Noted reviewer AA Gill dies at 62
We are saddened to report that award-winning writer, television host, and restaurant critic AA Gill has died at the age of 62, just a few weeks after he revealed that he was seriously ill with cancer. Gill was a…
2016
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…
Items to avoid giving to your food loving friends
We've spent the last couple of weeks focusing on beautiful, practical, and just-plain-fantastic gifts for cookbook and food lovers, so it might be time to take a look at the flip side of the equation. Epicurious is here…
Gifts from the kitchen
For those of us who are passionate about food, nothing says love more than making someone a delicious meal or treat. That often means we look to the kitchen for gifts to give our friends and loved ones for the holidays.…
Cookbook Gift Guide for New to Advanced Cooks
This is the final gift guide for this year. Prior posts covered the Forty Best Cookbooks of 2016, cookbook suggestions for art and music lovers, cookbooks for entertainers and cookbooks for bakers. I hope these guides…
The Swiss cheese of your dreams
Gruyère lovers, this post is for you. Saveur Magazine has just published a lovely article on a rare Swiss cheese that is produced using only very traditional Gruyere methods that date back centuries. Known as L'Etivaz,…
Cookbook Gift Guide for Bakers
The fall and winter are synonymous with baking more so than any other time of the year. What would Thanksgiving be without pie, or Christmas without cookies, or Hanukkah without rugelach or snow days without brownies…
Iron Chef America coming back to Food Network
Fans of the television series Iron Chef America will be happy to learn that the show, which left Food Network in 2014, is returning in spring 2017. The reboot of the show includes a new name: the new program will be…
Taste of Persia by Naomi Duguid
Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan by Naomi Duguid is a "reason to celebrate" to quote The New York Times. Duguid has authored many books exploring various…
Cookbook Giveaway - Taste of Persia
Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan by Naomi Duguid delivers another world to us by journaling her travels. The countries that encompass the Persian region while a…
Quick and easy dinners for the hectic holiday season
Between the parties, cookie baking, shopping, candy making, musical events, family gatherings, and gift wrapping, the year-end holidays make for one of the busiest times of the year. It can be exasperating to fit in…
Cookbook Gift Guide for Entertainers
We all know those people who love to bring folks together around the table with food. I'm one of them - many of you are as well. This post highlights some cookbooks that are ideal for the entertainer or those that wish…