Monica Bhide
Monica Bhide looks at how family recipes change over time... This morning I was making a lentil soup for my family, almost exactly the way my grandmother, in India, taught me decades ago. Or so I first thought. Her…
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Matt and Ted Lee
Matt Lee and Ted Lee talk about their beloved grandmother... Elizabeth Maxwell, our late grandmother, had a profound influence on our cooking, though you'll have to banish any images of an aproned Southern Grandmother…
The Observer's Top 10 Cookbooks of All Time
The list is now up at sister paper The Guardian's website. And the top 10 are: 1. The French Menu Cookbook by Richard Olney2. French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David3. The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden4. The…
Best 50 cookbooks of all time?
The Guardian has today listed the first installment of the best 50 cookbooks of all time, as chosen by The Observer's Food Monthly. The top 10 will be published in this Sunday's Observer. See how many you have, and how…
Never mind what I eat...what do you eat???
Although new food books arrive at my house every day, very rarely does one stop me in my tracks. But that's what happened when I opened the familiar cardboard envelope and found What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.…
Essential maintenance
We will have to take the site down this morning, hopefully for not longer than 3 hours, for some essential upkeep of the site. It should be back up by 3pm EST. Once the new version of the site goes live in the next…
Hostess with the mostest (...or not!)
Entertaining-focused cookbooks come out twice a year--before summer and for the holidays (even if their party suggestions are not season-sensitive). I always leaf through the summer ones with the slightly dislocated…
13 ways of looking at a cherry tomato...
...well, maybe not quite that many (with apologies to Wallace Stevens). It takes forever, it seems, for the Sungold cherry tomatoes to ripen. We started them in March, shuttled them in and out of the house during the…
100,000 cookbooks on EYB members' Bookshelves
There are now more than 100,000 cookbooks on our members' Bookshelves. The number of members owning each book varies from 550 for Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One down to lots of books just owned by one…
We Scream for Ice Cream
97 degrees - that's the high today, and that's here in New England. Even the most dedicated home cook has mixed feelings about cooking in weather like this. All I want to do is sit in a hammock with a book while someone…
Congratulations to Susie!
Our own Susie Chang has just been awarded 3rd place in the biennial MFK Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing (administered by Les Dames d'Escoffier International). The story so honored was last year's Gather…
EYB Library now 79,000 books
The import of books data from around the world is now complete, a total of nearly 79,000 cookbooks and books on food from the USA & Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. So you should now be able to add…