Your Nutella is safe with me
Classic food pairings like apple and cinnamon, peanut butter and jelly, or tomato and basil work together for many reasons. Complex chemical compounds play off each other and cultural factors can also play a role in how…
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August 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
As our members know, each month we offer several cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around world and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might want to…
Food news antipasto
The strawberries and cream sandwich from Marks & Spencer has taken England by storm. People who enjoy this dainty treat, inspired by the Japanese "sando" may be dismayed to learn that it could soon be subject to the 20%…
Getting to the heart of it
After I learned a few years ago that Italian amaretti are traditionally made with apricot kernels, I thought it would be fun to make them someday. Recently I bought apricots and decided that someday was now. After using…
UK Food Festivals
I was going to highlight these events in my next weekly roundup but as one of these festivals is coming up soon - I wanted to alert our UK Members who may wish to make plans to attend. Delicious has an exhaustive list…
The history of barbecue
This weekend, grills across the US will be blazing with a multitude of meats, vegetables, and fish set atop the racks. Some will enjoy quickly cooked items like hot dogs and hamburgers, but in many households (mine…
Can the can continue?
Del Monte Foods, one of the largest canned fruit and vegetable processors in the world, filed for bankruptcy earlier this week. The filing aims to stabilize the company with interim financing until a sale of the company…
Any way you slice it
A reader comment to a recent article in The Guardian asked why bread slices have gotten thicker over the years. The same reader lamented that you cannot find thin sliced bread in the supermarket any more, and that by…
Introducing libraries to EYB at ALA
In Sunday's Food News Antipasto, Darcie wrote about our experience at the American Libraries Association (ALA) Conference this past weekend - meeting hundreds of librarians, having dinner with the authors of the…
Food news antipasto
Jane and I spent the weekend at the American Library Association annual conference in Philadelphia, promoting our Library memberships. Highlights of the trip included seeing several EYB Members who stopped by to say…
Four outstanding independently published cookbooks worth your attention
Independently published cookbooks offer authors greater control over their work and the publishing process. This approach allows creators to maintain creative control, retain more rights, and potentially earn higher…
Tea innovations
Forget pumpkin spice lattes, the latest thing in beverages is pumpkin spice tea. That, and along with other trends, is driving an uptick in the popularity of tea, especially in the US, which has not always been…