CookShelfWe're pleased to present another installment of the "Me and my cookbooks" series. Many EYB members have told us they enjoy meeting members and special guests through this feature. We'd love to introduce more people, so…
Annelies Zijderveld is a San Francisco-based food writer and creator of the literary food blog the food poet, selected by Alimentum Journal as one of their favorite food blogs. Her passion for working with good food…
Tea is not just for drinking anymore, thanks to Annelies Zijderveld's new cookbook, Steeped: Recipes Infused with Tea. Zijderveld finds inventive uses for tea in everything from morning eats to evening sweets. Romance…
Have you ever seen a bottle of pear brandy where an entire pear rests serenely at the bottom, and wondered how the heck they get the pear in there? Wonder no more, as NPR's The Salt explains the process of making fruit…
When there are tens of thousands of cookbooks available (the EYB Library currently has over 144,000 books), how can you possibly winnow down a list of favorites to less than a dozen? Epicurious decided to do just that…
Maria Speck has a lifelong passion for the subtle flavors and rich textures of whole grains. She grew up in Greece and Germany before moving to the US in 1993, and this unusual heritage is at the center of her cooking,…
The award-winning author of Ancient Grains for Modern Meals, Maria Speck returns with a second cookbook, Simply Ancient Grains, that promises to make cooking with ancient grains faster, more intuitive, and easier than…
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.…
Innovative chef Homaro Cantu was found dead Tuesday afternoon on Chicago's Northwest Side, according to authorities. Police are investigating the death as apparent suicide by the 38-year-old chef and part owner of the…
Almost no food inspires brand loyalty as much as the simple condiment mayonnaise. In the US, there is a cultural divide in fans of the two major brands of mayo: Duke's, which reigns supreme in the southern part of the…
In addition to running an expanding restaurant and bakery empire, Joanne Chang has authored two best selling baking books (Flour and Flour, Too). She returns with a totally new perspective in her latest cookbook, Baking…
In Baking with Less Sugar, Joanne Chang - author of the bestselling Flour and a Harvard math major to boot - comes up with a winning formula: Minus the sugar equals plus the flavor. Joanne shares her secrets for…
