In praise of the microwave
Avid home cooks eagerly embrace the latest technology: think sous vide, air fryers, and Instant Pots. You can't swing a stick on Facebook without running into a group posting recipes for one of those popular appliances.…
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The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook & Product Giveaway
Enter our US giveaway to win a prize package consisting of a signed copy of The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook: Over 100 Fabulous Recipes to Use Eggs in Unexpected Ways by Lisa Steele as well as a selection of products and…
Red velvet: is it time to move on?
With its vivid coloring, red velvet cake is often the top choice for a Valentine's Day dessert. The cake - once a relatively obscure Southern specialty - rose to prominence in the late 90s and soon 'red velvet' found…
March 2022 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 the interwebs and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might…
Food news antipasto
Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. If you are not the type to plan ahead, don't worry, we have your back. Good Food (Aus) has 22 last-minute Valentine's recipes that are simple yet impressive. Likewise, The Guardian features…
André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards 2021 Shortlist
And just like that, it's cookbook award season, with the announcement of the shortlist of the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards 2021. Simon was the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the…
This week: Club Masala and Diaspora Co. discount code, EYB features, cookbook previews and more
A member recently asked if there was a way to determine the percentage of recipes she had cooked from a book. While the member will have to do the actual math, there is a way to tabulate this information: utilizing your…
On saving a restaurant
Over the past two years we have written many stories that involved the pandemic: the Dalgona coffee craze, the spike in sourdough baking, the effects of lockdown cooking fatigue, and more. We also covered the struggles…
Save-It-Forward Suppers -Cookbook Giveaway
Enter our US giveaway to win one of three copies of Save-It-Forward Suppers: A Simple Strategy to Save Time, Money, and Sanity by Cyndi Kane. Fans of The Pioneer Woman know Cyndi Kane as Hyacinth, Ree's best friend. Ree…
Celebrate National Pizza Day
This one almost slipped by me, but once I saw that it was National Pizza Day I could not let it go unmentioned. Pizza, after all, was what got me through my college years - literally, because I worked my way through…
Weekend by Matt Tebbutt Cookbook Giveaway
Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Weekend: Eating at Home: From Long Lazy Lunches to Fast Family Fixes by Matt Tebbutt. Matt Tebbutt is used to spending his Saturdays cooking - as the host of…
How much do you know about flour?
Even if you are not an avid baker, you probably have a bag of flour in your cupboard. Until the pandemic turned us all into sourdough fanatics and supermarket shelves were swept bare, few people gave a second thought to…