New Nach Waxman Award announced
Kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore in NYC and the Waxman family have announced a shortlist of nominations for the inaugural Nach Waxman Prize for Food and Beverage Scholarship. You may remember that Waxman, who founded…
Book News
A few words about amazing baking cookbooks
Every month, I try to deliver to our Members a comprehensive listing of all new cookbook releases but sometimes I miss a few - either as they are self-published or published in another region where I am unable to search…
The top cookbooks out this spring according to Epicurious
Although Jenny does yeoman's work in keeping us abreast of all the new releases every month, we still like to check in with other food sites about what they are excited by in the world of cookbooks. Sometimes they focus…
Dorie Greenspan says a new cake book is in the works
Dorie Greenspan delighted her fans with an announcement sent earlier today to subscribers of her xoxoDorie Newsletter on Substack. It's time to make some space on your bookshelf, and she confessed that she had been…
Preview of Hardie Grant/Quadrille Spring 2024 Titles
There are so many fantastic books scheduled for release this year and today I want to highlight the Spring 2024 Hardie Grant and Quadrille Publishing titles. Books are listed in the month they are being published for…
Yotam Ottolenghi's new cookbook - Comfort and events
Exciting news! As I mentioned in our January cookbook review, Yotam Ottolenghi has a new book scheduled to be released this fall written with Helen Goh, Tara Wigley and Verena Lochmuller. UK cover on left; North…
Best selling cookbooks 2023
Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2023 which we then included in our Best of the Best of 2023. Now we asked them for their top sellers of 2023…
Best of the best 2023
We have assembled 382 lists from around the world to create our 15th annual Best of the Best. The top book of 2023 is.....drum roll......Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly. As well as…
Gastro Obscura's favorite cookbook stories of 2023
Good cookbooks have well-tested recipes that work. Great cookbooks also tell stories about the food, either personal stories about love, grief, triumph, and despair, or broader stories about the culture and people where…
The best books of 2023 by the experts
Who knows cookbooks better than the owners of specialist cookbook stores? They stock and sell thousands of cookbooks and because their stores are focused on food and drink books, they are true experts. They read the…
2023 Taste Canada Award winners
The Taste Canada Awards were announced last evening at a soiree held at the historic Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. The Awards are presented to outstanding Canadian cookbooks in both English and French languages.…
2024 James Beard Book Awards Call for Entries are Now Open!
The James Beard Foundation® announced today that the entry and recommendation period for the 2024 James Beard Awards® is officially open until November 30, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET. The 2024 Awards ceremonies will be held…