2011: The missing cuisine
The last week of the year has a special gift for the cookbook-obsessed: perspective. From our vantage point at the very end of a long, busy year of food publishing, we can see trends that weren't so obvious before.…
2011
Holidays & Celebrations Shelf Life With Susie
Holiday food traditions
Just for fun this morning, I ran a little EYB search (Occasion: Christmas; Course: Main Course) to see what holiday proteins our cookbooks feature. The results read like some kind of crazy, carnivorous 12 Days of…
Threshold ingredients
We all love "usable" cookbooks, but "usable" is different for everybody. And one big part of "usable," I've come to realize, is the availability of specific ingredients. Each of us carries with us an internal dictionary…
3 ways with ground beef
Over the weekend, we got the yearly beefer delivery--1/4 of a steer, or approximately 125 pounds. Some 25 or 30 pounds of that is ground beef, which I *could* just turn into hamburgers or chili. Or, I could hit the new…
T. Susan Chang
We've hijacked Susie's blog and we're interviewing her. Susie (T. Susan Chang) has been reviewing cookbooks for years for NPR and the Boston Globe - there aren't many people around who know as much about cookbooks as…
Holidays & Celebrations Shelf Life With Susie
Thanksgiving sides--some better ones.
If you haven't yet drawn up your menu for Thursday, you've still probably made it as far as pinning down which turkey recipe you're going to use. A lot of us, though, don't bother worrying about the vegetables…
More new features
As well as personal recipe indexing - we've added a few more features that we hope you'll enjoy. EYB has become a lot more colorful with the addition of images for your online recipes. If you're using the "online…
Add your personal recipes and clippings to your Bookshelf
Do you have stacks of recipe clippings that you've saved from magazines; been given by friends; printed out from the internet? They seemed so delicious at the time but, once they go into that big, black hole - called…
Roundup season
I love this time of year, and not just because of the cool air and the glowing woodstove. No, what's special about early November is that it's Holiday Roundup season, when I get to pick the top 10 cookbooks of the year…
Post cards from the powerless
As you may have heard, Halloween came early to New England this weekend, in the form of an out-of-season snowstorm of heroic proportions. It wasn't the the storm that was so bad, but the damage it inflicted on the…
500,000 recipes indexed
500,000 recipes indexed - that's a lot of data inputting! Many people assume that this is an automated process - no, it's all done manually! It's the only way we can provide such precise and accurate recipe searches by…
Tracey Zabar
Susie interviews Tracey Zabar about cookbooks, kitchen favorites, and what makes a cookie tick. I confess it: the cookie is my favorite dessert, any time of year, any day of the week, and (if we're being honest here)…