Cookie dough craze sweeps the nation

May 19, 2017 by
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  A recent tweet about a new food truck in my city made me do a double-take. Dozens of food trucks line up along several city blocks in the downtown area, but this one is serving something that none of the others have attempted: cookie dough. This is just the latest in a craze that has swept across the US… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

May 19, 2017 by
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Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy - but you don't have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest finds. Every day recipes are added from the best blogs and websites. As a member, you can also add your… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Quick and Easy Thai

May 18, 2017 by
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Quick and Easy Thai Recipes by Jean-Pierre Gabriel contains recipes that have been selected and adapted from his original book, Thailand: The Cookbook.  For more information on this cookbook, please see our review post  which shares a recipe for Crab Fried Rice. We are pleased to offer three copies of this title to our EYB Members in the US, Canada, UK and Australia.… read more

What do chefs plant in their gardens?

May 18, 2017 by
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It's always informative to learn what chefs keep in their home kitchens. Sometimes the quality and breadth of those ingredients can invoke a twinge of inferiority for one's home pantry. The same can happen when you learn about what chefs grow in their garden. Or maybe it's just me. After reading Australian Gourmet Traveller's article on what chefs grow in… read more

Quick and Easy Thai Recipes – Jean-Pierre Gabriel

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Quick & Easy Thai Recipes by Jean-Pierre Gabriel contains recipes that have been selected and adapted  to be "quick and easy" from his original more in-depth book, Thailand: The Cookbook.  The author spent years traveling Thailand to compile this tome of authentic recipes from home cooks, markets and restaurants to share in his original tome. For Quick and Easy, he chose recipes and adapted… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Food52 Ice Cream & Friends and Mighty Salads

May 17, 2017 by
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The editors at Food52 released two books last month Ice Cream & Friends shares the best of Food52's contributors' recipes such as cinnamon roll ice cream, Saltine-brownie ice cream sandwiches and Burnt Toast Ice Cream. While Mighty Salads, shares the editors' favorite salad picks including Thai Pork Salad with Crisped Rice, Roasted Potato Salad with Mustard-Walnut Vinaigrette, and Fried Eggplant, Tomato… read more

Food52: Ice Cream & Friends and Mighty Salads

May 17, 2017 by
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The editors at Food 52 released two books last month presenting a culinary paradox. In one corner, we have weighing in with 60 recipes for sorbets, sandwiches, no-churn ice cream and more that will make you scream, Ice Cream & Friends. In the next corner, tipping the scales with 60 new ways to turn salad into dinner and lunch, we have the… read more

PBS launches new mini-series on food icons

May 17, 2017 by
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  If you are in the US, you will want to clear some time for the next two Friday evenings. That is when PBS stations across the country will air four documentaries on American food icons. Part of the 'American Master' series, the 'Chefs-Flight' programs chronicle the lives of James Beard, Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, and Alice Waters. The first… read more

The Really Quite Good British Cookbook Review and Recipe

May 16, 2017 by
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The Really Quite Good British Cookbook: The Food We Love from 100 of Our Best Chefs, Cooks, Bakers and Local Heroes edited by William Sitwell shares 100 of Britain's food heroes most beloved recipes and proceeds from the sale of this gorgeous book supports the work of the Trussell Trust which operates food banks across Britian. The only thing that makes me… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – The Really Quite Good British Cookbook

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The Really Quite Good British Cookbook: The Food We Love from 100 of Our Best Chefs, Cooks, Bakers and Local Heroes edited by William Sitwell shares 100 of Britain's food heroes most beloved recipes and proceeds from the sale of this gorgeous book supports the work of the Trussell Trust which operates food banks across Britian. The only thing that makes me… read more

Many editions of joy

May 16, 2017 by
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  Of the tens of thousands of cookbooks published in the US in the last century, only a handful have attained icon status. Foremost among these is Joy of Cooking. The book, in its various forms, has taught generations of cooks everything from how to make souffles to how to skin a squirrel. Older versions, including the rare 1931 self-published edition,… read more

Are chefs getting too much adoration?

May 15, 2017 by
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  In the last decade or so, chefs have achieved rock-star status. We've profiled a fair number of these chefs (at least the ones who became cookbook authors) on the EYB blog, reporting on their new dining ventures like pop-up restaurants in far-flung locations, noting the lists of the "world's best" restaurants, and so on. Some folks, like Drew Magary, think… read more

Give a Girl a Knife – Review, Tour Dates and Book Giveaway

May 15, 2017 by
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While baking one Saturday in 2013, I had Food Network on in the background and heard a preview for a show called Heartland Table starring Amy Thielen. I went to the remote and rewound the promo. I was thrilled - a real cooking show and from someone in the Midwest! Before the promo was over, I scheduled the recording of… read more

Spice support: nigella sativa

May 14, 2017 by
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If spices were classified by Alton Brown as 'unitaskers' or multi-taskers', nigella sativa would definitely fall into the latter camp. Also known as black caraway, nigella seed, onion seed, kalonji, and charnuska, nigella sativa hails from the Indian subcontinent. The most common name in the EYB Library is nigella seed, so that is how we will refer to the spice in this… read more

May Cookbook Preview, Part 2

May 13, 2017 by
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Hello, I'm back like a pesky telemarketer with another look at cookbooks being released this month. Last week, I covered a dozen titles in my first preview article and today's list is pretty exciting itself - from Texas Steakhouse cuisine to recipes from Croatia's Mediterranean coast.  If you wish to buy any of these titles, using our BUY BOOK button helps support our… read more

The financial challenges of cookbook writing

May 13, 2017 by
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We have posted many stories about people who have written (or ghostwritten) cookbooks. The tales include sneak peeks into the worlds of recipe testing, design, the long back-and-forth of editing, finding a voice, and so on. One thing rarely discussed in these stories: the finances. Food52 takes us behind the curtain to explore the 'harsh financials' of cookbook publishing.  There… read more

This week’s featured cookbooks and recipes

May 12, 2017 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

Celebrating another milestone

May 12, 2017 by
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  We are pleased to announce that we have reached 7,000 indexed books in the EYB Library! Combined, the number of recipes inside these books exceeds 1.2 million - a mind-boggling number. To save you from doing the math, that is an average of 175 recipes per book. Some weighty tomes have more than 1,000 recipes.  Among these large volumes,… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Mountain Berries & Desert Spice

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Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration from the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea by Sumayya Usmani is the eagerly awaited follow up to the award winning Summers Under the Tamarind Tree which I reviewed in detail last year. The talented food writer and cookery teacher takes a sweet detour while continuing her journey of discovery through the exotic… read more

Mountain Berries & Desert Spice

May 12, 2017 by
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Mountain Berries and Desert Spice: Sweet Inspiration from the Hunza Valley to the Arabian Sea by Sumayya Usmani is the eagerly awaited follow up to the award winning Summers Under the Tamarind Tree which I reviewed in detail last year. The talented food writer and cookery teacher takes a sweet detour while continuing her journey of discovery through the exotic… read more

Tips for better search results

May 11, 2017 by
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The number of recipes in the EYB Library is impressive and continues to grow. The only thing better than having such a fantastic repository of recipes is the ability to find just the one you are looking for. To that end, we are providing a brief tutorial on different ways to search for recipes in the Library. Remember, you can… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – My Modern Indian Kitchen

May 11, 2017 by
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My Modern Indian Kitchen: Over 60 Recipes for Home-Cooked Indian Food by Nitisha Patel is a collection of foolproof Indian recipes offering ideas for everything from street food through desserts. For more information on this title, please see our review and recipe post. We are pleased to offer three copies of this title to our EYB Members - two winners in the… read more

My Modern Indian Kitchen

May 11, 2017 by
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My Modern Indian Kitchen: Over 60 Recipes for Home-Cooked Indian Food by Nitisha Patel is a collection of foolproof Indian recipes offering ideas for everything from street food through desserts. Nitisha's interest in food began early - her parents would give her a large bag of peas to pod in return for a treat. After high school, she attended the… read more

Even star chefs have things to learn

May 10, 2017 by
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  Working with thin laminated doughs like phyllo can strike fear in the even the most confident cook. But even if your technique isn't perfect, you shouldn't be afraid to jump in and try making something with it, says Yotam Ottolenghi. Even the celebrated chef admits to being intimidated by these types of dough. Even though he was trained as… read more

Cooking with Cocktails

May 10, 2017 by
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In Kristy Gardner's Cooking with Cocktails: 100 Spirited Recipes, recipes based in Italian and French roots are blended with spirits - those of the libation variety. One hundred recipes with alcohol - sign me up! Julia Child said it best "I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food". Myself, I'm not a wine drinker - although I… read more
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