadelphia's critically acclaimed Vetri Family of Restaurants and the driving force behind the Vetri Community Partnership, a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower children and families through fresh food, hands-on experiences and education. In his spare time he writes cookbooks, great cookbooks.  Joining the Vetri library of Il Viaggio di Vetri: A… read more

Featured Cookbooks, Recipes, and the Latest EYBDigital Previews

EYB wants to make your cooking life easier. Our main focus has always been indexing cookbooks and magazines so you can efficiently search your own collection instead of paging through individual indexes. We also aim to keep members up to date on the best new titles being published.  Our new EYBDigital platform allows us to provide EYBDigital Previews (sample pages from cookbooks) and EYBDigital… read more

Use your instant read thermometer for more than just meat

If you have an instant read thermometer, there's a high likelihood that you purchased for its speed and accuracy when measuring the temperature of large cuts of meat like steaks, whole chicken, roasts, and chops. However, the uses for this nifty device don't end there, as The Washington Post explains. It's also handy for many other foods, too.  Delicate items… read more

Cooking Light ends subscription print publication

Over the course of my cooking career I have subscribed to many different food magazines: Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Saveur, and Cooking Light to name just a few. In the past few years, these elder statesmen of culinary journalism have faced the mounting pressures that are devastating most of the print magazine industry. Gourmet was the first to succumb, folding in… read more

Check out the new ‘Cookbook Love’ podcast

Although the traffic is terrible, the worst part of my long daily commute is that it wastes time that I could be spending reading cookbooks. Until now, there has not been much to fill that time that is even cookbook-related. But a new podcast called Cookbook Love is changing that. CookBook Love was started by author, editor, and coach Maggie… read more

All-Time Best Brunch & All-Time Best Dinners for Two

The editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine have meals covered for any time of the day in two of their latest releases: All-Time Best Brunch and All-Time Best Dinners for Two. All-Time Best Brunch delivers a well-tested recipe collection that features inventive takes on brunch classics (Huevos Rancheros delivers a whole meal from one sheet pan), helpful make-ahead options (you can freeze the Quick… read more

Mowgli Street Food by Nisha Katona

In 2014, barrister Nisha Katona wanted to build a restaurant serving the kind of food Indians eat at home and on the street. The first Mowgli restaurant opened in Liverpool in late 2014, blowing away the critics forming legions of fans. Nisha gave up her 20-year career to build Mowgli Liverpool and now there are six Mowgli locations in the UK. Nisha, a… read more

Is Food Network bringing sexy back?

Food Network and People Magazine are teaming up to redefine the phrase "it's so hot in the kitchen". They are set to produce a new one hour special which will bring together ten of "the country's most beautiful and talented male chefs" for a competition to determine who is the sexiest chef alive.  The hour-long program, which will be broadcast on… read more

Netflix announces lineup for the next two seasons of ‘Chef’s Table’

The Netflix series 'Chef's Table' has been one of the best streaming food shows around since its debut in 201x. The streaming service recently announced which chefs would be featured in seasons five and six of the popular series.  The program is being more inclusive than past years, when it featured mostly white, male, Euro-centric chefs. Upcoming chefs are more… read more

At Home with Natalie Morales

Natalie Morales, longtime news anchor and co-host of the TODAY show, knows how hard it can be to get a nutritious dinner on the table that the whole family will enjoy. Morales was born in Taiwan to a Brazilian mother and Puerto Rican father, and has lived around the world as a child - Panama, Spain, and Brazil. That multicultural… read more

Hamilton and Merriman out at The Spotted Pig

In June, we reported on chef Gabrielle Hamilton and her wife Ashley Merriman's surprising  plans to take over The Spotted Pig, a NYC restaurant that suffered a huge blow amidst allegations of sexual assault against its owner, Ken Friedman, and investor Mario Batali. It seems that Hamilton and Merriman were not able to effect the change they had hoped to… read more

When a cookbook doesn’t live up to expectations

Oh, the thrill of a new cookbook: cracking open the cover, leafing through the pages, and marking the pages of the recipes you want to try first. You gather all of the ingredients and proceed on the maiden voyage. And the results? Eh, it wasn't what you were expecting. You shrug it off, thinking 'not every recipe can be a… read more

How to keep your wooden cutting board in tip top shape

Everyone knows that proper seasoning is the key to great cast iron, but what you might not realize is that the same holds true for wooden cutting boards. Over at indexed website Serious Eats, J. Kenji López-Alt gives us great advice on how to season a new cutting board, and how to keep it working (and looking) good for years.  The… read more

The best streaming food programs

If you are looking for quality food shows to watch in between episodes of the GBBO, you should look to streaming services, which have quietly collected dozens of entertaining shows. There are now so many options it can be difficult to decide what to watch, which is why The Guardian's guide to the best in streaming food shows is so handy. … read more

September 2018 Cookbook Previews

Last month, we launched and shared a promotion for our first EYBDigital Book Southern Baked. We're just a few days into September and two additional EYBD Books have been published Seattle Cooks: Signature Recipes from the City's Best  (see our promotion) and Just a French Guy Cooking: Easy Recipes and Kitchen Hacks for Rookies (see our promotion). We have a fantastic collection of books… read more

Featured Cookbooks, Recipes, and the Latest EYBDigital Books & Previews

EYB wants to make your cooking life easier. Our main focus has always been indexing cookbooks and magazines so you can efficiently search your own collection instead of paging through individual indexes. We also aim to keep members up to date on the best new titles being published. Our new EYBDigital platform allows us to provide EYBDigital Previews (sample pages from cookbooks) and EYBDigital Books (complete digital… read more

Ottolenghi’s new podcast

Can't get enough of Yotam Ottolenghi? Then we've got great news for you! Not only is his new book Simple out now in the UK and soon in the US, we've just discovered that the acclaimed chef and cookbook author has put together a podcast called SIMPLE Pleasures. (Where does he find the time?!) The blurb for the podcast says that… read more
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