Teresa Giudice, Real Housewives of New Jersey Table-Flipping Star, Gets Cookbook Deal
Not entirely new (since she tweeted about it last week), but Publishers Weekly reports that Teresa Giudice, the table-flipping star of the Real Housewives of New Jersey, sold her cookbook Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy it - Live La Bella Vita and Look Great Too! to Hyperion (ooh, preorder on Amazon). Slated for [...]
The Best Cookbooks of the Decade [goodbye aughties]
While 2009 was full of spectacular cookbooks, the rest of the decade hasn't been too shabby either. With How to Cook Everything (published in 1998) and French Laundry (1999) completely changing the game for home and restaurant cookbooks alike, the next few years were already set up for greatness. Through the hundreds and hundreds of [...]
Michael Symon's Cook to Live Cookbook Cover: An Unfortunate Compromise
Live to Cook with dust jacket, and without. Photo collage: Eat Me Daily.
"They didn't want recipes with things like pig's head and I didn't want a cookbook with my picture on the cover," Michael Symon told YumSugar about his book Live to Cook (Amazon). "In the end we compromised. My picture is on the cover [...]
The Best Cookbooks of 2009 Roundup Spectacular
2009 has really been the year of the home cook. While last year's crop of cookbooks was dominated by technical, aspirational, fantastical documents like Alinea, A Day at El Bulli, and Under Pressure, the front runners this year are all about doability — take Ad Hoc home, take Momofuku home, make your own bacon, can [...]
Cookin' with Coolio: By the Numbers
Photograph: Paula Forbes / Eat Me Daily
As you may recall, rap superstar Coolio has been producing YouTube cooking videos for about a year now, and, like any good online cooking phenomenon, he got a book deal out of it. Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price (Amazon) is a collection of [...]
Amazon's Search for the Best Food Book Cover of 2009
Amazon is holding their annual Best Book Covers of 2009 (you need an Amazon account to vote). In the "Cooking, Food, and Wine" category:
Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller, designed by Leve
Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan, designed by Marysarah Quinn
Fat of the Land by Langdon Cook, designed by Mayumi Thompson
Ratio by Michael [...]
Sweet Treats: A Typographical Cookbook
Left: Toothsome Typeface Tart. Right: Knockout Hot Chocolate. View larger.
This looks nice: the Sweet Treats, a typographical cookbook by Woodward Design.
Each is hand-numbered from a limited edition of 500. You can see a full preview on Issuu and can buy it at Etsy for $20.
Cookbook Review: I Heart Macarons by Hisako Ogita: Sweet, Fluffy, and Imperfect
Photograph: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily
Hello! This book review comes with a contest! Make it all the way to the end for details on how to win your own copy of I Heart Macarons.
I've never made macarons before. I'm really way too impatient and haphazard by nature to be much of a baker, I've [...]
