CookShelfWith the JBF Awards being cancelled this year and other awards already announced, there is only one major cookbook award program left: The IACP Cookbook Awards. Earlier today the IACP announced the finalists for its…
This year is now officially half over. We still have six months of great releases coming our way and you can check those out on my 2021 Cookbook Preview - a collage of a few covers are shared below. In the next few…
We begin this week's recap with sad news: influential chef Mark Peel has died at the age of 66 just days after being diagnosed with cancer. Peel worked at various restaurants including Wolfgang Puck's Spago. Along with…
As restaurants scrambled to adapt to lockdowns, most of them switched from indoor dining to takeaway and also drastically reduced the menu options to accommodate the change. Now that they are reopening to indoor dining,…
Summertime is here for most of us in the northern hemisphere and I am sure many of us want to avoid turning on the oven for any reason. This week's roundup will focus on chilly desserts along with cocktails/beverages…
Anyone who has ever pounded a chicken breast with a mallet or who has kneaded a loaf of dough knows that cooking can be a conduit for releasing negative emotions. Some cookbooks capitalize on this catharsis including…
Enter our US/UK/CA giveaway to win one a set of each of the following titles: Summer Drinks: Over 100 Refreshing Recipes to Enjoy in the Sunshine by Ryland, Peters & Small (editors) and Skewered: Recipes for Fire Food…
Each month we offer at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. This month was a throw back month. We have been repeating any of our favorite books and online options from 2020 and 2021. Those…
The Guild of Food Writers named the winners of its prestigious annual awards. We earlier reported on the list of finalists where you can see everyone who made the shortlist. So, let's get to it - following are…
Just as the restaurant industry was walloped during lockdowns, so too did the travel industry suffer. In regions where travel makes up a significant percentage of the local economy, the effects were nothing short of…
Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of The Pasta Man: The Art of Making Spectacular Pasta with 40 Recipes by Mateo Zielonka. Mateo Zielonka, aka The Pasta Man (dubbed so by his Instafans), is a…
Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour, to Suit Your Mood and Appetite by Ed Smith. Ed Smith is the author of On the Side: A Sourcebook of Inspiring Side Dishes…
