Where credit is due
A few days ago, when I was making a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies, my husband asked me who invented the recipe. I replied that Ruth Wakefield is credited with creating the first chocolate chip cookie, but that…
Eat Your Books blog archive
May 2026 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
As our members know, each month we offer several cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around world and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might want to…
Food news antipasto
It's hard to top a post about JELL-OMETERs, but here's what I dug up this week. We will start with a feel-good story about a fast food employee. Jaydon Cintron, a Chick-fil-A worker in Kinston, North Carolina, found…
Watch it wiggle
Once billed as the most popular dessert in the United States, Jell-O had lost its luster by the turn of the 21st century. Sales of the gelatin product slumped, and people shared - and mocked - images from garish and…
Meet Ravenous, a new food website
For too long, we have had to bring you stories of food magazines and websites that were laying off workers or shuttering altogether. However, today we're excited to report some good news: the debut of a new,…
The Cook's Companion turns 30
When chef and restaurateur Stephanie Alexander published her Cook's Companion in 1996, she could not have known that it would become Australia's kitchen bible. An A to Z guide to ingredients, from abalone to zucchini,…
Fortnum & Mason Awards shortlist announced
Fortnum & Mason has long been a resource for English cookery, providing quality ingredients to generations of cooks since its founding in 1707. The company’s annual food and drink awards celebrate the best publications…
Food news antipasto
Because of the Easter holiday, food news is on the light side this week, but there are a few tidbits to share. In the mashups you didn't see coming department: Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Natural Light beer, is selling…
Pizza chains are feeling the pinch
Pizza is almost as iconic as hotdogs and apple pie in the American lexicon of food. From chains to local artisanal pie shops to the frozen food aisle, pizza is everywhere. Not everything is rosy in the land of pizza,…
Sourdough science
Do you still have the starter you created when everyone was making sourdough bread in the pandemic? I'm sad to report that my starter died an ignoble death at the back of our basement refrigerator. I'm a serial starter…
Give me a break: Thieves make off with tons of KitKats
This story seemed appropriate for me to discover on April Fool's Day because it sounds made up. Food conglomerate Nestlé confirmed a report that thieves pilfered a truck carrying over 400,000 specially crafted KitKat…
New Le Creuset + Nigella's Easter Egg hunt
Today I discovered that Le Creuset dropped another color on us; this one is called Riviera, and it absolutely speaks to me. I thought Sea Salt was the perfect color to complement my kitchen cabinets, but this one would…