Featured Cookbooks & Recipes
Finding the best recipes amongst the millions online is not easy - but you don't have to! The team here at Eat Your Books, searches for excerpts from indexed books and magazines and every week we bring you our latest…
2016
The secret to better frying
Creating the perfectly crisp french fry or golden brown piece of crunchy fried chicken can be frustrating. How to ensure that the food is properly cooked inside while maintaining a good crust is a challenge. Many…
Eggs-traordinary Easter cocktails
Easter is not a holiday known for its cocktails. Some mixologists are trying to change that, creating a bevy of unusual drinks with an Easter theme. Many of these beverages require a lot of advance planning and more…
Author interview - Klancy Miller
Klancy Miller is a writer and pastry chef. Following her graduation from Columbia University, and a stint in international development in French Polynesia, she earned a Diplôme de Pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.…
Cookbook giveaway - Cooking Solo
At a time when 31 million American adults live alone, Klancy Miller is here to show that cooking for one is something to embrace. Her new cookbook, Cooking Solo, tackles the challenges of cooking for one. While making…
Author interview - Marisa McClellan
Marisa McClellan is a full-time writer, teacher, and blogger at Food in Jars (three times nominated by Saveur magazine for a Best Food Blog award, and winner of Best of Philly from Philadelphia Magazine). She lives in…
Cookbook giveaway - Naturally Sweet Food in Jars
You could say that Marisa McClellan has a thing for canning. The award-winning blogger and author has written extensively on the subject, and her work has appeared on several sites including The Food Network, Saveur,…
March 2016 cookbook roundup
Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is…
The authenticity trap
When people look for a restaurant - or a cookbook, for that matter - from a specific country or region, the question of authenticity often arises. You might hear someone ask "Is it real (Mexican/Chinese/Thai/etc) food?"…
A new creation for Macaron Day
Today is Macaron Day, and in honor of the special event, pastry chef François Payard has invented a new treat: the Macaronut. It's not quite a mashup in the mold of Dominique Ansel's Cronut, but instead the texture of…
Writing for the radio
You may have heard Kathy Gunst on National Public Radio's Here and Now, a live news magazine show broadcast to over 500 public radio stations in the US. Recently Gunst spoke with Dianne Jacob to explain how writing for…
From blog to book to building
There are nearly 300 million blogs in circulation, according to Tumblr, and a great many of them are about food. The most successful food bloggers go on to secure book deals, like Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, Heidi…