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Starting the new year off sans meat

January 4, 2020 · Darcie

As the calendar turned from December to January, millions of people worldwide started working on their healthy-eating resolution for 2020. A growing trend in this vein is to eat a vegan diet for a month, a movement…

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In praise of a unitasker

January 3, 2020 · Darcie

Blame Alton Brown or perhaps even Marie Kondo for the backlash against kitchen tools that have only one use - unitaskers, as Brown calls them. The argument against them boils down to this: why take up valuable kitchen…

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This week at Eat Your Books

January 3, 2020 · Jenny

Happy New Year! We had a fantastic year of cookbook releases and the post on looking forward to 2020 cookbooks provides an outline of what the new year has in store for us cookbook lovers. Throughout the year, this post…

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Food history via menus

January 2, 2020 · Darcie

Restaurant critic Ruth Reichl has seen her share of menus. During her stints writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, she dined in some of the finest establishments in the U.S. During her career as critic -…

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Avoid the authenticity trap

January 1, 2020 · Darcie

Have you ever looked at Yelp reviews when deciding on whether to eat at a particular restaurant? Have terms 'authentic' or 'inauthentic' swayed your decision-making? If so, you'll want to read the article by Mai Tran,…

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New Year's food resolutions

December 31, 2019 · Darcie

As we look forward to 2020 vision (I had to make that joke sometime!), many of us are taking stock in the year that has passed and resolving to make a change in one or more areas of our lives. For food and cookbook…

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Casa Cacao - Cookbook Giveaway

December 31, 2019 · Jenny

Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Casa Cacao: The Return Trip to the Origin of Chocolate by Jordi Roca and Ignacio Medina open to members in US/CA/UK/AU/NZ. Jordi Roca is one of the world’s most advanced chocolatiers…

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Favorite holiday food memories

December 30, 2019 · Darcie

In this season of celebrations, parties, and massive amounts of food, memories are made. The best ones are fixed when you are a child - when the heaping platters and bowls seem gigantic, you are surrounded by family and…

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Food news antipasto

December 29, 2019 · Darcie

2019 is almost through, and it was an interesting year in food. What will 2020 bring? Eater pored over the predictions from a number of sources, and came up with the ultimate list of upcoming and declining food trends.…

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Frittering the hours away

December 27, 2019 · Darcie

Maybe it was all those images of latkes that floated through my social media feeds or perhaps it was the falafel I ate for lunch a few days ago, but whatever the reason, I have recently been dreaming of fritters.…