As we give a warm welcome to two titles that celebrate the joys of supreme kitchen gadgetry – cookbooks on the air fryer and the Instant Pot, we take the opportunity to consider some of the most well-loved kitchen gadgets and find out what our chefs and food writers have to say about them.
Read MoreFormer chef and restaurateur Chris Lawrence ponders how books by Auguste Escoffier and Harold McGee, written a century apart, have had a profound effect on the way that chefs, recipe writers, and home cooks think about food and how they cook. He argues for more care to be taken in recipe creation – and tells why he welcomes the digital recipe revolution
Read MoreWant 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.
Read MoreGaining 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.
Read MoreIn The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook, Dr Annie Gray’s meticulous historical research gives fascinating insight into the cooking of the early 20th century and delivers recipes that hold plenty of appeal for contemporary cooks.
Read MoreTessa Kiros talks to ckbk about her culinary influences and the inspiration behind her cookbooks, from her Finnish-Greek Cypriot background, to the Famous Five and Elizabeth David.
Read MoreElizabeth Schneider’s Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary, is as relevant today as it was when it was first published. In a piece written exclusively for ckbk, the author reflects on how much – and how little – the food world has changed since the book’s publication.
Read MoreMaury Rubin is the creator of City Bakery in Manhattan, and author of Book of Tarts, published just over 25 years ago. We asked Rubin to cast his mind back to the early days of City Bakery, and tell us about how his award-winning book came into being.
Read MoreTributes poured in from around the world following the news of the death of Nach Waxman on August 4, aged 84. The owner of the renowned New York City cookbook store Kitchen Arts & Letters was known for his generosity and enthusiasm. Over the course of nearly 40 years, his store became the focus for a worldwide community of chefs, writers and home cooks with a passion for cookbooks.
Read MoreFred Plotkin’s Recipes From Paradise: Life and Food on the Italian Riviera is a love letter to Liguria, which he says “may be as close to paradise as one can find on this earth”. Plotkin tells ckbk why Liguria is the part of Italy that will always hold the most fascination for him.
Read MoreEvery professional kitchen will have a food thermometer on hand to accurately measure the internal temperature of meat, fish, cakes, bread, preserves and more. Now you can win one for your home kitchen, thanks to our friends at Thermapen.
Read MoreYou can now keep track of what you have cooked from the ckbk’s collection of trusted cookbook recipes, and share your experiences with other members of the ckbk community.
Read MoreAlmost 50 years ago, Roy Andries de Groot, an aristocratic, eccentric, and profoundly blind British American food writer took a trip to France that would, indirectly, change the course of American cooking. The book that resulted captures a moment in culinary time and place like perhaps no other, and its influence has been profound.
Read MoreCandida Crewe, daughter of food critic Quentin Crewe, reflects on the life of her father and how he came to pen what many chefs regard as one of the best books on French cuisine ever written, Great Chefs of France.
Read MoreIn the monumental tome, The Complete Guide to Traditional Jewish Cooking (2006), food writer Marlena turns historian and storyteller to explore “a cuisine that is as diverse as it is delicious.” We spoke to Marlena about Jewish traditions that matter most to her personally and how she has had to start from scratch again in her understanding of flavor.
Read MoreWe Are La Cocina showcases the exceptional talent of the groundbreaking San Francisco food business incubator, bringing together stories from the chefs who share a kaleidoscope of recipes with their roots in Mexico, Cambodia, Iraq, and beyond. Read what La Cocina’s founders and supporters have to say about the organization, and the book.
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreJune 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.
Read MoreWe’ve teamed up with our friends at Kokoro Care Packages for your chance to win a hand-crafted care package filled with artisan Japanese food.
Read MoreMany cookbooks kick off with an introductory chapter, running through the kitchen basics and store cupboard essentials which will be among the building blocks to let you create the dishes within.
But what about the basics themselves. Should you be happy with finding the best quality you can from a reliable producer? Might there not be benefits to making these basics own from scratch, too?
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