Bad Girl Bakery by Jeni Iannetta will be published on November 4 – and we have a sneak preview, including a Q&A with the author, and a recipe for some very special muffins.
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With Halloween around the corner, it’s time to test your knowledge of the holiday’s best known fruit (yes, squash and pumpkins are technically fruit!)
There’s a ckbk apron and a six-month ckbk Gift Subscription up for grabs for two lucky winners. Enter by the end of October 2021 for your chance to win.
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For more than 30 years, David Moore’s Michelin-starred restaurant Pied à Terre has served some of the best food in London. Pied à Terre: Celebrating 30 years tells the story of the restaurant through the decades and includes recipes for many of its best-loved dishes. To mark the book’s arrival on ckbk, we spoke to restaurateur David Moore, who looks back on the restaurant’s history and the making of the book.
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In 1971, half a century ago, two young mothers wrote a book that captured the spirit of the time, and still has strong resonance to this day. Poor Cook focuses on good simple cooking from scratch. Its “do what you can with what’s available” ethos is very much in keeping with today’s imperative to reduce food waste. We spoke to the two co-authors who told us how they came to write the book….
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As we give a warm welcome to two titles that celebrate the joys of supreme kitchen gadgetry – cookbooks on the air fryer and the Instant Pot, we take the opportunity to consider some of the most well-loved kitchen gadgets and find out what our chefs and food writers have to say about them.
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Former chef and restaurateur Chris Lawrence ponders how books by Auguste Escoffier and Harold McGee, written a century apart, have had a profound effect on the way that chefs, recipe writers, and home cooks think about food and how they cook. He argues for more care to be taken in recipe creation – and tells why he welcomes the digital recipe revolution
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Want to know your sauce suprême from your sauce albufera? Bamboozled by butter sauces? Fascinated by foams? Take a guided tour through the sauce recipes on ckbk. From classic white sauces to emulsions, we’ve got you (and your steak) covered.
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Gaining one, two, or three Michelin stars is an achievement that chefs like to shout about. ckbk is home to numerous cookbooks from chefs in the UK who have won stars themselves or played lead roles in Michelin-starred kitchens. Here is our field guide to those stellar cookbooks.
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In The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook, Dr Annie Gray’s meticulous historical research gives fascinating insight into the cooking of the early 20th century and delivers recipes that hold plenty of appeal for contemporary cooks.
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Tessa Kiros talks to ckbk about her culinary influences and the inspiration behind her cookbooks, from her Finnish-Greek Cypriot background, to the Famous Five and Elizabeth David.
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Elizabeth Schneider’s Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, is as relevant today as it was when it was first published. In a piece written exclusively for ckbk, the author reflects on how much – and how little – the food world has changed since the book’s publication.
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Maury Rubin is the creator of City Bakery in Manhattan, and author of Book of Tarts, published just over 25 years ago. We asked Rubin to cast his mind back to the early days of City Bakery, and tell us about how his award-winning book came into being.
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Tributes poured in from around the world following the news of the death of Nach Waxman on August 4, aged 84. The owner of the renowned New York City cookbook store Kitchen Arts & Letters was known for his generosity and enthusiasm. Over the course of nearly 40 years, his store became the focus for a worldwide community of chefs, writers and home cooks with a passion for cookbooks.
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Fred Plotkin’s Recipes From Paradise: Life and Food on the Italian Riviera is a love letter to Liguria, which he says “may be as close to paradise as one can find on this earth”. Plotkin tells ckbk why Liguria is the part of Italy that will always hold the most fascination for him.
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Every professional kitchen will have a food thermometer on hand to accurately measure the internal temperature of meat, fish, cakes, bread, preserves and more. Now you can win one for your home kitchen, thanks to our friends at Thermapen.
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You can now keep track of what you have cooked from the ckbk’s collection of trusted cookbook recipes, and share your experiences with other members of the ckbk community.
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Almost 50 years ago, Roy Andries de Groot, an aristocratic, eccentric, and profoundly blind British American food writer took a trip to France that would, indirectly, change the course of American cooking. The book that resulted captures a moment in culinary time and place like perhaps no other, and its influence has been profound.
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Candida Crewe, daughter of food critic Quentin Crewe, reflects on the life of her father and how he came to pen what many chefs regard as one of the best books on French cuisine ever written, Great Chefs of France.
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In the monumental tome, The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking (2006), food writer Marlena turns historian and storyteller to explore “a cuisine that is as diverse as it is delicious.” We spoke to Marlena about Jewish traditions that matter most to her personally and how she has had to start from scratch again in her understanding of flavor.
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We Are La Cocina showcases the exceptional talent of the groundbreaking San Francisco food business incubator, bringing together stories from the chefs who share a kaleidoscope of recipes with their roots in Mexico, Cambodia, Iraq, and beyond. Read what La Cocina’s founders and supporters have to say about the organization, and the book.
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