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Consuming Passions: Pork

Consuming Passions: Pork

Brought up on pig farms in Essex and Kent, Chris Bulow is the creator of Salute the Pig, a website devoted to “the countless joys of porcine delights”. His piece for our Consuming Passions series is naturally on the subject of all things pig-related.

Consuming passionsSusan LowJanuary 9, 2023Pork, Chris Bulow

Consuming Passions: Feta

Consuming Passions: Feta

“My number one desert island food would be feta cheese. It would go beautifully with any tropical fruit I might forage. Just thinking of its crumbly creaminess and saltiness coupled with a lusciously sweet mango makes the prospect of being marooned on a wild and uninhabited island quite appealing. As long as there is a crate of feta drifting behind me.”

Consuming passionsSusan LowJanuary 9, 2023Feta, Angela Zaher

Author profile: Fi Buchanan, author of Seasonal Salads

Seasonal Salads by Fi Buchanan is published by Kitchen Press on January 5th 2023. The book, including 52 salad recipes to see you through every week of the year, is available in full on ckbk. We spoke to Fi about the year round joys of the salad bowl…

Author ProfileSusan LowJanuary 5, 2023Seasonal Salads, Fi Buchanan, Kitchen Press

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NEW FEATURE: Add a carousel of your favorite ckbk recipes to any blog post or web page

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Behind The Cookbook: The Dessert Architect

Behind The Cookbook: The Dessert Architect

Robert Wemischner is a pastry chef and culinary educator who for the past 18 years has taught baking and pastry at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Robert’s long-standing interest in the flavor potential of ingredients culminated in The Dessert Architect, a text book designed to teach budding pastry chefs the fundamental building blocks and approaches which will allow them to freely express their creativity. We asked the author what led him to write the book…

Behind the CookbookSusan LowJanuary 4, 2023Robert Wemischner, The Dessert Architect

Consuming Passions: Pomegranates

Consuming Passions: Pomegranates

Dina Macki is a British-born cook from an Omani and Zanzibari family. Her ‘Dine with Dina’ Omani supper clubs have been a hit, and later this year will see the appearance of her debut cookbook which will be the first title on Omani cuisine to be published in English. On Instagram, where she has more than 24,000 followers, she is known as ‘The Pomegranate Queen’, so when it came to choosing the topic for her Consuming Passions piece, there was only one option…

Consuming passionsSusan LowJanuary 2, 2023Dina Macki, Pomegranates, Oman, Bahari

Behind the Cookbook: Goose Fat & Garlic

Behind the Cookbook: Goose Fat & Garlic

Jeanne Strang’s book, Goose Fat and Garlic, is devoted to the regional and highly seasonal dishes of rural SouthWest France. Patricia Wells describes it as “a book with a ring of authenticity; a must for all cooks with a sense of curiosity and a dose of ambition.” The book has legions of devoted fans, among them Alison Stattersfield, who has recorded her progress in cooking her way every recipe in the book on her blog My Year of French Cookery. Below she explains why this book, and the cuisine of the region as a whole, means so much to her.

Behind the CookbookSusan LowDecember 26, 2022Jeanne Strang, Alison Stattersfield, Goose Fat & Garlic, Peter Graham, Mourjou

ckbk’s Best of 2022

ckbk’s Best of 2022

Another year at ckbk has just flown by and it’s time to crunch the numbers to see what books and recipes have been the most popular this year.

Discover ckbkckbkDecember 22, 2022Annual Roundup, 2022

Consuming Passions: Sardines

Consuming Passions: Sardines

Di Murrell celebrates the humblest of fish and its dual appeal “My love affair with fresh sardines began quite late on when we lived in France and, strangely enough, my fondness for the tinned sort was rekindled there too. Strange, because in both cases we were in regions that had little to do with the sea.”

Consuming passionsSusan LowDecember 19, 2022Di Murrell, Sardines, Tinned food, The Best I(n) Can

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From TikTok to ckbk 🌈🦄

From TikTok to ckbk 🌈🦄

To mark the December 6th publication of Savory vs. Sweet, the debut cookbook from Miami-based influencers Shalean and Stephanie Ghitis, we spoke to one of the authors to find out how the cookbook came to be published.

Behind the CookbookRamona AndrewsDecember 6, 2022Savory Vs Sweet, Stephanie Ghitis, Shalean Ghitis, TikTok, Instagram

Consuming Passions: Stout

Consuming Passions: Stout

In the latest addition to our consuming passions series, Laura Hadland (drinks writer and author of 50 Years of CAMRA: Celebrating 50 years of the Campaign for Real Ale) celebrates the dark mysteries of stout, the style of beer made famous by Guinness, whose rich and smooth flavour makes it a beverage with a vast range of culinary possibilities. Laura also offer recommendations for some of her personal favorite craft stouts and suggestions for their use.

Consuming passionsSusan LowNovember 28, 2022Beer, Stout, Guinness, Laura Hadland