Sleeper books of 2014
The year has come and gone, and along with it the rising and falling tides of popular cookbooks, the best of which appear in EYB's awesome comprehensive list. Every year, there are a few cookbooks that catch my eye but…
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Risking it all on feast day
So I'm trying a completely new recipe for Christmas this year - Andrea Nguyen's Peking duck from her vietworldkitchen.com blog. That is how I found myself in the kitchen last night inflating two ducks with my exercise…
The Cookie Countdown
I am, and always have been, a cookie person. I'm happiest when there's a nearly-full cookie box or jar somewhere in the kitchen, just waiting for me to have an excuse: a story filed, a disagreeable chore completed, or…
In a pickle! 2014's preserving books
It's mid-December, which means that those of us in the Northern hemisphere are enjoying the hard work we did months ago, in the form of Mason jars full of glowing preserves and crisp pickles plucked right off the pantry…
Globetrotting vegetarians
Vegetarian cookbooks are not what they once were - that is to say, big on brown rice and a few other Asian pantry ingredients, or filled end to end with pasta and cheese. No, they travel everywhere and anywhere, and if…
Glass class
If you're like most of us living in the U.S., this week you're currently scrambling with shopping lists and cleaning and agonizing over the weather forecast (which, at least on the East coast of North America, is dire)…
November cookbook roundup
Every month Susie Chang reviews new cookbook releases and notes trends in the United States. And she may also occasionally throw in a review of a "not-quite cookbook." And for our non-U.S. members, Jane and Fiona…
Straight outta Brooklyn...
A while back I noticed a new adjective creeping into my cookbook reviews. "The latest Brooklyn bakery book". "Yet another Brooklyn bistro book". "Another hip Brooklyn-based title from [X] Press." So - just for fun - I…
In a word: Chefs
You know the cookbook season is in full swing when the coffee-table books start arriving (ker-THUNK on the porch!). The spines are the first thing you notice, stark and black, with a single word emblazoned across…
The Font That Ate 2014
I don't usually make a big deal about typefaces in cookbooks, except to complain when they are too small. But every once in a while the jackets all suddenly start to look eerily similar, and once you figure out why you…
October 2014 Cookbook Roundup
Every month Susie Chang reviews new cookbook releases and notes trends in the United States. And she may also occasionally throw in a review of a "not-quite cookbook." And for our non-U.S. members, Jane and Fiona…
Dorie's "behind the kitchen door" desserts
Dorie Greenspan, part-time Parisian and patron saint of American home bakers, is out with her 11th cookbook, Baking Chez Moi (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in stores now. (You can enter our contest for your chance to win…