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February, 2015 Dear BookmanBeattie, After a lull in cookbook publishing after the holidays, the pace is picking up and each month brings more new cookbooks. February features new releases from familiar names, and the cookbook award nominations have begun.  Lately the news in the USA has revolved around the record-breaking weather. If the weather has you down, take heart with a reminder that the season is about to change. You can begin to celebrate by making a St. Patrick's Day feast with inspiration from our Pinterest board. The team at EatYourBooks

Complete author indexes...with more on the way!

Love Annabel Langbein? Can't get enough of Dorie Greenspan? For these great authors and others, EYB has a complete recipe index. We've collaborated with prominent authors to include every recipe in each of their cookbooks, plus recipes that have appeared online in newspapers, blogs, and on their websites. Dorie's index is about to get bigger with a new column in the Washington Post that we have started indexing.  We've got other authors in the pipeline too, so stay tuned. You can view all complete author indexes by visiting the Recipes Library and clicking on the filter for Compete Author Indexes at the bottom right. To date, these authors have a complete index on EYB: Maggie Beer, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Mark Bittman, Clotilde Dusoulier, Dorie Greenspan, Diana Henry, and Annabel Langbein.

Spreading the word plus a contest

It’s always great to see EYB members helping us spread the word about EYB. A long-­time supporter, Roberta Muir, cookbook author and manager of Sydney Seafood School, is running a competition to win one year memberships to Eat Your Books plus some great signed cookbooks (competition limited to residents of Australia).

EYB Member picks for February

Articles The Art of Eating cookbook competition finalists The oldest, newest, and most loved cookbooks at Food52 Culinary disasters of the famous An ode to sweetened condensed milk Grade inflation Recipes & Collections Patisserie Made Simple online recipes America Farm to Table online recipes Scandanavian Baking online recipes Paul Hollywood British Baking online recipes How to Eataly online recipes More

Dorothy Parker Drank Here

Ellen Meister, author of Dorothy Parker Drank Here (Putnam, February 24) held a launch event Tuesday night at New York City's Algonquin Hotel, the literary landmark where the book is set. The novel reimagines Dorothy Parker as an apparition who's been wandering the hotel for 40 years, hoping to convince a drinking buddy to join her in limbo rather than disappear into the eternal white light. Meister also runs a popular Dorothy Parker Facebook page. Pictured: Meister (r.) with Kevin Fitzpatrick, president of the Dorothy Parker Society and author of The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide.
Shelf Awareness

NY Cookbook Store Reopens in New Improved Space

Shelf Awareness

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks reopened yesterday in its new location at 28 E. Second St. in Manhattan's East Village, DNAinfo reported. The store had to find another space last fall after its West Village landlord refused to renew its lease.

Bonnie Slotnick in her new space (photo: vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com)

"It was terribly, terribly stressful and I empathize with anybody who's going through same thing," said Slotnick, who was offered a new location in Garth and Margo Johnston's building after they heard about her dilemma. "It's really an amazing dream that actually happened. It's something that I wish every small businessperson in the city who's being driven by their landlord could have happen."

The new space is "much more conducive to being a bookstore," she added. "The other store was so long and narrow that it was very hard for people to get in there. Sometimes a group of six or seven people would come in and they could not all sit down and they couldn't get past each other."

Although there is still work being done at the store, DNAinfo wrote that Slotnick reopened this week because she couldn't wait to see her former customers again and to meet new ones from the neighborhood. "I couldn't stand just sort of doing this in a vacuum. I was afraid almost that I would lose sight of what I was doing," she said. "I want people to see this and come in."

Earlier this week, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York got a sneak peek inside the new space, where Slotnick "has spent the winter unpacking, painting shelves glossy white and organizing what has turned out to be a dream bookshop, much larger than the last, complete with a working fireplace ('I'll probably never light it--fire and smoke don't go well with books') and a backyard perfect for book parties."

Pound Cake

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I don't know about you but plums are falling two a penny at the bottom of my garden at the moment. It's the perfect time of year to bake stonefruit desserts, like this easy Pound Cake from Dish Food Editor Claire Aldous. It'll be figs and feijoas next - the season of abundance has started! Online Editor,

RECIPE

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Open Road Bringing James Beard Cookbooks to E-book

Beginning in March 2015, Open Road Media will be publishing eleven James Beard cookbooks for the first time in digital. 

The titles include The James Beard Cookbook, Beard on Birds, Delights and Prejudices, and Hors D'Oeuvres and Canapes; and food narratives such as The Armchair James Beard and Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles.

The week's gastronomy news with denizen

New in Parnell Mark Wallbank's enticing new Asian fusion eatery opens its doors to Denizens

Pop-up Eatery An inspired collision of great food and wine pops up for the volvo ocean race

New in The City Ooh la la! a fresh new eatery is catering to our modern french tendencies

Double Chocolate Pudding with Caramelized Cocoa Nibs

Double Chocolate Pudding with Caramelized Cocoa Nibs David, 2015-02-24 13:11 I’ve been a bit out of sorts recently, getting a little buried under things that are less-fun than cooking and baking. Fortunately, I gotta eat. And I also have to have chocolate, frequently. (As in, daily.) Otherwise I turn into some kind of crazed person. It’s a little strange, but I guess there are odder things to be addicted to. But if I don’t have a tablet of chocolate in my kitchen (or living room, or bed room, or…), I go a little mental and find myself wandering around wherever I am, searching for a bar to break the end off of and nibble on. Which is why unsweetened chocolate is so vexing. While it’s great for baking, and giving things like chocolate pudding an especially intense bitter chocolate flavor, it’s hard to keep my hands off the little chunks when I can chopping it up for a recipe. Continue Reading Double Chocolate Pudding with Caramelized Cocoa Nibs...

Gourmet Traveller iTALIAN issue

The Italian issue is back, packed with pasta and the fruits of the season and we have a preview of the recipes for you. Buon appetito. Plus, fig recipes; our review of Kylie Kwong's new Billy Kwong restaurant; our travel guide to Turin, Italy; Guy Grossi's vitello tonnato recipe; and your chance to win two tickets to Little Sydney or lunch for six at Grossi Florentino. Happy eating, Anthea Loucas and the team at Gourmet Traveller

Bloody Mary prawn rolls Toasted corn and spelt with miso dressing Iceberg lettuce salad with bacon, pine nuts and buttermilk dressing Coconut, chocolate and raspberry ice-cream bombe Sticky soy-glazed pork with pickled cucumber Watermelon salad with fried shallots

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