CookShelfYou can take the host out of Top Chef but apparently you cannot take the Top Chef out of the host. Padma Lakshmi, who departed from Bravo TV's Top Chef in 2023, is returning to the small screen as the host and executive…
Apologies for the short notice but I just found out about an interesting discussion entitled Cooking Up Change: Women’s Agency and Community Building Through Cookbooks. It's being hosted by the Harvard Radcliffe…
Fans of Caroline Chambers' cookbook What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking take note: Chambers recently announced that she is writing a follow up to this bestseller. This one is for people who are looking for…
With all of the retro kitchen trends that are happening now, you might expect that all things vintage would be making a comeback in the kitchen. However, even though retro bowls, kitschy decorations, and appliances that…
When people think about germs in the kitchen, they probably have a few items in mind: the sink, cutting boards, refrigerator door handles, garbage cans, and dishwashing sponges. However, a recent study found that there…
March will soon be blowing in like a lion as they say here in the Northern Hemisphere and with it comes the Spring version of Cookbooktober. My 2026 Cookbook Preview Post is growing every day with great titles to covet.…
The banana split was invented over 100 years ago, reportedly by David "Doc" Strickler, a University of Pittsburgh pharmacy student who was working as a soda jerk in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Since then it has been enjoyed…
Last Thanksgiving, content creator Sonja Norwood saw a video for vinegar pie. She tells Today that upon seeing the video, “I was like, ‘What is this?’ And I heard it was a Black recipe, and I was like, ‘I’m gonna make…
Each month we allow posting in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club from any cookbook, magazine or blog and most months we also offer one featured cookbook. We hope that sharing our favorite recipes will help our Members…
It's official - they've called off the divorce. Who is they? Kraft Heinz, of course. The company was going to split in two, with one company focused on groceries and the other on sauces and spreads, but new CEO Steve…
Last week the weather here was unseasonably warm, feeling more like spring than mid-February. The warmth got me thinking about my garden and going through leftover packets of seed to see what I need to buy for the…
February is interesting this year as the start of Ramadan, the Lunar New Year, and Fat/Shrove Tuesday all landed on the same day. As I read on a Bluesky post yesterday, "this means that the majority of humans on the…
