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2014

Author Articles

Lighten up your baking

March 18, 2014 · Jane

Lorraine Pascale's fourth cookbook, A Lighter Way to Bake, hits U.S. stores today (it was published in the UK last October). Eat Your Books sat down with Lorraine to discuss both her new book and baking's resurgence in…

Food Biz People

Clarissa Dickson Wright dies at 66

March 17, 2014 · Jane

Clarissa Dickson Wright was someone who enjoyed life to the fullest. Her career spanned being a barrister at Grey's Inn, to working in two cookbook stores, to cooking in a club and most famously, travelling around the…

Antipasto

If you can't beat 'em, drink 'em?

March 17, 2014 · Darcie

Depending on your point of view, dandelions are either tasty and beautiful rugged perennials or noxious weeds to be eliminated from your landscape. Either way, they have been used as food and medicine across the globe…

Culinary News

IACP announces cookbook award winners

March 16, 2014 · Darcie

The IACP, at its annual conference held this year in Chicago, announced the winners of its 2014 cookbook awards. Stone Edge Farm Cookbook, a self-published cookbook from the vineyard/farm of the same name, took top…

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New science on the "five second rule"

March 15, 2014 · Darcie

Everybody does it. Well, at least 87 percent of people admit to doing it: eating food that has been dropped onto the floor. That is one of the findings in a new study on the transmission of bacteria to food conducted by…

Food Online

Happy Pi(e) Day!

March 14, 2014 · Darcie

Today is the perfect day for bakers to celebrate both pi (the mathematical constant) and pie (the tasty food with endless variants both savory and sweet) because of the natural synergy between the two. Bakers use pi…

Holidays & Celebrations

Green, naturally

March 13, 2014 · Darcie

St. Patrick's Day is drawing near, and that means green foods will soon be popping up everywhere. A lot of food (and beer) will be artificially colored green for the celebration, but there are plenty of green foods you…

Recipes

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

March 13, 2014 · Christine

Did you know over 18,000 cookbook recipes (equivalent to 92 cookbooks!) in the EYB library are also available online? These days most publishers give permission for sample recipes from their cookbooks to be reprinted on…

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Something to crow about

March 12, 2014 · Darcie

You won't find them indexed on EYB, but these amazing animal sculptures made exclusively from knives, forks, and spoons are worth a share nonetheless. The only thing more amazing than seeing Ohio artist Gary Hovey's…