Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

April 15, 2018 by
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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 latest feature, EYB Book Preview, allows you to view an extract from… read more

Edible flowers add a pop of color and flavor

April 14, 2018 by
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  From where I'm sitting in the northern US, spring seems like only a distant possibility even though it is mid-April. We're being socked with a blizzard, and the cold and snow makes one dream about the first pops of color that signal the start of the growing season. Many of the first plants to bloom happen to be edible,… read more

Martha Stewart to be part of ‘Chopped’ next season

April 13, 2018 by
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After managing dozens of successful ventures including publishing, design, writing and several television programs, Martha Stewart could retire to her Maine estate and live a quiet retirement. But that is not the domestic doyenne's style, so it should come as no surprise that she has found another project. Discovery Network recently announced that Stewart would become a judge on the… read more

Bakeland by Marit Hovland

April 13, 2018 by
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My world revolves around cookbooks. Everything about a great cookbook inspires me from the endless possibilities they offer, whether it be the exploration of a new cuisine or soaking in the knowledge of a different culture - they bring the world to me.  I know that I can turn to a cookbook to slip away for a while and take… read more

Ottolenghi keeps it simple in his new cookbook

April 12, 2018 by
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  Show of hands: how many of you have preordered Yotam Ottolenghi's upcoming cookbook Simple? Oh my, that's a lot of hands (mine included)! Four of Ottolenghi's books command the #1, 2, 6, and 8 spots in the EYB Library by number of bookshelves. It's no wonder, as his approachable recipes burst with flavor, color, and texture.  His latest effort,… read more

Meyer’s Bakery by Claus Meyer

April 12, 2018 by
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Claus Meyer, one of the original co-founders of Copenhagen's esteemed Noma, has been taking the world by storm with his fresh, Nordic cooking. The Nordic Kitchen, his first English language cookbook, targeted the home cook with personal family recipes. This book is seasonally organized to take advantage of ingredients when they are at their peak. Delivering 350 recipes and helpful tips for… read more

Bake for SYRIA, the cookbook and the cause

April 11, 2018 by
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#Bake for SYRIA by Lily Vanilli will be released this June to work alongside  these amazing cookbooks #Cook for SYRIA and #Soup for SYRIA to continue to raise money for relief efforts in Syria.  Contributors include: Anna Jones, Bill Granger, Dalia Dogmoch, Deliciously Ella, Dominique Ansel, Helen Goh, Imad Alarnab, Jamie Oliver, Jasmine Hemsley, Jordan Bourke, Lily Vanilli, Maggie Beer, Melissa Hemsley, Paul A… read more

Nigella Lawson says never call yourself “just” a home cook

April 11, 2018 by
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As Nigella Lawson embarks on her US tour in support of the new cookbook At My Table, fans across the country are making plans to visit the domestic goddess at their local bookstore. For those who are not fortunate enough to live near one of the tour spots, we have a small consolation prize: a wonderful letter she penned for… read more

Christopher Kimball’s Kuhn Rikon Durotherm Casserole at Sur la Table

April 11, 2018 by
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Christopher Kimball's new line at Sur la Table hit the shelves last month and I am loving the items I have tried so far. Be sure you read more about these quality products and enter our giveaway for a chance to win a copy of Christopher Kimball's Milk Street: The New Home Cooking, a  Traverse Power Whisk, and a $50.00… read more

The winner of Food52’s ‘The Piglet’

April 10, 2018 by
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2018's The Piglet cookbook competition may have been the best one yet. Sixteen amazing cookbooks (you can find the complete list here) went head-to-head in a bracketed contest, with the winners advancing to the next round. There were some tough calls along the way, and the usual criticism about the way the judges approached each book.  The Piglet is different than… read more

Catalonia – José Pizarro

April 10, 2018 by
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The Catalonia region, in northeastern Spain, is known for the lively beach resorts of Costa Brava, the energy of Barcelona, and the Pyrenees Mountains. The cuisine of this region is often classified as "Catalan mountain" or western Mediterranean and boasts some of the best chefs (Ferran Adrià) and cooks in the world  In Catalonia: Recipes from Barcelona and Beyond, José Pizarro traveled from… read more

Preservation Pantry by Sarah Marshall

April 9, 2018 by
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When Sarah Marshall started her hot sauce business, Marshall's Haute Sauce, she discovered that too much of her produce was getting thrown away. She made it her mission to use these tossed aside remains in creative ways. In her debut cookbook, Preservation Pantry: Modern Canning from Root to Top & Stem to Core she delivers over 100 recipes for whole-food canning and preserving… read more

These classic books are being overlooked by new cooks

April 9, 2018 by
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For many of us, learning to cook meant spending time with classic cookbooks like Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Joy of Cooking, The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and others published between in the last 60+ years. All of these books share one trait: they are not lavishly illustrated. A few line drawings appear here and there to demonstrate a technique,… read more

Japan – The Cookbook

April 9, 2018 by
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Nancy Singleton Hachisu is a trusted voice with regard to Japanese cuisine. Japanese Farm Food and Preserving the Japanese Way: Traditions of Salting, Fermenting, and Pickling for the Modern Kitchen are two treasured volumes in my collection. Her books have a beautiful elegance about them while being approachable and authoritative. Nancy has brought Japanese food into my wheelhouse unlike any other author.  Her… read more

A new and improved Instant Pot is coming soon

April 8, 2018 by
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  The Instant Pot juggernaut shows no signs of stopping, despite a recent recall over one of its models. Cooks everywhere have come to depend on the machine's versatility and speedy cooking. If you like the current models of Instant Pot, such as the one shown above, just wait until you see what is coming next. Taste of Home gives… read more

The birth of the Bundt

April 8, 2018 by
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In 1946 housewife, Dorothy (Dotty) Dalquist, and her husband David founded Nordic Ware in Minneapolis where a vibrant immigrant community was forming and more importantly no competition for their business. Dotty, the daughter of a Danish immigrant, and David having just returned from service in World War II wanted to bring jobs to St. Louis Park, Minnesota. They began as… read more

Ultimate Pound Cakes

April 7, 2018 by
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The pound cake originated in Europe during the first half of the 18th century and received its weighty name because the recipe called for a pound of flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. This was a time when most people could not read so it was a simple way to remember the recipe. Over the years, bakers have transformed the cake… read more

Is this the world’s most expensive cookbook?

April 7, 2018 by
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 It is not unusual for old and rare cookbooks to fetch handsome prices. Even some new cookbooks, like the multi-volume set of Modernist Cuisine, cost several hundred dollars. However, a recently released tome about pizza may be setting a record for the most expensive new cookbook. The extremely limited edition Pizza from Scratch (available through the NYC bookstore Kitchen Arts & Letters)… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

April 7, 2018 by
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At Eat Your Books we want to bring you the best recipes. Our new feature, EYB Book Preview, allows you to view an extract from the book, sometimes in advance of publication date. Our dedicated team also searches out and finds online recipes excerpted from newly indexed cookbooks and magazines. New recipes from the best blogs are indexed daily and members… read more

Living in a bookstore

April 6, 2018 by
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Richard Kostelanetz (also known simply as "Kosti") is a writer, artist, critic, and editor of the avant-garde. He has degrees from Brown University, Columbia University, and he attended King's College, London. He served as visiting professor or guest artist at a variety of institutions and lectured widely. But those attributes are not the most interesting aspect of the 77-year-old New… read more

April Cookbook Previews and our latest EYB Book Previews

April 6, 2018 by
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April brings yet another exciting month for cookbook releases. My 2018 preview-palooza post contains a breakdown by month of cookbook titles and is updated frequently. I added the following titles and others this week: Honey & Co.: Middle Eastern Recipes From our Kitchen by Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich (July - this week cover revealed - see right photo) The… read more

The cookbook from France’s ‘Jam Fairy’ is still in print

April 5, 2018 by
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Have you ever read a story about a chef, restaurant, or tiny shop, enamored by descriptions of dazzling foods, and gleefully discover at the end of the article that you can buy a cookbook by the chef or artisan? Knowing this crowd, I'd bet the answer to that question is 'of course!' Nevertheless, it's always exciting when it happens, and… read more

ESSENTIAL, Volume Two Sweet Treats for Every Occasion by Annabel Langbein

April 5, 2018 by
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Annabel Langbein shares the best-ever versions of just about every sweet recipe you could dream of and dream you will after looking at the oversized pop-off-the page photos in her latest offering ESSENTIAL, Volume Two: Sweet Treats for Every Occasion. Take a look at the EYB Book Preview and EYB Recipe Previews for this title and see for yourself. It is brilliant. Featuring everything… read more

Julia Turshen creates database for underrepresented voices in food

April 4, 2018 by
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Last fall, Julia Turshen released her latest cookbook called Feed the Resistance, which aimed to foster community and provide sustenance for the mind and soul in this era of activism. Proceeds from the book will be donated to the ACLU. Based on the response to that cookbook, and drawing on projects like Women Who Draw and Creatives of Color, Turshen… read more

The Art of the Pantry – The Art of the Larder

April 4, 2018 by
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The Art of the Pantry: Save Time and Money with 150 Delicious Meals Using Everyday Ingredients by Claire Thomson was published in October of last year in the US, previously having been released as The Art of the Larder in the UK the month prior.  Personally, I prefer the word larder to pantry -  it is the anglophile in me. Larder… read more
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