Are you a mere chocaholic or a borderline chocolatier? How deep does your chocolate knowledge go? Take our quiz, created in partnership with artisanal chocolate maker Guittard Chocolate Company, to find out how much you really know.
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Lunar New Year, celebrated in many countries in East Asia, begins on 11-12 February this year, marking the first new moon of the lunar calendar. 2021 will be the Year of the Ox. Family and feasting are vital to Lunar New Year, and many of the celebratory banquet foods have symbolic meaning. Learn more and plan your celebratory meal.
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Peter Hertzmann believes that learning to cook involves learning about methods, not simply following recipes. His new book 50 Ways to Cook a Carrot, uses the root vegetable to demonstrate a whole battery of kitchen skills, from julienning and braising, to transforming carrots into meringues, foams, and powder. Peter explains the reasons for writing the book, who it’s for – and why carrots…
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Food writer, author, and stylist Jennifer Joyce grew up in the US and has lived in the UK for 27 years. Her love of good food is matched by her sense of wanderlust, her curious palate, and her brilliant recipe-writing skills (Jennifer’s recipes really work). In My Street Food Kitchen, Jennifer explores the street-food scene in Mexico & South America, the Mediterranean, East and Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, and the US, and delivers recipes that taste as good in your home kitchen as they do on your travels. We quizzed Jennifer about what ‘street food’ is, how she researched the book and tracked down the recipes – and asked about her favorite cookbook authors.
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Giuliano Hazan is a talented cook and teacher, and the author of Hazan Family Favorites, a collection of recipes from his grandparents and parents, his own recipes, and dishes his wife and daughters love to cook and eat. Giuliano recalls the important things his mother taught him, from how to cook, to being true to oneself – and chooses three much-loved family favorite recipes
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January in the food world has become near-synonymous with Veganuary, the annual 31-day meat- and dairy-free challenge. If you’re one of them – or if you would like to know more about what vegan eating is all about – ckbk has a huge range of recipes and resources.
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It will be a year that none of us will ever forget, but for all the wrong reasons. The Covid-19 pandemic wrought emotional and economic destruction for so many, but there’s no denying its epoch-defining importance, in our lives and in our kitchens. As we prepare to bid goodbye and good riddance, ckbk rounds up the recipes that defined how and what we ate in 2020 – and what we are looking forward to in 2021.
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Regula Ysewijn’s childhood fascination with British culture led to her becoming a food historian and author of two of the most respected books on British baking: Pride and Pudding (2016) and Oats in the North, Wheat from the South: British Baking, Savoury and Sweet (2020). She’s also a trained chef, a graphic designer, does her own food photography – and is a judge on the Flemish version of Bake Off. Regula tells ckbk about the childhood nursery rhyme that sparked her interest in Britain, what motivates her writing, what she finds most intriguing about British baking culture.
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Christmas celebrations may not have gone exactly to plan this year. Gatherings may be smaller and prone to last-minute adjustments, yet the urge to observe and celebrate festive traditions seems stronger than ever. We hope the recipes and ideas from these books, from classic cookies to traditional dishes, will provide help in marking this most unusual of Christmases. Here’s our guide to help you get into the spirit of the season.
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You love the holidays, but how much do you really know about Christmas foods? Take our quiz to test what you know.
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Food writer Gemma Croffie understands the value of cookbooks from bygone eras. There are plenty of reasons to look to the past, she says: They’re a window onto the past, they’re full of advice that’s actually useful – and they can be downright funny, too. Read them, cook from them, and you’ll also discover the roots of many of today’s cooking trends, from nose-to-tail eating to reducing meat. Here’s her selection of classics from ckbk’s vintage collection
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Prue Leith, a presenter of The Great British Bake Off, has partnered with her niece, Peta Leith, a professional pastry chef, to write The Vegetarian Kitchen. Kerstin Rodgers interviewed the pair over Zoom about their collaboration, how they handled lockdown, friendship with food-writing legends Mary Berry and Elizabeth David, and what life is really like in the Bake Off tent.
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The 850 recipes in Farm Journal’s Country Cookbook, collected from cooks all across the nation, are a collection of America’s best. Author Nell Beaubien Nichols was a prolific food writer and chronicler of American foodways, with no fewer than 17 cookbooks to her name, written over a period of more than 50 years. She is best known for the series of books written for the magazine Farm Journal.
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Cooking fish is easier than you might think, says supper club host and author Kerstin Rodgers, aka Ms Marmite Lover. Here she gives some simple tips for cooking fish and shares her top fishy finds on ckbk.
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The Seafood Shack: Food & Tales from Ullapool by Kirsty Scobie and Fenella Renwick was published on November 3rd. The book, including all 91 recipes, is now available in full via ckbk. Find our more in our Q&A with the authors.
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Through the shared language of food, the LIFE Project brings people closer and promotes a sense of understanding, compassion and unity between communities. This is the story of how the LIFE Project entrepreneurs came together to publish a cookbook.
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How deep does your pasta knowledge go? Take our quiz created in partnership with artisanal pasta makers Rustichella d’Abruzzo, to find out how much you really know.
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On the tenth anniversary of the publication of The Geometry of Pasta, ckbk co-founder Nadia Arumugam recalls where she discovered the book, tells why it was one of the first to appear on the ckbk site, and shares pasta-based memories from her time in Italy.
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The 700 recipes in Farm Journal’s Complete Pie Cookbook are a collection of America’s best. Author Nell Beaubien Nichols was a prolific food writer and chronicler of American foodways, with no fewer than 17 cookbooks to her name, written over a period of more than 50 years. She is best known for the series of books written for the magazine ‘Farm Journal’.
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