Malta - Cookbook Giveaway
Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Malta: Mediterranean Recipes From the Islands by Simon Bajada. Malta: Mediterranean Recipes From the Islands is a richly photographed cookbook which takes you…
Eat Your Books blog archive
In the bag: how packaged salad took over the supermarket
If you time-traveled back to the 1970s and told the average supermarket shopper that 50 years hence there would be entire supermarket aisles devoted to bagged salad greens and kits, and that twenty percent of all…
Arepa Cookbook Giveaway & Quick Bites
Enter our US/CA/UK giveaway to win one of two copies of Arepa: Classic & Contemporary Recipes for Venezuela's Daily Bread by Irena Stein. The author has an event scheduled and it is shared on our Calendar. Arepa:…
The celebrity endorsement
As I was scrolling through Twitter today, an advertisement featuring chef Gordon Ramsay appeared in my feed. Ramsey was extolling the virtues of Triscuit crackers, something the chef has been doing since February,…
Angel hair pasta is back
I was puzzled when I saw the tweet from Eater stating that angel hair pasta was making a comeback. "Had it ever really left?" I wondered. As I discovered, this is only because I live with an angel hair fanatic: every…
August 2023 EYB Cookbook Club Summary
Each month we offer at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. This month we cooked from our favorite titles, blogs and online recipe sources. For past EYB Cookbook Club summaries,…
The rise of the orange yolk
When I was growing up I had the luxury of eating only farm fresh eggs because my grandmother raised chickens. Of course, when you're a child you do not recognize the luxuries you have; I wanted to get the pure white…
Food news antipasto
As if people in the US didn't have enough to worry about with oppressive heat in multiple locations, hurricanes AND an earthquake in California, and tornados in the South and Midwest, now we have to be careful about…
Taste Canada releases shortlist for 2023 awards
Now in its 26th year, Taste Canada Awards / Les Lauréats des Saveurs du Canada has announced its shortlist of cookbooks vying for a coveted culinary writing award. Seventy-six cookbooks entered the competition, written…
September 2023 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…
Bake it Better cookbook preview, author events, recipes, EYBD Previews, and More
The beginning of cookbook season has snuck up on us, once again. Cookbooktober (August through November) is the most wonderful and busiest time of the year. This week, I would like to point out a few authors who will be…
Putting a lid on it
Kitchen storage is a source of endless fascination and often frustration for people who love to cook. Most of us are not blessed with enormous kitchens that have bespoke cabinets to house anything and everything…