Favourites across the board
Tessa Kiros combines her love of food, travel, and world cultures to create international best-selling cookbooks. Born in London to a Finnish mother and Greek-Cypriot father, she and her family moved to South Africa…
Author Articles
Deliciously gluten-free
Erin Scott describes herself as an "unabashed home cook, photographer, and Berkeley dweller who has always been obsessed with food." After being diagnosed with celiac disease several years ago and discovering that both…
Building blocks of Mexican cuisine
Hugh Carpenter is an acclaimed teacher and award-winning cookbook author. He has teamed up again with photographer Teri Sandison for a primer on contemporary Mexican cuisine with Mexican Flavors. (You can enter our…
Lost in translation: notes from The Messy Baker
Charmian Christie is the force behind the blog The Messy Baker, and her writing has been featured in magazines like Natural Health, Relish, More, Edible Toronto, and The Globe & Mail. Charmian has just released her…
Why it's better from scratch
Ivy Manning is a Portland, Oregon-based food and travel writer, food stylist, and cookbook author. Her work has been featured in magazines such as Cooking Light, Sunset Magazine, Fine Cooking, and Bon Appétit. Although…
History to chew on
When people think of Vietnamese food, one of the first things that comes to mind is banh mi. While many people love these sandwiches, they may only know a smidgen of the history behind them. Lucky for us, Andrea Nguyen…
The "Cluck Team" on fried chicken
Fried chicken: whether you love it extra-crispy or cold on a picnic, you're sure to find your favorite style of this iconic American food in Lee Brian Schrager and Adeena Sussman's new cookbook, Fried & True. This…
Orangette pens a memoir
Molly Wizenberg's popular blog Orangette, and her first book, My Homemade Life, are both indexed on EYB and can be found on many EYB members' Bookshelves. Molly has just published a second book, Delancey, a memoir that…
Be flexitarian with Bittman
Mark Bittman is a fixture on many EYB member bookshelves, both because he's written several excellent cookbooks and because every one of his recipes is indexed on the EYB site (15,643 and counting). A former columnist…
Michael Ruhlman extolls the virtues of the egg
Michael Ruhlman is an award winning writer whose cookbooks cover numerous subjects ranging from charcuterie to the importance of ratios. While the chicken (more precisely the chicken fat) may have come before the egg in…
David Lebovitz takes us to Paris
David Lebovitz has certainly kept busy since leaving a successful career as a pastry chef in San Francisco to move to France and begin a career in writing. His seventh cookbook, My Paris Kitchen, has just been released…
The sweet life, sans sugar
Sarah Wilson is an Australian author, tv host, blogger and wellness coach. MasterChef fans may know her as the host of the first season of MasterChef Australia. Her cookbook, I Quit Sugar for Life, has just been…