Posts in Regional cooking
The cooking of India

The 17 books on ckbk’s Indian bookshelf explore the breadth and depth of Indian cuisines, from countrywide compendiums to books that investigate a single cooking style. Come along on a taste tour through our collection…

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The Barbuto Cookbook: Defining Cal-Ital Cooking

The Barbuto Cookbook, written by Jonathan Waxman, the renowned chef-owner of Barbuto restaurant in Manhattan’s West Village, is dedicated to California-Italian cooking. The book is filled with Italian-accented dishes that exude the soul of Italy, and it also gives readers brilliant insight into contemporary Italian-American cooking.

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Delicious ways to celebrate Caribbean-American Heritage Month

June is Caribbean-American Heritage Month, and 2022 marks its 15th anniversary. There’s no better time than this month to get familiar with dishes you may not have yet tried from the Caribbean islands.

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Cook the Caribbean

The food of the West Indies and the Caribbean fuses ingredients and influences from around the globe and across time periods. The seven cookbooks in our collection will take your palate on a cook’s tour all around the region.

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ckbk’s Australian collection: The evolution of a cuisine

To celebrate the arrival of The Bathers Pavillion cookbook on our virtual bookshelves, we’ve taken the opportunity to explore more Antipodean titles in ckbk’s collection and to highlight some of the region’s key chefs, recipes, restaurants, flavors, influences, and cooking trends.

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ckbk’s Scottish collection: a taste of heritage

We have six books in our Scottish collection (with more on the way), and they are written by some of the finest food writers and culinary historians in the English language, showcase the depth, breadth, and deep-down deliciousness of the country’s food heritage, from the past to the modern day.

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Behind the Cookbook: Ramin Ganeshram on Storytelling Through Food

Food is a gateway to human emotion, believes Ramin Ganeshram, the New York City-born journalist, historian, and author. As a child, Ganeshram learned to cook “by osmosis” as her Trinidad-born father wove stories as he chopped, stirred and kneaded. As well as learning to cook, she learned the importance of food as a medium for telling ourselves and others about who we are, and where we come from.

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The food of Southeast Asia

ckbk co-founder Nadia Arumugam launches the first in our two-part series on the cuisines of Southeast Asia. Malaysia-born Nadia, who has lived in three countries and traveled widely in many more, couldn’t be a better guide to the region. She evokes the fragrant memories of her mother’s cooking and recalls the aromas, sounds and signature dishes of Malaysia’s capital, before taking us off to Singapore and Indonesia, then to South Africa’s Cape Malay cuisine.

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Behind the Cookbook: My Rendang Isn't Crispy

When Zaleha was selected as a contestant on MasterChef UK in 2018 she was prepared for cooking that famously “doesn’t get any tougher than this,” but she wasn’t prepared for what came next. In her guest blog, Zaleha, author of My Rendang Isn’t Crispy and Other Favourite Malaysian Dishes, available now on ckbk, talks about #RendangGate and the story behind her book’s intriguing title.

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A route through ckbk’s French cookbook collection

Loving French food is easy. Finding exactly what kind of French food to cook, learn about and discover is a bit more complicated. This route through France’s regions, chefs and cooking styles will help you find the best of French cuisine

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