Eating her way through history
If you've ever leafed through historic cookbooks, you probably imagined what some of the more obscure recipes and ingredients tasted like. Sarah Lohman doesn't only imagine it, she creates the historical dishes. As a…
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Tips for cell phone food photography
Many of you have taken advantage of the new feature that allows you to add your own photos to recipes in the EYB Library. It's easy to upload a photo from your cell phone directly into the Library since the website now…
The cookbook as comic book trend
The earliest cookery books were simple instruction manuals. A few line drawings might accompany the text, but lavish design was just not part of the equation. This was partly to do with cost; few books had color pages.…
Tips for using your steamer
If you have a bamboo or other steamer lurking in the back of your kitchen cabinets, you may want to pull it out and give it a good cleaning. That's because Heidi Swanson, of indexed blog 101 Cookbooks, is going to give…
Food trends of the last decade
Every year prognosticators try to guess what the next year's food trend will be. We recently saw that vegetable yogurt and watermelon juice are two of the foods to watch in 2017. How well those predictions actually play…
That 70s food
As food trends change through the ages, people often look back to previous eras and revive the popular food and drink from that time. The craft cocktail movement is one example, hearkening back to the golden age of…
How many times should you flip a burger?
Joe Isidori knows a thing or two about burgers. He's the owenr of Black Tap, a NYC restaurant specializing in bold, gourmet-flavored burgers and sky-high milkshakes adorned with donuts, sparklers, and oversized cookies.…
2017 food trends according to Waitrose
As we get close to the end of the year, predictions about what will be the "next big thing" are being formulated. The Waitrose grocery chain has just weighed in on what to expect in 2017 by providing the results of its…
Kitchens of the future
Sous-vide cooking. Internet-connected refrigerators. Remote thermometers that send text messages about your food. All of these innovations promise new ways to work in the kitchen. Some are more revolutionary than…
Sprinkles ride a wave of nostalgia
Who could have predicted that a boxed cake mix gimmick would endure for decades? That's exactly what happened to rainbow sprinkles, or 'Funfetti' as it was called by Pillsbury in the late 1980s. While sprinkles had been…
Twelve ingredients to amp up your vegetables
Most of us want to add more vegetables to our diet, but it's easy to fall into a rut and end up bored by the same old recipes. Peter Meehan sets out to change that paradigm in his latest cookbook, Lucky Peach Presents…
A better cheese storage solution?
Properly storing cheese in a home refrigerator can be a confounding task. Placing it in plastic and sticking it in the deli drawer leads to mold. Keeping cheese unwrapped is no better, as it desiccates and hardens. You…