Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

September 23, 2016 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… read more

What it’s like to cook in Julia’s kitchen

September 23, 2016 by
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We've written before about La Pitchoune, Julia and Paul Child's home in Provence, France. The house is now available for rent through Airbnb, and Julia Moskin of The New York Times recently rented it for a week and wrote about her experience. While it's not clear whether any of the cookware or utensils that hang from the pegboard that Child… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Damn Delicious

September 22, 2016 by
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Popular blogger, Chungah Rhee's new book, Damn Delicious, promises 100 super easy, super fast recipes. You can learn more about this book in our recipe post that includes three great recipes that work for dinner or a party.  We're delighted to offer 3 copies of this book in our giveaway for EYB Members in U.S.  One of the entry options is to… read more

Recipes from Damn Delicious

September 22, 2016 by
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Chungah Rhee has written her first cookbook Damn Delicious. She is the voice behind the popular blog of the same name. Her fans love her recipes and after trying a few myself, I agree. They are easy, fast but don't require overly processed. pre-made ingredients.  Recently, I made the Bang Bang Chicken from the book and it was a hit.… read more

Berry leaves GBBO; Hollywood remains

September 22, 2016 by
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In an update to the drama surrounding The Great British Bake Off's move from BBC to Channel 4, host Mary Berry has announced that she will not be involved with the new show. However, Paul Hollywood has signed a three-year deal with the network, making him the only original host making the move. Berry said that loyalty to the BBC,… read more

T. Susan Chang’s new podcast

September 21, 2016 by
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T. Susan Chang, who you likely remember wrote weekly EYB blog posts about cookbooks and whose work regularly appears in the Boston Globe, on NPR and other major news outlets, has an exciting new project: her very own podcast. Called The Level Teaspoon, it's all about our favorite subject - cookbooks. Each week Susie will look at several of the latest cookbook releases, discuss what's happening in the… read more

A look at online cookbook clubs

September 21, 2016 by
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Many cookbook lovers attempt to start a cookbook club but discover that schedules are difficult to coordinate, folks back out at the last minute and unless you can develop a core group of committed individuals, it becomes more of a headache than a delicious experience. One of the ways to lessen the headache and still enjoy the camaraderie of discussing… read more

Remembering Dorothy Cann Hamilton

September 20, 2016 by
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Over the weekend, the culinary world lost one of its most influential, if not its most well known, members. Dorothy Cann Hamilton, 67, founder of the International Culinary Center (formerly known as the French Culinary Institute), died in an automobile accident on September 16.  Hamilton founded ICC in 1984, as an extension of her family's mechanical trades education institute. First… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – The Happy Cook

September 20, 2016 by
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Daphne Oz is one busy woman. A co-host on the wildly successful daytime cooking show, The Chew, a wife and busy mom of two small children, yet she still has time to write a beautiful book, The Happy Cook: 125 Recipes for Eating Every Day Like It's the Weekend.  The global flavors sprinkled throughout this title are appreciated by this… read more

Author Interview with Daphne Oz

September 20, 2016 by
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Affectionately called the Fresh Face of Healthy Living by her co-hosts of The Chew, Daphne Oz, has somehow found time to write another cookbook amidst a television career and two small children. The Happy Cook: 125 Recipes for Eating Every Day Like It's the Weekend istruly impressive. I am a fan of international flavors and Daphnehas packed global dishes in this collection… read more

Exhibit on Ferran Adrià opens in Florida museum

September 19, 2016 by
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  His restaurant may be shuttered, but you can learn about the work of Ferran Adrià, from his groundbreaking el Bulli restaurant and beyond, in a new exhibit hosted by the Salvador Dalí museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. In an email Q&A, Bloomberg Business News asked Adrià to discuss the exhibit. The museum will highlight Adrià's"culinary work from tabletop pieces and flatware he's… read more

China: The Cookbook

September 19, 2016 by
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Phaidon is known for their dedication to publishing epic tomes focusing on international cuisine for the cookbook loving public. One of their latest releases, China: The Cookbook, presented a daunting task for its authors. The authors, Chan Kei-lum, 75, and his wife, Diora Fong Hui-lan, 65, initially declined Phaidon's offer to write this title. They felt that attempting to define… read more

The resurgence of Guy Fieri

September 18, 2016 by
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Guy Fieri's career has had its ups and downs, but the chef and television host is currently enjoying an upswing in popularity, says Grub Street, which chronicles his recent positive press. It's a bit of a turnaround for the colorful Fieri, who has been ridiculed by the likes of Anthony Bourdain and restaurant critic Pete Wells. But despite this, Fieri's… read more

Taste & Technique – Naomi Pomeroy

September 18, 2016 by
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Naomi Pomeroy's debut cookbook, Taste & Technique, has been well worth the long wait. I have been waiting for this award-winning chef to release a cookbook since her Top Chef Masters' appearance in 2011. Taste & Technique: Recipes to Elevate Your Home Cooking is, in my estimation, the equivalent of an at-home culinary course in nearly 400 pages. Those pages contain… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Taste & Technique

September 18, 2016 by
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James Beard Award-winning and self-made chef Naomi Pomeroy's debut cookbook, Taste & Technique features nearly 140 lesson-driven recipes designed to improve the home cook's understanding of techniques and flavor combinations in order to produce simple, but show-stopping meals. The author understands that the best recipes are the ones that make you a better cook. What I particularly love about Naomi Pomeroy is… read more

‘Tis the season for change

September 17, 2016 by
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  Eating seasonally didn't used to be a conscious decision - the food on one's plate was almost all local, so one naturally followed the seasons when preparing meals. In the era of supermarket produce flown in from all points, however, eating with the seasons has been become a choice rather than a necessity. Yet people who love food still… read more

The Essence of French Cooking by Michel Roux

September 17, 2016 by
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Michel Roux shares his seventy years of experience in The Essence of French Cooking, a picturesque culinary journey through France highlighting its glorious food. Roux unabashedly taunts his great love of France, stating that he has visited over sixty countries during his career, but only in France has he encountered a wealth of resources and diversity of produce. I am a… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

September 16, 2016 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 now 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… read more

When vicarious eating becomes real

September 16, 2016 by
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In many different posts over the past three years I have mentioned traveling vicariously through cooking. Cookbooks and recipe blogs allows us to experience foods - or at least their approximation - of places we'll likely never to get to visit. Sometimes, however, we are fortunate enough to visit these locations and experience the food firsthand. Then we can finally… read more

Cookbook Giveaway – Big Bad Breakfast

September 16, 2016 by
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From the James Beard Award winner, Top Chef Masters contestant, and acclaimed author comes Big Bad Breakfast - an ode to the joys and rituals of the Southern breakfast, with 75 recipes inspired by the author's popular restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi. John Currence is one of the most celebrated and well-loved chefs in the South. Among his string of highly successful restaurants in… read more

Three recipes from Big Bad Breakfast by John Currence

September 16, 2016 by
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Big Bad Breakfast, John Currence's latest title, will have you rethinking breakfast in a most delicious way. This is not breakfast at your local diner - this is breakfast on high octane.  The James Beard Award winning acclaimed author delivers 75 recipes inspired by his popular restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi. A fun book devoted to breakfast in all her Southern… read more

Thomas Keller’s response to a bad review

September 15, 2016 by
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  One of the biggest negative restaurant reviews of the past year involved Thomas Keller's lauded New York City restaurant Per Se. Back in January, Pete Wells (who we discussed earlier this week) downgraded the establishment from four stars to only two. Chef Keller spoke with Town & Country Magazine on the fallout from that review and what the future… read more

Palestine on a Plate

September 15, 2016 by
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Palestine on a Plate is a beautiful cookbook written by Joudie Kalla, an accomplished Palestinian chef. In this vibrant book, she showcases food from her mother's kitchen with ingredients that were used by generations before her.  Interlink Publishing is donating half of the profits from the sale of the US edition of this cookbook to support the Nablus-based Palestinian House of Friendship.… read more

Trouble ahead for the GBBO?

September 14, 2016 by
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  Two recent announcements have shaken the foundations of Britain's most popular television program. The first announcement was that the Great British Bake Off (GBBO) was moving from the public-service BBC to commercial station Channel 4. If that wasn't enough drama, two of the show's hosts - Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc - said they were not going to follow… read more

Soup Swap Comforting Recipes to Make and Share

September 14, 2016 by
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Kathy Gunst is a food writer and the author of numerous cookbooks. She is the "Resident Chef" on Here and Now on WBUR, the NPR station in Boston. Kathy was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award in 2000 for her work on this show.  Her newest title, Soup Swap, is sure to make our chilly days deliciously warmer. Be sure to enter… read more
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