Madhur Jaffrey – Too Legit To Quit

April 5, 2019 by
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Madhur Jaffrey reigns as royalty among authors of cookbooks devoted to Indian cuisine. Next month, she releases another tome destined to be an instant classic, Madhur Jaffrey's Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook. In addition to being a treasured source of cooking knowledge, Jaffrey can now post a new skill on her lengthy resume - being a rap artist.  You may be saying to… read more

Two Weeks of 20 Featured Cookbooks, Over 50 Recipes, & the Latest EYBD Books & Previews

April 5, 2019 by
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Eat Your Books (EYB) is a website for people who love cookbooks and want to make better use of the great recipes from those books. With EYB, a member can create their own personal Bookshelf and quickly find recipes from their cookbooks, food magazines, food blogs, personal recipe clippings, and favorite online recipes. New cookbooks (as well as older titles) are… read more

Bake – Rory MacDonald – Author Interview and Giveaway

April 3, 2019 by
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Rory Macdonald's debut cookbook Bake: Breads, Cakes, Croissants, Kouign Amanns, Macarons, Scones, Tarts is a baker's dream. The cover is brilliant: "bake" and a listing of those delights you will find inside, and the content is thoughtful, beautifully photographed and detailed.  Rory is the creator of Chanson & The Dessert Bar in New York City and was voted one of the top… read more

Historic Cookery – EYBD Promotion

April 2, 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

French Toast – EYBD Promotion

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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

Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Celebrations – EYBD Promotion

April 2, 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

A Basket by the Door EYBD Promotion

April 2, 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

April Fools’ Day food pranks

April 1, 2019 by
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I have to admit that I almost fell for it. Scrolling through my Twitter feed today I noticed Stella Parks (@bravetart) announcing a new format for the recipes on Serious Eats, merging their technique and recipe posts into one. "Wait, what?" I thought briefly, before remembering what day it was. (If you haven't seen the 'foolproof' blackberry cake recipe that… read more

Asma’s Indian Kitchen

April 1, 2019 by
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Darjeeling Express, the popular London restaurant founded by Asma Khan, started as a dinner for a dozen guests in a home where Indian food was lovingly cooked from family recipes going back generations. The pop-up in Soho was wildly successful and led to a permanent restaurant location at Kingly Court, Carnaby in London. The kitchen at Darjeeling Express is run by… read more

Cookbooks are still selling like hotcakes

March 31, 2019 by
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Just a few years ago, the pundits were in agreement that the death of the physical cookbook was nigh. After all, most everyone got their recipes from the Internet, so what need did we have to purchase physical volumes? As it turns out, the predictions were way off base, as cookbooks are now among the bestselling books in all categories.… read more

IACP Presents: Dessert Party for Rose Levy Beranbaum

March 30, 2019 by
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The International Association of Culinary Professionals' inaugural Books for Cooks event is celebrating one of our favorite bakers next week in New York, Rose Levy Beranbaum. Come meet Rose and fete her life, career and 75th birthday on April 4th from 3:30 to 5:30! This event will be co-hosted by Gramercy Tavern's Michael Anthony and Miro Uskokovic, as well as… read more

Chicken and Charcoal

March 30, 2019 by
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This week, The James Beard Foundation announced the cookbook and media finalists and today's book, Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong by Matt Abergel was named in the restaurant and professional category.  Known for their hard hitting international cuisine and restaurant titles, Phaidon publishes books that are inspiring and beautiful yet sometimes more complicated than the everyday cook can handle. While Chicken and… read more

The cookbooks that authors actually use

March 30, 2019 by
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We all know (and appreciate) that food writers create amazing cookbooks, but they also use them for inspiration much as we cookbook aficionados do. Which volumes will you find on their bookshelves? Matt and Ted Lee, authors of several books including The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook, have an answer. They interviewed several authors and developed a list of 18 cookbooks that… read more

The Modern Cheesemaker – EYBD Promotion

March 29, 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

Fundraiser for cookbook author devastated by flood

March 29, 2019 by
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You may not have heard of Nimi Sunilkumar, but she is an award-winning cookbook author and cooking instructor based in Kerala, India. She has given lessons to thousands of foreigners and is the author of the best books on Kerala's cuisine.  Last August, a flood in Kerala wiped out Sunilkumar's home and teaching kitchen. A former student of Sunilkumar, Iris… read more

Alice Waters is having a yard sale

March 28, 2019 by
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It seems that this year, everyone is "Kondoing" their homes, and it looks like chef and restaurateur Alice Waters and her daughter Fanny Singer have caught the fever. The pair is having a yard sale in the Chez Panisse parking lot this weekend. If you are in the Berkeley area, you might want to check it out.  According to a post by… read more

James Beard Nominees 2019

March 27, 2019 by
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If The Piglet is the appetizer to cookbook awards season, the James Beard Foundation Cookbook Awards nominee list is a hearty main course,  which was just served this morning. As I perused the list (thanks to Jenny for assembling this during the live tweeting this morning), it looked like the JBF's commitment to diversity and inclusivity is more than just… read more

March 2019 New Cookbook Review

March 26, 2019 by
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March, how did you arrive and leave so quickly? It's the beginning of our spring publishing rush here in North America. While not as overwhelming as September through November (Cookbooktober), the team at Eat Your Books is busy indexing, reviewing, putting up EYBDigital Previews and working on our EYBDigital Book program. With the constant influx of cookbooks there are always… read more

March 2019 Eat Your Books Cookbook Club Summary

March 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 (April through June selections are shared at the… read more

Why is garlic in so many savory dishes?

March 25, 2019 by
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In the EYB Cookbook Club, member Alicia F recently made Marcella Hazan's simple-yet-wonderful tomato sauce. She observed that the sauce is quite delicious as is, but that she thinks "it would be better with garlic." This prompted several other members to chime in, agreeing with her assessment (as well as offering variations of their own). Not everyone is enamored with the… read more

Nigella Lawson has created a food photography app

March 24, 2019 by
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Does it seem to you like the filters on most photography apps make food look, well, unappetizing? Most of the filters seem geared toward other subjects rather than the plate. Nigella Lawson was among those vexed by this situation, so she decided to do something about it, and has created a photography app specifically for food photos.  The app is… read more

Cocktail Codex Promotion

March 24, 2019 by
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Cocktail Codex: Origins, Fundamentals, Formulas by Alex Day, David Kaplan and Nick Fauchald, authors of the best-selling and genre-defining cocktail book Death & Co, is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors' unique "cocktail families" approach to give drink-makers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic and original cocktails. The… read more

Revisiting the golden age of Gourmet Magazine

March 23, 2019 by
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When Gourmet Magazine shuttered in 2009, it came as a shock to the food world. No one was more surprised than the magazine's editor-in-chief, Ruth Reichl. In her new book Save Me the Plums (out April 2), Reichl talks about her decade at the helm of Gourmet. She recently spoke with Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen of Eater about the… read more

Red Hot Kitchen by Diana Kuan

March 23, 2019 by
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It's no secret I love Asian cookbooks. I could cook and eat Asian food every day. Diana Kuan's The Chinese Takeout Cookbook has a spot in my kitchen bookcase. The kitchen bookcase consists of three shelves for those books I use frequently, and the space is limited. Space there is comparable to a New York rent controlled apartment in a… read more

The New Pie – Promotion

March 23, 2019 by
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On February 1st, I shared a preview and interview with the authors of The New Pie: Modern Techniques for the Classic American Dessert.  As you will learn from the interview, Chris Taylor and Paul Arguin are pie gods. Today we are thrilled to share an EYBDigital Preview and giveaway for this amazing book! Please note, The New Pie is our baking selection for May… read more
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