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July, 2014 |   Online Recipes   |   Indexed Books   |   Blog   |   Website   | July is an exciting month, as we have just indexed 5,000 cookbooks! Thank you to all of our members who have taken the time to index books to help us reach this milestone. We're continuing to expand our indexed magazines as well, with two new titles added this month. We also have a great feature by author Diana Henry, another cookbook store profile, your favorite lists, and of course giveaways and author articles. The team at EatYourBooks

5,000th book indexed!

If you needed an excuse to buy another cookbook, here is one: this month we indexed cookbook number 5,000 on the site. So which book is lucky number 5,000? It's Monday Morning Cooking Club: The Feast Goes On, an Australian book that Yotam Ottolenghi calls "a remarkable excursion into the realm of comfort food." EYB indexers have been working diligently to reach this milestone, so thanks goes to them for their hard work. They have received assistance from EYB members who have indexed their favorite cookbooks; they deserve a thank you as well. Remember, if you have a book that you can't wait to see indexed, you can request that EYB do the indexing or that you do it yourself.

Me and my cookbooks - Diana Henry

This month's installment highlights author and cookbook collector Diana Henry, whose collection tops 4,000 volumes. Diana is no stranger to EYB Members; her cookbooks can be found on hundreds of member Bookshelves. (The EYB Member Forum also features a topic on cooking with Diana Henry recipes.) Diana's latest book, A Change of Appetite, was published earlier this year in the U.K. and is now available in the U.S. The article features excerpts from a touching post from Diana's website about her love of food writing and cookbooks. More

THE NEW DOM PERIGNON PRIVATE DINING ROOM

23 July 2014

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GASTRONOMY FINALLY AUCKLAND IS BESTOWED WITH AN IMPRESSIVE MODERN INDIAN RESTAURANT... READ MORE

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...meat tastes better closer to the bone

Everyone knows meat tastes better closer to the bone, especially when it's prepared in any of the 30 ways we've collected in our rib recipe slideshow just for you. Plus, our travel guide to Phuket; stylists' favourites for the kitchen and table; Australia's best kitchen and tableware shops; Australian sour beers; and your chance to win two double passes for The Last Confession in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Happy eating, Anthea Loucas and the team at Gourmet Traveller

Cookbook News from PW

This Fall, a Focus on Food for National Geographic
Through books for children and adults, print and online features, a miniseries, and an exhibition, National Geographic is exploring how the world eats and what the future of our food system may look like. more

June Cookbook Bestsellers
For the second month running, Guy Fieri's 'Guy on Fire' tops PW's cookbook bestseller list. Click through to see the full top 10 list, including a trio of paleo cookbooks. The list

Behind the Cookbook Bestsellers: June 2014
One of the Pioneer Woman’s perennially popular cookbooks and a sweet taste of the South are just two of top-selling titles on PW's cookbook bestsellers list for June. more

Cookbook Deals for July 2014
This month, new deals for a star of 'MasterChef Australia,' the minds behind NYC hotspots Eleven Madison Park and The NoMad, and the host of 'Korean Food Made Simple.' more

Update: A l’Etoile d’Or...

Posted: 21 July 2014 

If you’d ever stepped into A l’Etoile d’Or, the candy and chocolate shop located just down the hill from the Moulin Rouge windmill, near Montmartre, it wouldn’t have taken you long to know you had entered somewhere special.

It might have taken a few minutes, especially if Madame Acabo was occupied with other customers. But as soon as her attention was turned on you, you were immediately taken under her wing, and guided around the shop, exploring all the various soft and hard candied in the vintage jars, flavored with everything from bergamot to caramel. You might have learned what was hiding inside the vibrant-colored purple jellies. (It was liquid cassis, and tasted like purple manna from heaven.)

With a snip of her scissors, Madame Acabo might have given you a taste from one of the ropes of marshmallows, scented with Madagascar vanilla bean or fragrant bergamot peel. There were caramel-filled caramels, salted butter caramels by Henri Le Roux, mango-passion fruit caramels from Jacques Genin, crisp caramelized almonds from Montargis, and caramel-filled squares of chocolate, with a wisp of a brown sugar cookie tucked inside.

Speaking of chocolate, if you liked chocolate, this was the shop for you. Lining the shelves were bars from France’s best bean-to-bar chocolate makers, from Bonnat to Bernachon, and she was the only person outside of the original Bernachon shop in Lyon that was given the privilege of carrying their chocolate bars. (She told me she got down on her hands and knees and begged them to let her carry them. Happily for us – it worked!)

With a table heaped with tablets of their chocolate bars, with flavors ranging from Moka (made by grinding coffee beans together with cacao beans), Jour et nuit (half milk chocolate, half dark chocolate), and ivory-colored white chocolate bars, it was rare if I left there without at least two or three bars from one of the stacks, which would always include Kalouga, my gold-standard for caramel-filled chocolate bars, which oozed gooey salted butter caramel when you snapped off the end.

Denise Acabo spent decades sourcing the best chocolates and candies in France, many of which were rare and hard-to-find, which she displayed in polished wooden showcases. Her distinctive handwriting made everything more charming. It didn’t matter, who you were, or where you were from; the minute she caught your attention, you became part of her family.

It wasn’t unusual to find a small crowd in her little shop, with everyone from clusters of tourists, some just wandering in, curious about the shop with all the chocolates and confections in the windows, to famous actors and notable figures who lived in the neighborhood, grabbing a box of chocolate to take to a dinner party. Although it’s rare that chocolatiers heap praise on other people selling chocolates in Paris, the face of every chocolatier would bloom into a wide smile when her name was mentioned.

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Warm Chocolate and Streusel Brioche

18, July

Our winter issue goes on sale next week, and it's a time of year that always seems to coincide with lots of comfort eating, winter walks and lazy weekend mornings. We're sure the recipes below will encourage you to do the same.  Have a lovely weekend,

RECIPE

Warm Chocolate and Streusel Brioche Want to cook something special this weekend? Look no further. Serve the brioche warm from the oven and have everyone swooning! View Recipe Croque Madame - An Easy Twist To celebrate Bastille Day, Sarah Tuck presents her delicious interpretation of the French lunchtime classic, Croque Madame. View Recipe