CookShelfWhen it's brutally hot outside, the last thing you want to do is turn on the oven. But when you still want a sweet treat to end the meal, you may be tempted to fire it up, especially when you have a hankering for a pie…
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…
If you've read any older, classic cookbooks, you are familiar with the mother sauces: béchamel, velouté, espagnole, sauce tomat, and hollandaise. These sauces can seem heavy and bland for modern diners. That's why chefs…
More and more of our meals are eaten out of the home, many at a sit-down restaurant. We tend to take the amenities of modern restaurants for granted. City and state ordinances protect us from unscrupulous entrepreneurs…
Ken Forkish's new book, The Elements of Pizza, is the new definitive book on the art of pizza. Following the wild success of his first book, Flour Water Salt Yeast, the owner of three Portland, Oregon eating…
It's peak tomato season in the US right now. Farmers' market stands and home gardens alike are brimming with tomatoes in all sizes and colors. Sometimes it can be overwhelming to find ways to use all of the delicious…
A cookbook that you probably haven't heard about recently won a prize that you also might not recognize. But once you read the story behind the book, you may want to learn more about it. With Our Own Hands won the title…
Scrolling through my Twitter feed today, I couldn't help but notice how many tweets were a variation of the phrase 'Sunday project: recipe name'. Smitten Kitchen said a rainy Sunday was the perfect day for making…
Today is National Cheesecake Day, and if it's a good enough reason for Dorie Greenspan to celebrate, it's good enough for me. Cheesecake's relative ease and make ahead nature are only two reasons it's such a wonderful…
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…
For many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the farmers' markets are now at their peak. The tempting array of fruits, vegetables, and herbs can be dizzying. Sometimes we pass up on certain produce because we just aren't…
Who doesn't love a great pie? Some foods wax and wane with changing tastes (think aspic), but pie's allure has held strong for centuries. According to historical records, approximately 22 million pies were baked and…
