Dobre Dobre and other baking titles, events, EYBD Previews and more

There are an embarrassment of riches in terms of baking releases this autumn including: Dorie’s Anytime Cakes by Dorie Greenspan (Preview), Baking and the Meaning of Life by Helen Goh (Preview), Sally’s Baking 101 by Sally McKenney; Sure Thing Desserts by Matt Lewis; Lebanese Baking by Maureen Abood (we will have a promotion with a Quick Bites on this title); SCÉAL: Seasonal Recipes and Stories from a Modern Irish Bakery by Charlotte Leonard-Kane and Shane Palmer; Pastry Temple by Christina Wood; Chocolat – Parisian Desserts and Other Delights by Aleksandra Crapanzano; 108 Asian Cookies by Kat Lieu; The French Bastards by The French Bastards; Cookies – The Best Recipes for the Perfect Anytime Treat by Vaughn Vreeland; and Mali Bakes by Patti Chimkire. There are other amazing baking titles already released and coming soon – so this is not an exhaustive list.

My devotion to baking books is readily known to Members who read my post. I particularly have a fondness for those titles that feature international flavors. Books of this nature are journeys to beautiful countries steeped in tradition with the added benefit of no pesky jetlag. Today, I must tell you about just such a book: Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond by Laurel Kratochvila, the author of New European Baking. Laurel is based in Berlin and runs Fine Bagels there. She trained in France but tells us that her love of Polish baking came while on a quest for a good pickle.

When she moved to Prague from Boston in 2008, she struggled to find a pickle that wasn’t sweet. Her boyfriend at the time took her to Poland with the promise of a half-sour pickle! It was then she cast eyes upon a Polish bakery and fell hard for the challah she purchased. Sixteen years later, she married the boyfriend and her continued trips back to Poland continued her love of the country’s wonderful baked goods.

In this book, she begins with a section on working doughs that includes 12-picture grids showing how to form doughs. By page 30, we are deep into recipes ranging from matzo, steamed buns, knishes, loaf crumb cake with fruit, coffee meringue triangles to little nest cruller donuts. The book is filled with lovely photography as well. Please be sure to check out this gorgeous book! Laurel will be in the US promoting the book and you can find those dates here.

Whisk Cooks is a new cooking school/cookbook store in Bellevue, Washington that provides a wide array of cooking classes where students will have a valuable hands-on experience as well as a wide variety of cookbooks. Run by the husband and wife duo, Ann and Don Perinchief, Whisk covers all aspects of hosting from developing menus, to preparing regional and classic cuisines. Ann and Don are excited to share their passion and eliminate the intimidations that often go alongside cooking and entertaining. Whether it’s learning new chef skills, equipping your kitchen or picking up the perfect present, Whisk is for everyone wanting to learn, cook and entertain.

The last few weeks on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Food52 goes to the farm
• The vegan restaurant dilemma
• TL;DR
• Seasonal shifts
• How do you like them pommes (de terre)?
• When I dip, you dip, we dip
• Food festivals

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

• Persiana Easy – Cookbook Giveaway (US/CA)
• New blog index: Ali Slagle’s 40 Ingredients Forever
• August 2025 New Cookbook Review
• September 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary – please note the addition of local cookbook clubs – updating this post frequently
• 2025 Cookbook Preview Post (updated)
• Calendar of worldwide events (updated with these events – and others):
  • Updated all bookstores worldwide
  • Cookbooks and Convos – Philadelphia PA (Line-up announced)
  • Laurel Kratochvila – Dobre Dobre (US/CA/UK/France)
  • Matthew James Duffy – Bread Etc. (Canada/US)
  • Jake Cohen – Dinner Party Animal
  • Hetty McKinnon – Linger (US dates added)
  • Aran Goyoaga – The Art of Gluten-free Bread
  • Abergavenny Food Festival – Abergavenny (UK) – September 20th and 21st
• Cookbook deals are updated when time permits so check that post for new sales – the publisher links automatically update and please see the ICYMI post.

Jenny and the EYB Team

Recently Indexed Titles

Our team of member and pro indexers are working hard indexing titles, both new and old. Below are just a selection of highlighted titles that were recently indexed. ckbk titles notated as such – for more information on ckbk see Jane’s post. Remember to view the most current indexed titles – they will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

• FUSÃO – Untraditional Recipes Inspired by Brasil by Ixta Belfrage EVENTS
• Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savour, Together by Hetty Lui McKinnon EVENTS
• Mushroom – 80 Recipes Celebrating Remarkable Mushrooms
• Sally’s Baking 101: Foolproof Recipes from Easy to Advanced by Sally McKenney
• The Yearlong Pantry: Bright Bold Vegetarian Recipes to Transform Everyday Staples by Erin Alderson
• You Got This!: Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love by Dianne Morrisey
• Simply Malaysian: Everyday Dishes to Cook at Home by Mandy Lin
• Vegan Chinese Food by Yang Liu and Katharina Pinczolits
• Short Stack: Cucumbers by Dawn Perry
• The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook for Beginners by Elana Paravantes
• Salt Hank: A Five Napkin Situation by Henry Laporte
• The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001–2022: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show Along with Product Ratings by America’s Test Kitchen
• The Essential South Indian Cookbook by Srividhya Gopalakrishnan
• Ferment – Simple Ferments and Pickles, and How to Eat Them by Kenji Morimoto
• Abundance – Eating and Living with the Seasons by Mark Diacono
• Family Style: Elegant Everyday Recipes Inspired by Home and Heritage by Peter Som
• The Lost Orchard by Raymond Blanc
• BReD: Sourdough Loaves, Small Breads, and Other Plant-Based Baking by Ed Tatton
• Get Baked: Sensational Cakes, Bakes & Desserts by Rich Myers
• Soph’s Plant Kitchen by Sophie Waplington
• Stacked: The Art of the Perfect Sandwich by Owen Han
• Jar Salads: 52 Happy, Healthy Lunches by Alexander Hart

Member Photo of the Week

Pavlova with fruit and whipped cream from The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook 2001–2022: Every Recipe from the Hit TV Show Along with Product Ratings (page 940) by America’s Test Kitchen submitted by Member MOlson

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Featured Online Recipe

Chicken piccata (page 18) from Waitrose Weekend, September 4, 2025

Add Waitrose Weekend Magazine to your Bookshelf for more than 2,200 recipes. And Waitrose Food/Kitchen/Illustrated Magazine (they keep changing the name) for over 8,800 recipes. See our Help Section on how to add Magazines to your Bookshelf.

Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

We currently have 9,190 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.

Fresh summer rolls (Gỏi cuốn) from Vietnam – The Cookbook by Anaïs Ca Dao van Manen – Publication date: October 22nd, 2025. Be sure to check out the entire EYBD Preview that shares 13 total recipes!

EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 2,153rd EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: All Preview recipes are indexed, whether the full book is indexed or not. Any Preview recipe can be added to your Bookshelf.

• 3 recipes from Mokonuts – The Cookbook by Moko Hirayama and Omar Koreitem – Publication date September 25th, 2025.
• 15 recipes from BiBi The Cookbook: Stories from my Bibi by Chet Sharma – Publication date October 8th, 2025.
• 7 recipes from Recipes from the American South by Michael W. Twitty – Publication date October 15th, 2025.
• 1 recipe and a selection of pages from Franco Pepe – Pizza Chef by Franco Pepe and Elisia Menduni – Publication date October 29th, 2025.

The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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