Lucky foods for the New Year
Half the world has already celebrated the New Year while the others are counting down the hours. After waking up the next day (if you feel like eating, that is), you may celebrate with a traditional meal of 'lucky'…
2016
What Makes a Good Cookbook
Recently, there was a discussion in The Cookbook Junkies about the marks a cookbook must hit to be defined as "good" or in other words "what do we look for in a cookbook". This discussion has been rehashed several dozen…
Two Weeks of Featured Cookbooks & Recipes
At Eat Your Books we want to bring you the best recipes - our dedicated team searches out and finds online recipes excerpted from newly indexed cookbooks and magazines. New recipes from the best blogs are indexed daily…
Best online food writing of 2016
If you like reading cookbooks, it's probably not a stretch to assume that you also enjoy food literature. With the myriad number of online food writing pieces that have come out in the last year, a few good nuggets may…
Why do we drink Champagne on New Year's Eve?
When the ball drops in Times Square and fireworks light up the sky over the London Eye this New Year's Eve, chances are that the drink in people's hands at the time will be champagne. Have you ever wondered why the…
Looking back at 2016 in food
As the year draws to a close, people have a tendency to become introspective. While 2016 may not be anyone's favorite year for a number of reasons, instead of dwelling on the negative let's reflect on the positive when…
The Taste of Egypt - Cookbook Giveaway
The Taste of Egypt: Home Cooking from the Middle East by Dyna Eldaief delivers the sophisticated colors and flavors of Egyptian and Middle Eastern cuisine to the modern home kitchen in unpretentious, down-to-earth…
The Taste of Egypt - Author Article
The Taste of Egypt: Home Cooking from the Middle East by Dyna Eldaief delivers the sophisticated colors and flavors of Egyptian and Middle Eastern cuisine to the modern home kitchen in unpretentious, down-to-earth…
The difficulties of predicting food trends
As the year draws to a close, many organizations have made their predictions for food trends for 2017 (and we've shared a few with EYB Members). The accuracy of such forecasts is spotty, as The New York Times discusses…
A 'food amusement park' to open in Bologna next year
An "Italian-specialty-food amusement park" named FICO Eataly World is on schedule to open its door in Bologna, Italy in September 2017, according to Grub Street. The massive establishment has been plagued by delays and…
Quirky Christmas food traditions
If you celebrate Christmas, you likely have one - or several - Christmas food traditions. The particular traditions in your household depend greatly on where you live. NPR's The Salt explored the quirky food traditions…
Season's Greetings from EYB
This is one of the busiest weekends on the planet, as for the first time in nearly 40 years, the start of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve fall on the same day. Most of us are likely rushing about with last minute food…