The Piglet cookbook contest
Since we are confident that our readers love cookbooks, we wanted to make certain that people are aware of Food52's Piglet contest. It's a bracketed tournament of cookbooks, where they choose 16 notable cookbooks from…
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Food Online Holidays & Celebrations
Jell-O never ceases to amaze
What's not to love about Jell-O? Well, awhile ago we wrote a blog about the ways people have abused Jell-O over the years (see Abusing Jell-O vs. respecting it) but this week (International Jell-O week) we wanted to…
Truly awful cooking results
We've all had kitchen disasters, but hopefully never as bad as the ones that BuzzFeed so graphically illustrates in 37 People Who Are Worse At Cooking Than You Are. Here are a few of our favorites - check them all out…
Food Online Holidays & Celebrations
Tips for easy cake icing
If you're an experienced cake froster (icer), this blog probably isn't for you. But for those of us who ice cakes only on special occasions (Valentine's Day, birthdays, etc.) it doesn't hurt to be reminded of some basic…
More than just the recipes.
I'm just back from the Cookbook Conference in New York, where EYB's Jane Kelly and I sat on panels and hobnobbed with cookbook authors, publishers, marketers, and others involved in food. It was a good time, and a…
Is food more fashionable than fashion?
Over at the Huffington Post, Martha Stewart reflects on the possibility that food may be the new fashion. As she writes in her introduction to Food is the New Fashion: "The notion that 'you are what you eat' extends…
How not to impress a food lover
Thanks to BuzzFeed, and just in time for Valentine' Day, here are several no-no's if you're going on a first date with a food lover. Check out the post for the rationale behind each item: Don't choose a super-fancy…
Alton Brown's 5 most important kitchen tools
Serious Eats has been publishing a series of interviews with Alton Brown that are each, in their own way, quite interesting. We wrote about one of them, Will recipes become living things?, in December, and we've been…
Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
Celebrating the year of the snake
This coming Sunday begins the Chinese New Year. The Chinese calendar is a lunar/solar calendar and other names for this festival - by far the biggest in the Chinese calendar - are the Lunar New Year and the Spring…
Borrow your seeds from the public library
We assume since our members are avid cooks that many of you are also avid gardeners - the two often go hand-in-hand. And, at least up here in the cold environs, it's now the perfect time to plan a garden. So here's an…
The cookbook index in the age of EYB
I don't know about you, but Eat Your Books has radically changed my relationship with the cookbook index. You remember the old days. Say you needed a recipe for quail. You'd go to your bookshelf and try to guess which…
When can you claim a recipe as your own?
Last month The L.A. Times published an article that delved into a thorny problem in food editing - who actually owns a recipe? When can you claim a recipe as your own? In The complicated case of the simple cookie The…