Featured Cookbooks & Recipes
Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy - but you don't have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest…
2014
Take it or leave it
You're perusing the ingredient list of a recipe when you notice it calls for bay leaves. You obligingly fish a few dried and crumbling leaves out of the packet and plop them in the pot, hoping you remember to remove…
Fresh from...the vending machine?
When you think of vending machines, fresh food probably doesn't come to mind. But across the U.S., that is beginning to change, as Modern Farmer reports on the trend of farm-fresh vending machines. For now it's more…
Chef Jason Atherton on cooking at home
Jason Atherton's pedigree is impressive: Gordon Ramsay's Maze, El Bulli, his own London restaurants, and outposts in Hong Kong and Singapore. While these establishments feature complex foods, the Michelin-starred chef…
Literal chef's plates
Daniel Boulud's new Washington, DC restaurant, DBGB Kitchen and Bar, represents a homecoming of sorts. Boulud worked in DC when he first arrived in the U.S. thirty years ago. When it came time to decorate his new…
Scriptures for the cook
The third edition of The Spice and Herb Bible came last week, and I did what I always do. I looked up "fenugreek," and sighed with satisfaction. There were four solid pages on fenugreek, with its name in 20 different…
Discovering sumac
Some ingredients go from obscure to rock star seemingly overnight, and one recent example is sumac. Sumac's meteoric rise can be attributed in large part to authors emphasizing Middle Eastern flavors like Yotam…
Of baking and bartering
Baking bread can be cathartic. So it was for Malin Elmlid, who started making her own sourdough in 2007 as an escape from her day job. She quickly became enamored with breadmaking and pursued the hobby passionately,…
Featured Cookbooks & Recipes
Do you find other people's comments on recipes helpful? Have you written your own recipe Notes? It's a great way to remind yourself how a dish turned out and share your experience with the EYB community. On each Recipe…
Celebrate Oktoberfest
We're in the midst of Oktoberfest celebrations, which recently began in Munich. While people think of it mainly as a beer festival, Oktoberfest originated as a celebration for the wedding of Prince Ludwig to Therese of…
Goodbye, free bread basket
The familiar restaurant scenario where the waiter brings you a basket of bread to nibble while you are perusing the menu is fading into oblivion (at least in the U.S.), according to this Yahoo! Food article. The recent…
September 2014 Cookbook Roundup
Every month Susie Chang reviews new cookbook releases and notes trends in the United States. And she may also occasionally throw in a review of a "not-quite cookbook." And for our non-U.S. members, Jane and Fiona…