Newsletter: 💝Spreading the love this Valentine’s + galloping towards the Lunar New Year 🐎
Newsletter: 💝Spreading the love this Valentine’s + galloping towards the Lunar New Year 🐎

Love makes the world go around, it gives us happiness and hope, and as Bad Bunny showed us all at the weekend, that is in no way restricted to romantic love. February 14 is the annual day of love. We need it all year round, but we also need all the love we can get. So let’s seize the day and celebrate our loved ones—our lovers and our Galentines, or anyone else you feel could do with a cuddle. Food is a love language we all understand, and making food for your beloveds is a special thing to do, a special thing to share.

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ckbk newsletterckbkPancakes, pancake day, Valentine, Lunar New Year
Consuming Passions: Mustard Oil
Consuming Passions: Mustard Oil

Mustard oil is to Bangladeshi food what olive oil is to Italian food. As a person of Bangladeshi origin it is almost unthinkable not to include mustard oil in my cooking repertoire and belongs to the far end of the spectrum of cooking oils—intense and bold in flavour, it has a high smoking point and also features heavily in Indian regional cooking such as Punjabi, South India and West Bengal.

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Consuming passionsSusan LowDina Begum, Mustard, Mustard Oil, India, Bangladesh, Spices
Author Profile: David Thompson, author of Classic Thai Cuisine
Author Profile: David Thompson, author of Classic Thai Cuisine

Australian chef David Thompson’s critically acclaimed cookbooks on Thai cuisine, together with his hugely successful high-end Thai restaurants, have been instrumental bringing the range and diversity of Thai cuisine to an international audience. This week we are delighted to add David’s first cookbook, Classic Thai Cuisine, to ckbk’s collection. In this latest author profile, fellow Australian chef and long time friend Roberta Muir talks to David about his career, his influences, and the in depth research which has gone into his cookbooks.

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Author ProfileSusan LowDavid Thompson, Roberta Muir, Classic Thai Cuisine, Thailand
Newsletter: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Have a brilliant Burns Night banquet + ways to get cooking with your kids 🏫
Newsletter: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Have a brilliant Burns Night banquet + ways to get cooking with your kids 🏫

January 25 is Burns Night, the annual celebration of the life and poetry of Scotland’s beloved son, Robert Burns. It is a chance to revel in all things Scottish, and usually marked by a lavish and hearty supper. If you need a bit of inspiration for fitting dishes to grace your Burns Night table, we’ve got all the recipes you need in our collection of Burns Night Recipes.

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ckbk newsletterckbkRhubarb, Chocolate, Chocolate cake
Newsletter: 👩‍🍳 Cook like a pro + make the most of Seville orange season 🍊
Newsletter: 👩‍🍳 Cook like a pro + make the most of Seville orange season 🍊

It is a joy to us at ckbk that our resource—now over 1,000 cookbooks—is helping both home cooks to discover great recipes to enjoy, and professional chefs and culinary students in their ongoing development and careers. Looking at our most popular books of 2025, we found several of our extensive collection of professional books in your top 20. Two of these are by chef, culinary consultant, and expert in the field of culinary education, bestselling author Wayne Gisslen. We are delighted to kick off 2026 with the new 10th edition of Wayne’s classic Professional Cooking.

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ckbk newsletterckbkProfessional Cooking, Spicy, Seville oranges
Newsletter: 🍜 Fresh flavors from an East Asian trio 🍣
Newsletter: 🍜 Fresh flavors from an East Asian trio 🍣

After the season of plentiful traditional food, and the inevitable downtime over the holidays, what could be better than fresh new flavors to brighten wintery days and enliven your palate. For invigorating tastes, looks to East Asia, with its culinary culture of intense bright flavors and vibrant colors. We have three books newly added to ckbk, bursting with East Asian goodness.

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ckbk newsletterckbkAsia, Japan, Korea, Hiroko Shimbo, vegan, Lemongrass
Newsletter: 🥳 Your New Year’s party planner (plus an option if you need a late gift) 🎁
Newsletter: 🥳 Your New Year’s party planner (plus an option if you need a late gift) 🎁

To all of you, a gigantic thank you for being with us along the way in 2025, we appreciate every one of you, your wonderful comments, the recipes you try and share with us, your place in our food-loving community. Thank you.

As we finish up the mince pies, and lunch on turkey sandwiches, we turn our thoughts to New Year’s Eve, what to make for the party of the year, and what to raise a glass of.

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ckbk newsletterckbkNew Year, Cocktails, Ginger, Gingerbread, Leftovers, Christmas
Newsletter: All the Christmas recipes and food lover gifts you could possibly need 🎁🎄
Newsletter: All the Christmas recipes and food lover gifts you could possibly need 🎁🎄

Christmas pudding is that once a year treat, rich in sweet fruits, seasoned with spice and more than its fair share of brandy, and everyone looks forward to it. Unless, of course, you don’t. It you are one of the naysayers, never fear, we’ve got a recipe for that. Your Christmas table will nonetheless be graced with a pudding to thrill them all, fitting of the annual feast.

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ckbk newsletterckbkChristmas, Clementines, Snacks
Newsletter: 🕎 A Happy Hanukkah, with help from Evelyn and Judi Rose + alternatives to turkey for Christmas 🦃
Newsletter: 🕎 A Happy Hanukkah, with help from Evelyn and Judi Rose + alternatives to turkey for Christmas 🦃

Jewish food is as rich and varied as the many communities worldwide who have developed their own traditions, and evolve them today. As we publish Judi Rose’s feature on Hanukkah, we are delighted also to highlight the addition of her latest book to ckbk. In To Life!: Healthy Jewish Food, written together with her cousin Dr Jackie Rose, Judi combines aspects of a nutritious Mediterranean diet with Jewish culinary traditions, taking inspiration from her mother's recipes.

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ckbk newsletterckbkHanukkah, Gifts, Brussels sprouts, To Life
Newsletter: 🎄Prepare for Christmas with the expert guidance of Elizabeth David + Scotland country cooking 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Newsletter: 🎄Prepare for Christmas with the expert guidance of Elizabeth David + Scotland country cooking 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The countdown to holiday season has begun! And we have a glorious early Christmas present for you—Essential Elizabeth David (Christmas). Heralding the launch of our new book series of classic Elizabeth David recipes, published by us at ckbk, we bring you a festive feast selected by the culinary legend’s nephew, kitchen designer Johnny Grey.

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ckbk newsletterckbkChristmas, Cinnamon, Winter
Get ready for Christmas with these essential Elizabeth David recipes
Get ready for Christmas with these essential Elizabeth David recipes

Elizabeth David is regarded as the most influential British food writer of recent times. She transformed the culinary landscape of post-war Britain with an approach to cooking that drew inspiration from her Mediterranean travels—her many books have inspired generations of chefs and food writers. We mark the festive season with this new collection of Elizabeth David’s Christmas recipes, selected exclusively for ckbk by her nephew, kitchen designer Johnny Grey.

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Holiday Menu, Family FavoritesSusan LowElizabeth David, Christmas
Newsletter: Stock up on ckbk gift subscriptions with our biggest ever Black Friday offer 🎁
Newsletter: Stock up on ckbk gift subscriptions with our biggest ever Black Friday offer 🎁

It’s coming up to that time of year again, but what to get for the food lover in your life? ckbk has the answer! For a very limited period, we are offering a huge 50% off ckbk gift subscriptions. Do you have several food-loving friends? It’s easy to buy a bundle of ckbk gift subscriptions at this special rate — just select the number you want during checkout.  And don’t worry—the clock on their subscription won’t start ticking until they claim it…

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ckbk newsletterckbkWild mushrooms, Foraging, Thanksgiving, Leftovers
Authentic Brazilian Cuisine: From Brigadeiro to Cocada – The Sweet Side of Brazil
Authentic Brazilian Cuisine: From Brigadeiro to Cocada – The Sweet Side of Brazil

Following up her earlier ckbk feature on Brazil’s savory traditions, chef and cookbook enthusiast Luciana Corrêa now looks at the sweet dishes—making use of a wide range of tropical ingedients— which are every bit as central to Brazil’s cuisine.

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Regional cookingSusan LowLuciana Correa, Morena Leite, Christopher Idone, MyRioDeJaneiro, TheBrazilianKitchen, Leticia Moreinos Schwarz, Brazil, Brazil Rhythms and Recipes, Authentic Brazilian Home Cooking, The Brazilian Kitchen, The Food and Cooking of Brazil, My Rio de Janeiro, Cake, Desserts