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This week at Eat Your Books - 7/20/2019

July 20, 2019 · Jenny

Check out this week's recipes, giveaways, cookbook previews and more. Eat Your Books (EYB) is a website for people who love cookbooks and want to make better use of the great recipes from those books. With EYB, a member…

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Sticky fingers

July 19, 2019 · Darcie

When I was 15 years old, I traveled without my family for the first time, going over a thousand miles from home as part of a school club. To remember this momentous occasion, I tucked a glass from the hotel restaurant,…

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The case for cookbooks without photos

July 18, 2019 · Darcie

Images of food are a huge component of many people's Instagram and Facebook feeds, and most cookbooks today feature amazing photos that are close to works of art in and of themselves. It is difficult to imagine a…

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Buttermilk & Bourbon

July 18, 2019 · Jenny

Title: Buttermilk & Bourbon: New Orleans Recipes with a Modern Flair Author: Jason Santos About the author: Santos fell in love with cooking in a very relatable way: experimenting in his grandmother's kitchen and…

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The future of Dean & Deluca is in doubt

July 17, 2019 · Darcie

In the early 1990s, when I was a fresh-faced recent college graduate working in my first "real" job, I also leased my first apartment and therefore had my first "real" kitchen. No more dorm room microwave cooking for…

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The Levain cookie empire expands

July 16, 2019 · Darcie

You might remember back in March when Jenny published the battle of the Levain Bakery chocolate chip walnut cookie, reviewing ten different copycat recipes for the absurdly thick and decadent cookies. (She settled on…

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Food news antipasto

July 14, 2019 · Darcie

After struggling for years to find the best way to store rolls of aluminum foil and plastic wrap that doesn't take up valuable counter space or result in jammed drawers, I spied a method that might actually work. Head…