Snacking across the globe
It's a fact: everyone likes to snack. All around the world, people are consuming more snacks, as evidenced by the $400 billion USD per year snack market growing by two percent last year. But the types of foods people…
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Celebrate every day with Baked Occasions
After years in the advertising business, Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito decided to leave their day jobs and open a bakery in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Baked opened in January 2005 to instant rave…
Cookbook giveaway - Baked Occasions
The biggest and boldest cookbook yet from the baking duo of Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito, Baked Occasions, celebrates a year in desserts. The beautifully illustrated book offers 75 recipes for cookies, puddings,…
Nautical themes run deep for Renee Erickson
Despite owning four Seattle-area restaurants (The Whale Wins, Boat Street Cafe, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle), James Beard-nominated chef Renee Erickson somehow found the time to pen a cookbook, A Boat, a…
Cookbook giveaway - A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus
Chef Renee Erickson is a busy and accomplished woman: she owns four Seattle-area restaurants and is a James Beard-nominated chef. Yet she managed to find the time to write a cookbook. (You can read more about Chef…
A glug and a dollop...
What do you think of those Brits and their chatty, poetical way with instructions? Whenever I read a Jamie Oliver recipe, I prepare myself for an aggressive style of non-measurement - the "glug" of olive oil, the "knob"…
The Moby Dick of food
Even the most accomplished cook usually has one food item that utterly frustrates him or her. For many cooks the aggravation comes from the baking arena - pie crusts, pate a choux, and souffles are items that people…
The history behind fish and chips
Fish and chips is inarguably the definitive national dish of the United Kingdom. How this dish, which features a New World ingredient, became the emblematic meal is explained in a new book by Panikos Panayi. As The…
In defense of dessert
Restaurant dessert menus have been on the decline for some time. Perhaps we can blame the trend on people cutting back on carbs or the demonizing of sugar. Or perhaps it is a by-product of the growing practice of…
Baking tips from Jane Hornby
Jane Hornby has been happily writing about food for over 15 years. Several of those years were spent at BBC Good Food Magazine where in addition to editing many books in the Good Food cookbook series, she was involved…
Cookbook giveaway - What to Bake & How to Bake It
What to Bake & How to Bake It follows in the footsteps of Jane Hornby's last two cookbooks. Jane provided EYB with an excerpt from the cookbook that offers many great baking tips; you can read them here. We're delighted…
Fusion isn't just for food anymore
When you think of alcohol, it's usually in terms of individual spirits: vodka, bourbon, tequila, or rum, for example. The latest trend in the cocktail world combines these distinctive spirits with each other, or with…