CookShelfDonna Currie always knew she would write a book. At first she thought it would be a fantasy novel, but luckily for us she turned to writing about food. Her cookbook Make Ahead Bread provides time-stressed bakers with an…
Did you know that maple syrup was promoted as an alternative sweetener decades before high-fructose corn syrup was even invented? Or that "Meatless Mondays" date back 100 years? A new video series out Tuesday from…
Cal Peternell might not yet be a celebrity, but the restaurant where he's a chef is certainly well-known: the legendary Chez Panisse. Chef Peternell has just released a cookbook, Twelve Recipes, inspired not by the…
Cal Peternell, chef of legendary San Francisco restaurant Chez Panisse, has always cooked for his family. However, when his oldest son was leaving for college, Peternell realized that while he prepared delicious meals…
Did you know adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to build your personal recipe collection? You can now do this even if you have a free membership! Try it out now and see how easy it is.…
Gabrielle Hamilton is celebrating the 15th anniversary of her NYC restaurant Prune. Coinciding with this milestone is a cookbook named after the eatery. Prune goes against the trend of lavishly photographed,…
In the last few years, news articles have repeated a theme that the dinner party is dead. Various explanations have been offered for the dinner party's demise, from frenetic schedules to the trend toward casualness to…
In an age where nearly every cooking show focuses on conflict and outsized personality, Jacques Pépin stands out. For nearly 25 years, Pépin has starred in low-key, straightforward cooking shows through the public…
I don't usually make a big deal about typefaces in cookbooks, except to complain when they are too small. But every once in a while the jackets all suddenly start to look eerily similar, and once you figure out why you…
Popular blogger Cathy Barrow created Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Kitchen in 2009, focusing on food preservation and maintaining her "practical pantry." The blog really took off in 2011 when she co-created Charcutepalooza, a…
Blogger Cathy Barrow focuses on food preservation which naturally leads to maintaining a "practical pantry." She's just released her first cookbook, Mrs. Wheelbarrow's Practical Pantry. You can learn more about Cathy's…
Holidays meals are wonderful occasions when family and friends come together to share festive foods and celebrate. Since U.S. Thanksgiving is less than a month away, with the other major holidays not far behind, it's…
