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

Lomelino’s Pies by Linda Lomelino

January 2, 2018 by
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Linda Lomelino has the gift. She magically transforms sweet treats into beautiful works of art. Her photographs are enchanting and her recipes are killer good. Last year, we featured her title My Sweet Kitchen (and shared her recipe for Oreo and Raspberry Cheesecake). Her books are a source of culinary and photographic inspiration.  In Linda's latest Lomelino's Pies: A Celebration of Pies, Galettes, and Tarts, she… read more

When food is your life, losing weight can be a challenge

January 2, 2018 by
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  Jim Webster has a problem that many of us can relate to. His life revolves around food, and not just because he is passionate about it, but because it's part of his job description. This presents a problem for Webster, who has struggled with weight issues his whole life. In an article for The Washington Post, he details the… read more

Food resolutions for 2018

January 1, 2018 by
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  One day into the new year, most of us have kept our 2018 resolutions. For many people, common pledges revolve around food-related themes, whether it be weight loss, eating more vegetables, or cutting back on sugar. There's plenty of help in keeping your resolutions to be found online. Epicurious returns with its Cook 90 challenge, where they encourage people… read more

The Year in Review – 2017

December 31, 2017 by
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The sun is fading outside my window as the minutes tick away what is left of 2017.  Our friends on the other side of the world have already welcomed 2018, while we are making plans to celebrate New Years Eve. To be honest, I don't believe I've ushered in a new year since the birth of my youngest child in… read more

New Year’s food traditions around the world

December 31, 2017 by
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  New Year's celebrations are happening around the world. In addition to the parties and festivities, many people are ringing in the new year by eating foods that are part of their culture. CNN reports on ten such traditions around the world.  Grapes play an important role in Spain, where revelers consume 12 grapes just as the clock strikes midnight,… read more

Eat Your Books Cookbook Club December Roundup – Part II

December 31, 2017 by
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Today, I am sharing Part II of the December roundup for the Eat Your Books Cookbook Club, our online cooking group, and our second group that is working through Sweet (please see our errata sheet for the Americanized version of this book). Helen Goh, is going to try to join us in 2018. Part I was shared earlier this month. This… read more

The golden rules of mixology

December 30, 2017 by
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  2018 is almost here - only half a day left for our members in Australia, and just over a day for us in the U.S. - and many of us will be ringing in the new year with a cocktail. Getting mixed drinks right can be a challenge, so just in time for our New Year's Eve cocktails, one… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

December 30, 2017 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

Tasty Naughty Healthy Nice – Susan Jane White

December 29, 2017 by
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Susan Jane White is pure fun. How can I make that statement when I've never met the woman? If you take into consideration the names of her cookbooks (The Virtuous Tart: Sinful but Saintly Recipes for Sweets, Treats, and Snacks and Tasty. Naughty. Healthy. Nice.: Whole Food Made Sinfully Delicious), her cheeky narrative in those books, and the joy she radiates in… read more

‘Family meal’ with four iconic chefs

December 29, 2017 by
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  In the 1980s, a culinary revolution occurred in New York City. While the movement was larger than just a few people, there are a handful of chefs that greatly influenced the course of fine dining - and by extension, all dining - in the city. CNN Travel recently gathered four of these influential chefs for a 'family meal' where… read more

Looking forward to 2018

December 28, 2017 by
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I loathe being the one that is putting up the Valentine's Day displays a few days after the December holidays, yet I've spent the last few days filtering through 2018 releases from around the world. Even though bindings haven't been broken in on those spectacular cookbooks of 2017, it is never too early to start planning ahead. The new year… read more

Why aren’t more spices grown locally?

December 28, 2017 by
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  In our regular #SpiceSupport articles we dive into all aspects of spices, including where they originate and where they are now grown. As you may have noticed, a great of the spices are grown in countries other than the ones where most of our Members reside. But why is this so, especially given the recent emphasis on locally sourced foods?… read more

Get ready for New Year’s Eve

December 27, 2017 by
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  2017 is ready for the history books (and what a year it's been). There's one holiday left before we turn over the calendar page, and it's one that is suited for both the quiet, introspective types who will reflect on the year that has passed, and the people who revel in a raucous party, who will cheer as the… read more

Super Tuscan by Gabriele Corcos and Debi Mazar

December 27, 2017 by
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Gabriele Corcos and Debi Mazar's second cookbook, Super Tuscan: Heritage Recipes from Our Italian-American Kitchen, is as delightful as their best-selling debut book, Extra Virgin. Here, the dynamic duo return with dishes that are easily replicated, simple - yet elegant, and so very delicious.  I have made almost half the recipes from their first title and was on the edge of my… read more

Tips for cleaning silicone baking mats

December 26, 2017 by
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  Silicone baking mats and other silicone tools are indispensable to chefs and home cooks alike. They allow you to roll out dough using less flour and to bake gooey items without fear of sticking. The downside to these wonderful tools - besides a fairly steep price tag - is that they tend to absorb odors. Indexed blog Food52 provided… read more

Keeping the time by the Christmas leftovers

December 25, 2017 by
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It's been a delightful day, as for a change of pace we didn't travel or host over the Christmas holiday. This means I was able to spend the day in the kitchen, cooking, baking, and tidying from the rush of holiday baking. In addition, I took some time to scroll through my social media feeds, enjoying the many posts of… read more

What books do cookbook authors give as gifts?

December 24, 2017 by
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  As EYB Members well know, cookbooks make fantastic gifts. There is one to suit every palate and level of experience, and part of the joy of giving these as presents is seeing someone embrace cooking or baking, and sharing in their discovery. Deciding on which book to give can be a daunting task, as the number of great titles… read more

Solving the ‘incompatible food triad’

December 23, 2017 by
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  Can you think of three foods where any two of those foods taste good together, but all three combined taste disgusting? That's the philosophical thought problem deemed the "Incompatible Food Triad", which seems to have been first pondered by Wilfrid Sellars, a University of Pittsburgh philosopher. Sellars used to bring the problem up over dinner with his students and colleagues.… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

December 23, 2017 by
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Did you know adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to build your personal recipe collection?  You can do this even if you have a free membership!  Try it out now and see how easy it is. Browse the recipes below, choose one that appeals, click on the link, and add it to your Bookshelf.… read more
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