Cookbook Review: My New Orleans by John Besh: Beyond the Bayou
Photograph: Eat Me Daily
New Orleans has been drawn so many times — using so many of the same stories, the same hooks, the same oddball characters and domestic-exotica veneer — that it's hard to have patience for new attempts. "Read A Confederacy of Dunces and Interview With the Vampire," a Louisianan told me once, "and [...]
IACP Adds Three New Categories To Cookbook Awards
The call for entries is underway for the 2010 IACP cookbook awards (omfg have you submitted yet?), and the field has changed just a little with the addition of three new categories. Recognizing the expanding market for kiddie-chefs and family dinner compilations, they've added a Children, Youth, and Family category; Culinary History opens the doors [...]
Fabio Viviani's Cafe Firenze Cookbook by the Numbers
Top Chef Season 5 contestant, Fabio Viviani, and his partner Jacopo Falleni have self-published a cookbook of recipes from their Moorpark, California restaurant. The Cafe Firenze Cookbook: Food and Drink Recipes from the Tuscan Sons (buy at Amazon), in the works long before Top Chef fame came calling, is intentionally funny; according to Viviani, people [...]
Sheila Lukins, Cookbook Author, Dead at 66
Cookbook author Sheila Lukins died yesterday at the age of 66 from brain cancer at her home in Manhattan. She was a New York food institution and an arbiter of food trends in the 80s and early 90s, and she deserved a much better obituary than the one she received from Julia Moskin at the [...]
The Eat Me Daily Fall 2009 Cookbook Preview
Autumn brings more than just falling leaves and the return of legitimate root vegetables: it's also when publishing houses drop their most ambitious cookbook offerings, hoping to tap into the spirit of cooking (and book-buying) that pervades the pre-holiday season.
And is this ever a good year for cookbooks: the next three months will see enough [...]
The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons Learned the Hard Way, the Anti-Cookbook
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, visual artist Aleksandra Mir has produced a book that is nearly the total opposite of a traditional cookbook. The How Not to Cookbook: Lessons Learned the Hard Way is a compilation of kitchen catastrophes submitted by 1,000 people from all over the world.
The CFDA's Absurd American Fashion Cookbook
Back in February, we noted that the normally food-averse fashion world would be putting together a cookbook. And now you can own it!
The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) have put together American Fashion Cookbook: 100 Designers' Best Recipes (buy at Amazon), perhaps the first pro-food document to be described by the Balenciaga [...]
Julia Child's Cookbooks, Bestsellers Again
Julia & Julia may have gotten trounced by G.I. Joe almost three to one at the box office, but one side effect of the film and its media frenzy is a massive renewed interest in cookbooks by Julia Child. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1 (buy at Amazon) is currently Amazon's overall [...]
