CookShelfWho 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…
Book News Holidays & Celebrations
Today we're presenting our final holiday list (apart of course from our Best of the Best which will go up early next week) - which hopefully still leaves some time to actually find and buy the item. And, of course, we…
Jane and I were chatting the other day and the question arose: Which is the most expensive cookbook? We weren't discussing used or historical books auctioned off or resold, but currently available books for sale on…
Before we get to our regularly scheduled content, we wanted to announce a special holiday treat from EYB: Buy 1 EYB Gift Voucher, and Get 1 Free! Plus you'll be in the drawing to win Nathan Myhrvold's fabulous new book,…
Now is the time we're all compiling lists of books to request for the holidays, so I wanted to post this list from Grub Street of The Top 25 Must-Read Food Memoirs of All Time for your consideration. No cookbooks here,…
When you've been around the food world for awhile, you discover some less-publicized but strongly admired food authors. Certainly not as famous as Alice Waters or Rachael Ray, these are authors who publish newsletters…
The Telegraph recently issued a bit of a diatribe against Heston Blumethal's new book, Historic Heston. In the article, Heston Blumenthal's new book: These faux cookbooks leave me simmering, they write, "The book itself…
There's a good read from the Guardian's Australia FoodBlog on what makes for a great cookbook. In Cooking up a classic: What's the recipe for a timeless cookery book? Sarah Bejamin writes that "Authority, style and…
Self-help books seem to always dominate non-fiction best seller lists, so it's rather intriguing to find this collection from BuzzFeedFood of 19 Cookbooks That Will Improve Your Life. There is one caveat, though -…
It's not often we get to quote from the Financial Times in this blog, but they have a intriguing interview with Heston Blumenthal about a new book he's publishing in November. It actually can be considered an old-new…
M.F.K. Fisher's great-nephew Luke Barr has written a book called Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste which discusses a time when the esteemed culinarians James…
Over at the blog, The Cookbook Man, there's a very interesting entry called The Cookbook MANifesto. Basically, it a series of rules about cookbooks - buying, using, and writing them. It's presented as a cloud series,…
