CookShelfReleased earlier this summer, the new book A Taste of Greece is more than just a cookbook. In addition to featuring fantastic time-honored recipes, it is also a fundraiser for a Greek food relief organization that is…
A cookbook that you probably haven't heard about recently won a prize that you also might not recognize. But once you read the story behind the book, you may want to learn more about it. With Our Own Hands won the title…
The gifted and exuberant Ludwig Bemelmans was trained as a boy for a career as a restaurateur, but ended up as a writer as well as an internationally known gourmet. One of the author's most beloved works, La Bonne…
Everyone has tried-and-true recipes that they reach for over and over again. But even in this list a few stand above the others, recipes that speak to us on a deep level and have forever changed our cooking. The pages…
If the thought of perusing thousands of cookery books dating back 50 to 100 years or more gives you a tingle of anticipation, you should definitely visit the Cookbook and Home Economics Collection at the Internet…
The James Beard Foundation announced it cookbook award winners yesterday. The list is generally different from the IACP winners announced earlier this month, although there are a few books that made both lists. The big…
Dorie Greenspan fans take note: she is wrapping up the proofreading for her new cookie cookbook, Dorie's Cookies, which isn't out until this October. She just Instagrammed the photo above, which looks like part of a…
When Prune by Gabrielle Hamilton emerged in late 2014, people quickly noticed that this was no ordinary cookbook. Hamilton, a James Beard Award-winning chef, decided that she wasn't going to write the usual recipe…
The IACP has just announced the winners of its 2016 Cookbook Awards at its annual conference, held this year in Los Angeles, California. There were no real upsets; most of the winners were solid contenders from the…
Only a few cookbooks can stand the test of time. While many works fade away, there are a few that continue to inspire decades after they are published. One of these is Australian Women's Weekly's Children's Birthday…
The James Beard Foundation has just announced the nominees for its 2016 cookbook awards. Compared to the recently published IACP list, the JBF award nominees seem to align better with the preferences of EYB Members.…
If you've co-authored five cookbooks with five different chefs, writing your own cookbook should be a piece of cake, right? Not so, says Jessica Battilana. She has worked with temperamental chefs and tight deadlines…
