Make cheese, not war

January 15, 2018 by
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  Since the end of the Cold War, military weapons stockpiles have been shrinking in size. This reduction in arms means that huge storage facilities - many of them underground bunkers - are being decommissioned. While rich people are converting missile silos in the American Midwest to upscale doomsday prep condos, companies in Switzerland have found a much better use… read more

Globetrotting through your cookbook library

January 14, 2018 by
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This weekend is one of administrative work but the urge to write had to be answered. While I believe my love of cookbooks started from wanting to be better than what had been drilled into me as a child, it blossomed due to my need to explore other cultures that interested me. I didn't want to become a close-minded recluse… read more

Australian food blog awards announced

January 14, 2018 by
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  Just over a week ago, we learned the winners of the restaurant awards given by the Australian Good Food & Travel Guide. The AGFG has also announced its picks for the top 10 Australian food blogs.  Several of the blogs are focused on restaruant reviews, like the Melbourne-based Eat and Be Merry. This blog is a group effort, featuring friends… read more

Grow Cook Nourish by Darina Allen

January 13, 2018 by
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Darina Allen runs the world-renowned cooking school at Ballymaloe in County Cork, Ireland. She founded the school with her brother, Rory O'Connell, in 1983 and since then has authored many cookery books. Besides running the school with her brother, her daughter-in-law, Rachel Allen, also teaches there and lives nearby.  The family connection travels back to when Darina (O'Connell then) started as a… read more

René Redzepi prepares to open the new Noma

January 13, 2018 by
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  René Redzepi was living the dream: two Michelin stars plus many other accolades for a destination restaurant where you couldn't get a reservation for months. After sitting at or near the top of every worldwide restaurant ranking for several years, the chef closed the doors of Noma early last year and announced that he was moving the restaurant to a… read more

Meet the baker behind the beautiful pies of Instagram

January 12, 2018 by
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  Internet fame can be overwhelming and fickle, as Lauren Ko is discovering. Ko is the baker who has quickly developed a huge following - over 100,000 people follow lokokitchen on Instagram - over her intricately decorated pies. Even though most of the comments she has received are positive, a few people have sent her hate mail.  In Ko's interview… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

January 12, 2018 by
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At Eat Your Books we want to bring you the best recipes - our dedicated team searches out and finds online recipes excerpted from newly indexed cookbooks and magazines. New recipes from the best blogs are indexed daily and members index their favorite online recipes using  the Bookmarklet all the time. Below you'll find this week's recommendations from the EYB team.… read more

Your cookbook collection could be worth more than you think

January 11, 2018 by
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  When you think of collectible cookbooks, you probably consider volumes like a first edition of Joy of Cooking or a signed copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, both of which are highly sought after books. But these aren't the only cookbooks that are worth collecting. According to Food & Wine, many other volumes may be valuable as well.… read more

Smoking Hot & Cold by Charlotte Pike

January 11, 2018 by
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Smoking Hot & Cold: Techniques and Recipes for Smoked Meat, Seafood, Dairy, and Vegetables by Charlotte Pike provides nearly 100 recipes to add flavor and depth to our dishes in the form of smoke. Of course, we are all familiar with smoking proteins but what about smoking vegetables and condiments or even dessert? Charlotte has us covered with chapters covering Fish,… read more

Cookbook Dreams

January 11, 2018 by
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The last week I've been busy adding 2018 titles to the library, editing them, writing up a few promotions and wishing for more time to cook from all the great cookbooks that I already own. Even with my embarrassment of riches in the cookbook department, I keep thinking about all the books that I wish would be written. Every few… read more

New year, same celebrity diet books

January 10, 2018 by
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  You can tell when the year changes in many ways: the days are getting longer (or shorter), calendars are all 50% off, organizing and cleaning items are on sale, and celebrity diet books appear in bookstores. While these cookbooks may inspire some people, Anthony Warner is one person who remains unimpressed. He provides scathing reviews of five celebrity diet… read more

Smitten Kitchen Every Day by Deb Perelman

January 10, 2018 by
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Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites, Deb Perelman's long anticipated follow up to her New York Times best selling, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, delivers more than 100 new, easy-to-cook, impossible-to-resist recipes. Deb's blog is indexed for our members (one click and you can add 1,150 searchable recipes to your bookshelf). It is often said that sequels are never as good as the… read more

Finding deliciousness in unexpected places

January 9, 2018 by
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  When you enter an upscale grocery store or posh farmer's market, you expect to see the finest produce and the highest-quality foods. Shopping in one of these establishments can be a pleasant experience, as they are usually well-appointed, attractively lit, and have helpful staff. As good as that shopping experience may be, nothing compares to the joy in finding… read more

Baco by Josef Centeno

January 9, 2018 by
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Josef Centeno is the chef credited with capturing the myriad tastes of Los Angeles on one plate. In his debut cookbook written with food writer, Betty Hallock, Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles, he delivers his food - vibrant and fresh with influences taken from the melting pot of cuisines that make up this fascinating food paradise. Recipes span from… read more

The New Yorker adds a food department

January 8, 2018 by
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  The New Yorker is known for in-depth, thought-provoking articles about a variety of topics, including the occasional food article. We won't be able to say "occasional" much longer, as the magazine announced today that it now has its own food department. As editor Michael Luo notes in his announcement, The New Yorker has a long tradition of offering quality… read more

The Farm Cooking School

January 8, 2018 by
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The Farm Cooking School: Techniques and Recipes for Inspired Seasonal Cooking by Ian Knauer and Shelley Wiseman is one of the titles that made my best of 2017 list. Ian and Shelley run The Farm Cooking School in New Jersey and their schedule of classes can always be found on our Calendar. Ian has written or co-written three other books:… read more

I Love India by Anjum Anand

January 7, 2018 by
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I Love India: Recipes and Stories from City to Coast, Morning to Midnight, and Past to Present is Anjum Anand's eighth book. Here, she delivers her favourite dishes in a beautiful tribute to her homeland and its extraordinary food culture, drawn from its diverse regions as well as from a host of traders, settlers and immigrants over the years. The… read more

It’s not just for breakfast anymore

January 7, 2018 by
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  If you have children, chances are good that you have a few boxes of breakfast cereal in your cabinets. You might not think about using them in your cooking and baking, but they can be used in a surprising number of ways. Taste of Home put together a slideshow of 30 ways to use cereal for everything from snacks… read more

Predictions for the best and worst in food for 2018

January 6, 2018 by
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  Our local (rural) radio station just ran a piece about the estimation that, after years of declining consumption, the prediction for 2018 is that people in the U.S. will eat more meat than ever before. That got me wondering what else might be in store, food-wise, for the new year. Food Republic has a few ideas, and offers its… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

January 6, 2018 by
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Do you find other people's comments on recipes helpful? Have you written your own recipe Notes? It's a great way to remind yourself how a dish turned out and share your experience with the EYB community. On each Recipe Details page you'll find a Notes tab. Adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to expand… read more

Cold weather baking adjustments

January 5, 2018 by
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  Baking in the summer heat has obvious challenges: butter melts, humidity ruins meringue, and frosting slumps. Wintertime baking also contains obstacles, even if they aren't quite as noticeable. Stella Parks (aka Bravetart) explains the problems you can encounter in a cold kitchen and the changes you should make for cold weather baking.  Parks advises that just a few degrees… read more

Homemade Pasta Made Simple – Manuela Zangara

January 4, 2018 by
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Homemade Pasta Made Simple: A Pasta Cookbook with Easy Recipes & Lessons to Make Fresh Pasta Any Night by Manuela Zangara is an all-in-one pasta cookbook for stress-free pasta making at home. Manuela was born and raised in Italy and shares authentic Italian food on her blog Manu's Menu. I have marked several of her blog recipes to try: Danubio,… read more

Gastro Obscura brings you weird foods and more

January 4, 2018 by
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You might have heard about Atlas Obscura, the self-described "definitive guide to the world's wondrous and curious places." Their articles about unique and undiscovered places have been  responsible for more clicks than I care to admit from my social media feeds. Now there's even more to love about the quirky site, as they have launched a companion website called Gastro Obscura,… read more

Australia’s top restaurants named

January 3, 2018 by
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  The Australian Good Food and Travel Guide (AGFG) has just announced its Chef Hat award winners for 2018. AGFC was the country's first national food guide and has celebrated over 40 years of reporting about Australia's best restaurants. 2018 sees 390 restaurants awarded Chef Hats around the country, down 18 from 2017.  You can view the listings by number of… read more

Cheers to the Publican Paul Kahan

January 3, 2018 by
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Cheers to The Publican, Repast and Present: Recipes and Ramblings from an American Beer Hall by Paul Kahan, Cosmo Goss and Rachel Holtzman is a narrative-rich cookbook by Chicago's superstar chef whose destination restaurant, The Publican, is known for its incredibly delicious pork- and seafood-centric, beer-friendly cooking. I admit it, I'm a fan of restaurant cookbooks - I love the… read more
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