Skipping a step
Recipe instructions run the gamut from sparse to confusing to insanely detailed. But no matter how specific the instructions, there are seven steps that Tommy Werner at Epicurious always skips. These instructions either…
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Soda science
When you inspect almost any cookie recipe other than shortbread, you'll probably find baking soda in the ingredient list. Most people generally understand how baking soda works to make cakes rise, but why do cookies…
Review of Summer Berries & Autumn Fruits by Annie Rigg
Annie Rigg is a freelance food stylist and a prolific cookbook author. Her latest endeavor, Summer Berries & Autumn Fruits: 120 Sensational, Sweet & Savory Recipes appears to be the most beautiful of her collection, in…
Excerpt from 'Pure Delicious'
Food blogger and author Heather Christo was once "openly skeptical about the very existence" of food allergies, but when her young daughter had repeated unexplained illnesses, she reluctantly came to the conclusion that…
Cherry on top
Cherry season is in full swing in the US and Canada. The luscious fruits prominently displayed in the produce section of the supermarket (or, if you are lucky, at your local farmers' market) are just too pretty to pass…
Featured Cookbooks & Recipes
Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy - but you don't have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest…
Get the most out of less-than-perfect tomatoes
Sometimes the tomatoes from the farmers' market haul are so gorgeous and ripe that all you have to do slice and serve; they need no other garnish than a pinch of salt and pepper. Other times - or with some supermarket…
Author Q&A with Domenica Marchetti
Domenica Marchetti is a food writer, recipe developer, and cooking teacher who specializes in Italian home cooking. She learned to cook from her Italian-born mother, who put her to work crafting capelletti, ravioli, and…
French dishes to celebrate Bastille Day
Today marks 227 years since the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. France is celebrating Bastille Day this year with an extravagant military parade, fireworks, and other festivities. The holiday provides the…
Review of Flavorwalla by Floyd Cardoz
I fell in culinary love with Floyd Cardoz while watching Season 3 of Top Chef Masters. How had this New York chef who cooks with bold flavors not been on my radar? As is my modus operandi, I went directly to Amazon and…
Reprints of La Bonne Table now available
The gifted and exuberant Ludwig Bemelmans was trained as a boy for a career as a restaurateur, but ended up as a writer as well as an internationally known gourmet. One of the author's most beloved works, La Bonne…
Diana Henry is sweet on honey
It's always a pleasure to read articles from EYB Member favorite and James Beard Award winner Diana Henry. In a recent article for The Telegraph, she turns her attention to a sweetener that has used by humans even…