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Monday, July 7, 2014

Cooking the Books with PW

The Big Cookbooks of Fall 2014
Our top 10 picks for fall cookbooks, plus a rundown of the season's biggest titles from publishers large and small. more

Cooking for Literacy—and Health
This summer, Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia has debuted a state-of-the-art Culinary Literacy Center, designed to combat low literacy rates while helping residents become confident cooks. more

Cookbook News Bites: July 7, 2014
This week, chef/author John Currence takes home a SIBA award for 'Pickles, Pigs & Whiskey,' and the authors of 'Sweet Mandarin Cookbook' cook for the British Prime Minister and Chinese Premier. more

Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad Bowl (Bún bò)

Posted: 07 July 2014 by David Lebovitz

One thing I love about traveling is that I get to read. As much as we all love to be connected, it’s nice to be somewhere – like 5000 feet up in the air, where your biggest concern is who gets the armrest – where that isn’t usually a possibility. (Although I also spend a considerable amount of time up there wondering if whoever designed those airplane seats ever had to spend twelve hours in one.)

After plowing through a formidable stack of New Yorkers (my goodness, those writers are prolific!) that I’ve amassed over the last few months, during some recent travels, I attacked a few of the books that I had stacked up on my nightstand.

I had gotten a preview copy of Delancy: A man, a woman, a restaurant, a marriage, and had read the nearly finished book in galley form, to provide a quote. But it was a different – and more pleasurable experience – to curl up (as best I could, in a plane seat) with the actual book, and relive the story of how Molly Wizenberg, and her husband Brandon, opened a pizza restaurant in Seattle, and lived to tell the story. Which was not without lots of angst, and a bit of anger.

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Friday, July 4, 2014

Pork Sausage and Cannellini Bean Cassoulet

4, July, 2014

The cold weather is here, putting snow on the slopes and turning thoughts to winter cooking. Try this week's rich pork sausage cassoulet for a hearty weekend meal, or make the most of winter citrus with Claire's beautiful cake. We're sending our new winter issue to print at the moment (on sale July 21) so are looking forward to a relaxing weekend of good food!

RECIPE

Pork Sausage and Cannellini Bean Cassoulet

Hearty sausages and wholesome cannellini beans make this Cassoulet the perfect companion for a cold winter's night

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Citrus, Olive Oil and Almond Syrup Cake (GF)

Aromatic with citrus zest and with a rich, dense interior, this moist gluten free cake can be served plain or finished with a drizzle of icing – either way, it’s rather fabulous!

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Eat Your Books

Whether they are from cookbooks, magazines, or blogs, all the recipes we feature in these weekly round-ups have online links so you can add any of them to your Bookshelf. Even if you have a free membership! But the recipes shown here are just the beginning. The EYB Library has over 143,000 online recipes to choose from including over 21,000 from cookbooks and over 46,000 from magazines. Then there are thousands more from the 74 popular blogs & websites we have indexed. Adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to build your recipe collection, especially since they come from such trusted sources.

As you add recipes to your EYB Bookshelf, don't forget you can apply Bookmarks to help keep them organized. And once you've tried a recipe, you can add a Note to remind yourself how the dish turned out and share your experience with the EYB community. Happy cooking and baking everyone!

From magazines:

4 sweet & savory recipes featuring clotted cream from the June issue of indexed Delicious Magazine (UK)

4 shortcake recipes from the June issue of indexed Better Homes and Gardens Magazine

Tomato-Baked Prawns and Feta from the June issue of indexed Australian Gourmet Traveller

From UK books:

5 recipes from Scandilicious: Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking by Signe Johansen,
indexed by an EYB member

20 recipes from The Fast Diet Recipe Book: 150 Delicious, Calorie-Controlled Meals to Make Your Fasting Days Easy by Mimi Spencer & Sarah Schenker

From AUS/NZ books:

9 recipes from I Am Food: Eating Your Way to Health by Anthia Koullouros

The Great New Zealand Cookbooks makes cover of AirNZ flight magazine

Murray Thom

Wow ! The Great New Zealand Cookbook back cover is the same as the Air New Zealand front cover...a Big Kia Ora to that!

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Pantelleria

Posted: 02 July - 2014 - David Lebovitz

Well, what can I say? After everyone telling me so much about Pantelleria. I didn’t quite get it when I arrived. But when it was time to leave, it was hard to go.

On the day after I landed, by the time afternoon rolled around, I had curled myself up on a cushioned chair with a book I’d been looking forward to delving into. Then suddenly, I found myself waking up a few hours later, realizing that I had collapsed into a deep, profound sleep.

It was the combination of silence that’s nearly impossible to find nowadays, and soft sunshine with a lazy breeze, which were no match for my hyperactive nature. It was one of the soundest slumbers I’ve had in the last few years.

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