Paying the cookbook love forward

March 7, 2019 by
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As I have written before, I enjoying browsing for cookbooks at thrift shops and secondhand stores, delighting when I discover classic or out of print books for mere pennies. Some of my favorite volumes were found tucked away among faddish diet books from the 1970s, in tiny thrift shops in equally tiny towns that I've visited. Even though I love… read more

A Common Table and CrateChef Box Promotion

March 7, 2019 by
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A Common Table: 80 Recipes and Stories from My Shared Cultures by Cynthia Chen McTernan made my best cookbooks of 2018 list and is one of our May selections in The Eat Your Books Cookbook Club.  This book is one of those sleepers that slipped in with all the major titles of Cookbooktober and because of that did not get the attention… read more

Uses for leftover egg yolks (whites too)

March 6, 2019 by
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I like to bake. A lot. Which means I use an extraordinary amount of eggs. Since my go-to cake icing is Italian meringue buttercream and since I prefer white cake to yellow, this means I'm frequently faced with a dilemma of what to do with the unused egg yolks. Luckily for me, Elazar Sontag of Serious Eats also experiences this… read more

Great news – Samin Nosrat is working on a new book

March 5, 2019 by
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EYB Members embraced Samin Nosrat's debut cookbook Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. It ranks in the top 75 cookbooks as measured by number of Bookshelves in the EYB Library, even beating Ottolenghi's recent book by a couple of places. If you count yourself as a fan of Nosrat's writing or her Netflix program, you'll be… read more

Pleesecakes – EYBD Promotion

March 5, 2019 by
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Now with EYBDigital, if you buy a print book within the promotional period, for the first time you will have access to the full EYBD cookbook wherever you can access EYB - on vacation, at work, in the grocery store, etc. In addition to the digital book, all the features of EYB will be included in the access, at no… read more

Flavors of California

March 4, 2019 by
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Flavors of California: Cooking with Tommy Bahama is the third book Rick Rodgers has written for the island lifestyle brand. Two earlier titles, Flavors of Aloha and Flavors of the Southern Coast: Cooking with Tommy Bahama proudly reside on my bookshelf. These books are my to-go for tasty island fare whether it be Hawaii, the Southern Coast or California cuisine - Rick and Tommy have… read more

These black chefs changed food history

March 4, 2019 by
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The contributions of people of color in the United States to food culture and history is often overlooked, even though many were seminal to developing our nation's foodways. Several recent books have tackled this issue, providing us with better insight on undervalued and underreported work, and last week The New York Times profiled six black chefs - and one black… read more

Italian mayor spouts off on spaghetti bolognese

March 3, 2019 by
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Millions of people around the world have tucked into a hearty dish of spaghetti bolognese over the years. But according to the mayor of Bologna, Italy, the dish that bears the name of his city has nothing to do with the dish. Not only does he disavow spaghetti bolognese, he's recently started an online campaign to raise awareness of the… read more

Nancy Silverton to offer baking classes and more

March 2, 2019 by
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If you live in Southern California (or want to plan a culinary vacation there), you now have an option to learn making from a legend. Los Angeles chef Nancy Silverton will offering classes and more as a culinary ambassador at the new Farmhouse food and event space at the Ojai Valley Inn in Ventura County.  In addition to the classes, Silverton plans… read more

Featured Cookbooks, Recipes, & the Latest EYBD Books & Previews

March 2, 2019 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 new EYBDigital platform allows us to provide  EYBDigital Previews  (sample pages from cookbooks) and EYBDigital… read more

How much story do you want with that recipe?

March 1, 2019 by
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We've all been there: after finding the perfect online recipe in the EYB Library, we click through to the website only to be confronted with what seems like a novel preceding the recipe. We scroll, scroll, and scroll further until we finally reach paydirt. When you are in a hurry this can be a minor inconvenience, but apparently some people… read more

Troubleshooting your Instant Pot

February 28, 2019 by
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There's nothing more satisfying than getting a new kitchen appliance and putting it through its paces. On the flip side, there are few things as frustrating as having said appliance stop working properly or quit in the middle of a critical task. One of the most popular appliances on the market, the Instant Pot, has garnered legions of fans worldwide… read more

James Beard Chef & Restaurant Awards semifinalists

February 27, 2019 by
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Earlier today, the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2019 Restaurant and Chef Awards. This list includes categories both national awards such as Best New Restaurant, Outstanding Baker, Outstanding Chef, Outstanding Pastry Chef, Outstanding Restaurateur, and Rising Star Chef of the Year, plus regional categories for chefs.  Not surprisingly, a fair number of the chefs and restaurateurs landing… read more

February 2019 New Cookbook Review

February 27, 2019 by
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A few nights a week, I can be found searching for new cookbook releases and adding those nuggets of inspiration to the EYB library (and to my 2019 Cookbook Preview Post). Recently, I spoke with Maggie Green on her Cookbook Love podcast about a few highly anticipated titles. In our excitement, we veered off track and in one hour it… read more

Celebrating National Pistachio Day

February 26, 2019 by
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After a long day that included a lot of meetings and a snowy drive in the dark, I settled in to catch up on the food tweets and posts that I had missed by being so busy. Every other tweet seemed to be a reminder that I had not properly celebrated National Pistachio Day. I was disappointed, because pistachios are… read more

Hyperlocal eating gains traction in smaller cities

February 25, 2019 by
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There's no doubt that if you follow food or restaurant trends at all, you've heard about the movement of restaurants to source ingredients locally (and tell you about it on their menus). The latest iteration of this movement is hyperlocal, meaning that the restaurants source virtually every food they sell from within a small radius of the restaurant, including growing… read more

February 2019 Eat Your Book Cookbook Club Summary

February 25, 2019 by
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We have an incredible community here at Eat Your Books that has flowed into our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club and Sweet Eat Your Books Cookbook Club, places where we share our successes and fails in cooking and baking from specific cookbook titles.  This month we've been cooking from the following titles:  Main Selection: Nik Sharma's Season Alternative: The Slanted… read more

Spice support: ras el hanout

February 24, 2019 by
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Over the centuries, signature spice blends have been developed in regions the world over. Most of these blends started with combining herbs and spices that grew in the local area, but after the development of the spice trade routes, people began incorporating flavors from farther away into the blends. One blend that has garnered a following far outside of its… read more

This new strain of wheat could be a game-changer

February 23, 2019 by
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Millions people suffer from celiac disease or have gluten intolerance. For most of them, this means they cannot enjoy delicious things the rest of us take for granted like bread and pasta. While gluten-free recipes have improved drastically in the last few decades, some items just don't measure up to the real deal. However, that may soon change, as scientists… read more

The food sample code of conduct

February 22, 2019 by
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If you live in the US and have a warehouse shopper's card, you understand the power of the free sample. Samples can also be snagged at most large grocery stores and even smaller establishments are getting in on the game. Some of us even go so far as to schedule our Costco trips around peak sample times so we can… read more

Featured Cookbooks, Recipes, & the Latest EYBD Books & Previews

February 22, 2019 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 new EYBDigital platform allows us to provide  EYBDigital Previews  (sample pages from cookbooks) and EYBDigital… read more

The Crock Pot Ladies – Big Book of Slow Cooker Dinners

February 21, 2019 by
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Now with EYBDigital, if you buy a print book within the promotional period, for the first time you will have access to the full EYBD cookbook wherever you can access EYB - on vacation, at work, in the grocery store, etc. In addition to the digital book, all the features of EYB will be included in the access, at no… read more

Cookbook Love Podcast

February 21, 2019 by
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Sometimes I get tired of reading cookbooks. That's when I turn to podcasts so I can listen to cookbook authors and others talking about cookbooks! Lucky for me, there's another great podcast to add to my queue, as Jenny is returning to Maggie Green's Cookbook Love podcast. (You may remember that last Fall Jenny was a guest on the podcast discussing… read more

New Jersey legislature approves the Anthony Bourdain Food Trail

February 20, 2019 by
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Shortly after Anthony Bourdain's tragic death in 2018, New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Moriarty proposed that an official Anthony Bourdain Food Trail should be set up to honor the New Jersey native. "Even after international fame, he [Bourdain] never forgot his Jersey roots," Moriarty said. Now that proposal is becoming a reality.  Last month, in a unanimous vote, the legislature approved creation of the trail. It… read more

Food & Wine’s new feature highlights how pros cook at home

February 19, 2019 by
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America has a fascination with celebrities, and we love to see how they act when the camera is not rolling. One of the most popular features in a supermarket tabloid that shall remain nameless is one called "Celebrities - they're just like us!" It features photos of Hollywood stars shopping at grocery stores, buying bed linens, or walking their dog… read more
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