The Vintage Baker
Title: The Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Pecan Butterscotch Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles Author: Jessie Sheehan About the author: Jessie left the legal field to work at Baked in Red Hook, Brooklyn as an…
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Saffron in the Souks
Title: Saffron in the Souks: Vibrant Recipes from the Heart of Lebanon Author: John Gregory-Smith About the author: John is a master of spice and has written a number of books that capture the beauty of specific…
The world's most expensive ingredients
Most of us know that saffron, pound for pound the world's most expensive spice, costing up to $10,000 USD per pound. But it isn't even close to being the costliest food, as Fodor's explains in its list of the ten most…
Get ready - Prime Day is just around the corner
If you took advantage of Amazon's Prime Day sales in the past but wished the window for savings was larger, you are in for a treat this year. Amazon recently announced that it was having its longest Prime Day ever,…
UK Guild of Food Writers announces 2019 award winners
The Guild of Food Writers is the UK's professional association of food writers and broadcasters, and is the longest-established and largest of its kind. Established in 1984, it now has around 480 authors, broadcasters,…
This week at Eat Your Books!
Eat Your Books (EYB) is a website for people who love cookbooks and want to make better use of the great recipes from those books. With EYB, a member can create their own personal Bookshelf and quickly find recipes from…
Beat the heat with refreshing cold soups
Much of Europe is currently baking in extreme heat conditions, and parts of the US are pretty steamy as well. When the temperature and humidity spike, cooking can become a dreaded chore. I know that my south-facing…
The wisdom in old cookbooks
Call it a win for the Facebook algorithm: I clicked on a suggested post in Facebook Marketplace for the two vintage cookbooks pictured below and ended up purchasing them. I had been researching the history of Gold Medal…
Perfect Pan Pizza Promotion
Title: Perfect Pan Pizza: Square Pies to Make at Home, from Roman, Sicilian, and Detroit, to Grandma Pies and Focaccia Author: Peter Reinhart About the author: Peter Reinhart is an American baker, educator and author.…
World's 50 Best Restaurants announced
Even though the World's 50 Best Restaurants list has some, well, let's just call them issues, there is no denying that the establishments that land on the list serve some of the finest food on the planet. Yesterday we…
June 2019 New Cookbook Review
It's cookbook review time (yes, already). Below you will find a brief summary of titles that I have had the pleasure of reviewing. If I am not in possession of the book, you may click on the book record for more…
How people are celebrating 'Anthony Bourdain Day'
Last year the food world was devastated when irreverent-yet-beloved chef, author, and television host Anthony Bourdain took his life at age 61. The photo below was taken by Jenny's friend Rona in New York the week after…