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Paying the cookbook love forward

March 7, 2019 · Darcie

As I have written before, I enjoying browsing for cookbooks at thrift shops and secondhand stores, delighting when I discover classic or out of print books for mere pennies. Some of my favorite volumes were found tucked…

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Uses for leftover egg yolks (whites too)

March 6, 2019 · Darcie

I like to bake. A lot. Which means I use an extraordinary amount of eggs. Since my go-to cake icing is Italian meringue buttercream and since I prefer white cake to yellow, this means I'm frequently faced with a dilemma…

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Flavors of California

March 4, 2019 · Jenny

Flavors of California: Cooking with Tommy Bahama is the third book Rick Rodgers has written for the island lifestyle brand. Two earlier titles, Flavors of Aloha and Flavors of the Southern Coast: Cooking with Tommy…

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These black chefs changed food history

March 4, 2019 · Darcie

The contributions of people of color in the United States to food culture and history is often overlooked, even though many were seminal to developing our nation's foodways. Several recent books have tackled this issue,…

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How much story do you want with that recipe?

March 1, 2019 · Darcie

We've all been there: after finding the perfect online recipe in the EYB Library, we click through to the website only to be confronted with what seems like a novel preceding the recipe. We scroll, scroll, and scroll…