Posts in Discover ckbk
New ‘à la carte’ offering brings iconic authors to ckbk, including Ottolenghi, Nigella, and Jamie

We're thrilled to announce the launch of a major new feature on ckbk, bringing landmark cookbooks from culinary superstars to the platform. Featured authors include Yotam Ottolenghi, Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson and Thomas Keller. Each of the bestselling titles in ckbk’s à la carte selection can now be added to your ckbk membership for a one-off payment of the e-book price.

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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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5 dishes fit for royalty

People are pulling out the stops to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, marking her 70-year reign. Celebrating royal milestones with food is a great British tradition and to help you celebrate the Big Jubilee Lunch on June 5, we’ve rounded up five dishes with a connection to the British monarchy.

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Build your skills with cookbooks from Le Cordon Bleu

There’s no bigger name in culinary education than Le Cordon Bleu, and you can now build your skills with the Le Cordon Bleu Home Collection on ckbk, a series of titles organized by theme and including foolproof recipes and step-by-step guidance for key methods. Also, be sure to check out A Culinary Journey, in which Le Cordon Bleu-trained chefs show of their skills with exceptional dishes from around the world.

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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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The ckbk guide to Christmas

The ckbk Guide to Christmas pulls together our authors’ festive words of wisdom on everything from party planning to homemade gifts – and great recipes, of course. Let the festivities begin!

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Gut instinct: ckbk’s fermentation collection

Inspired by Asa Simonsson’s new-to-ckbk title Fermentation, we take a (good) bacteria-fueled journey through the ckbk collection to discover more about the ancient art and science of this method of preserving and enhancing food.

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Just like grandma used to make

In Nonna’s Kitchen by Carol Field celebrates and preserves the traditional regional cooking of Italy, as recounted by dozens of Italian grandmothers. To celebrate the recent addition of this critically-acclaimed title to ckbk, we explore grandmother-inspired recipes from across our cookbook collection.

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The right sauce for the right dish

Want to know your sauce suprême from your sauce albufera? Bamboozled by butter sauces? Fascinated by foams? Take a guided tour through the sauce recipes on ckbk. From classic white sauces to emulsions, we’ve got you (and your steak) covered.

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Cookbooks with Michelin-star status

Gaining one, two, or three Michelin stars is an achievement that chefs like to shout about. ckbk is home to numerous cookbooks from chefs in the UK who have won stars themselves or played lead roles in Michelin-starred kitchens. Here is our field guide to those stellar cookbooks.

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The Staff of Life: ckbk’s bread-baking collection

With the recent addition of titles such as Bien Cuit and Josey Baker Bread, ckbk’s bread-baking collection now numbers a neat baker’s dozen. The collection covers everything from books for budding bakers, to works aimed at baking pros, plus beautifully photographed recipe collections inspired by bakeries around the world.

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