Anyone can be a cook
If you are an avid cook or baker and make food for others to enjoy, you often hear someone say "I wish I could cook but I just don't have a knack for it" or words to that effect. When this happens I am often at a loss…
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This week at Eat Your Books!
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 can create their own personal Bookshelf and quickly find recipes from…
Uses for leftover hot dog buns
I firmly believe there is a conspiracy afoot between hot dog makers and hot dog bun manufacturers. How else can you explain that hot dogs generally come in packages of 10 but the buns are sold in 8-packs? This means you…
Dappled by Nicole Rucker
Title: Dappled: Baking Recipes for Fruit Lovers Author: Nicole Rucker About the author: Nicole Rucker is a chef from Los Angeles. Formerly the pastry chef of the Gjelina Group (including G.T.A. and Gjusta), Rucker is…
Ottolenghi and Tamini Book News
We have Ottolenghi news! Essential Ottolenghi: The Collection will be released in November of this year. For the first time in paperback, the deluxe boxed set features 280 recipes from the New York Times bestselling…
When politics hit the dinner plate
Tariffs are in the headlines the world over these days. Most of the news emanates from the US, where President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs on a number of goods in various countries and regions. While food lovers…
The Vintage Baker
Title: The Vintage Baker: More Than 50 Recipes from Pecan Butterscotch Curls to Sour Cream Jumbles Author: Jessie Sheehan About the author: Jessie left the legal field to work at Baked in Red Hook, Brooklyn as an…
Saffron in the Souks
Title: Saffron in the Souks: Vibrant Recipes from the Heart of Lebanon Author: John Gregory-Smith About the author: John is a master of spice and has written a number of books that capture the beauty of specific…
The world's most expensive ingredients
Most of us know that saffron, pound for pound the world's most expensive spice, costing up to $10,000 USD per pound. But it isn't even close to being the costliest food, as Fodor's explains in its list of the ten most…
Get ready - Prime Day is just around the corner
If you took advantage of Amazon's Prime Day sales in the past but wished the window for savings was larger, you are in for a treat this year. Amazon recently announced that it was having its longest Prime Day ever,…
UK Guild of Food Writers announces 2019 award winners
The Guild of Food Writers is the UK's professional association of food writers and broadcasters, and is the longest-established and largest of its kind. Established in 1984, it now has around 480 authors, broadcasters,…
This week at Eat Your Books!
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 can create their own personal Bookshelf and quickly find recipes from…