Eat Your BooksCookShelf

2024

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Writing about food is all about the spin

February 29, 2024 · Jenny

Last night I placed seasoned and very lightly breaded chicken drumsticks in the oven to bake at 400 degrees for 45 minutes along with a side dish of loaded mashed potatoes (think cheesy mashed). At 45 minutes, I went to…

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Customers decry wonky Wonka experience

February 28, 2024 · Darcie

The easy access to AI image generators have made it almost absurdly easy to get lifelike renditions of scenes that have not and will not ever exist. I've seen dreamy "libraries" and even entire "houses" rendered by AI…

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EYB and ckbk livestream Q & A

February 28, 2024 · Jane

Last May we announced that we have connected the EYB database to ckbk’s library of digital cookbooks. ckbk is a cookbook subscription site where you can access the full content of more than 800 great cookbooks, the…

Holidays & Celebrations

Leap Day food deals

February 27, 2024 · Darcie

We have an extra day this month, courtesy of the Gregorian calendar that doesn't quite keep up with the Earth's orbit. Whether you enjoy having another day in the year or wish February would be over sooner, you can take…

Food Online

February EYB Cookbook Club Summary

February 26, 2024 · Jenny

Each month we offer at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. This month we cooked from our favorite recipe from any cookbook, magazine, blog or online option: Cooking: 5 Ingredients…

New Cookbooks

February 2024 New Cookbook Review

February 26, 2024 · Jenny

We need to pump the brakes on how fast the months keep flying by. One minute I'm working on the preview post for the year and the next thing I know the year is whirling past me at wicked speed. Are we ready for 2025?…

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Food news antipasto

February 25, 2024 · Darcie

When Ina Garten announced in 2019 that she was working on a memoir, she said that the book would be published by Celadon Books, a subsidiary of Macmillan, which was no doubt excited to be the home of a surefire…

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Why are there so many food recalls?

February 24, 2024 · Darcie

If our US Members feel like they are seeing far more food recall notices than they have seen before, that's because the number of recalls has mushroomed in the last few years. Since 2018, the amount of food recalls…

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On losing a favorite food

February 21, 2024 · Darcie

Growing up in a landlocked state in the middle of the continent (smack dab in the middle; the geographic center of North America is just north of my hometown), I did not encounter much seafood other than the occasional…