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2020

Antipasto

Recreating lost family recipes

November 20, 2020 · Darcie

Most family recipes handed down from generation to generation relied on a tradition of daughters learning how to cook a dish from their mothers or grandmothers. It wasn't until very recently that written recipes became…

New Cookbooks

November 2020 New Cookbook Review

November 20, 2020 · Jenny

Welcome to the last unofficial month of the totally unofficial Cookbooktober. November has some exciting titles but far less in number than October. It seems as though I was just finishing up October's epic review…

Food Online

December 2020 Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup

November 18, 2020 · Jenny

As our members know, each month we offer at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around the interwebs and we’d like to highlight those for those members who…

Food Biz People

News from the Jacques Pépin Foundation

November 17, 2020 · Darcie

In 2016, iconic chef Jacques Pépin, along with his daughter Claudine Pépin and son-in-law Rollie Wesen, created The Jacques Pépin Foundation. The JPF supports community kitchens that offer free life skills and culinary…

Antipasto

It's okay to hate cooking (really)

November 16, 2020 · Darcie

Whenever people hear that I collect cookbooks, they logically assume that I love to cook. That is true most days, but not always. There are times when I cannot stomach the thought of chopping a vegetable or stirring a…