We asked chocolate expert Cat Black for some sweet recommendations with a Valentine theme. Whether your partner is spicy, fruity, or even a little bit nutty, ckbk offers endless ways to demonstrate your love for them with chocolate.
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Sugar and spice do very much add up to all things nice in Eleanor Ford’s brand new book A Whisper of Cardamom, which we are excited to have for you on publication day. Eleanor Ford is a multi-award-winning food writer – most recently for her third book The Nutmeg Trail – with a special interest in, and aptitude with, spice. For our newest feature we caught up with her to discuss her latest book, in which she explores the culinary magic created by sugar and spice.
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A Whisper of Cardamom, published this week, is available in full to ckbk subscribers. In this feature we delve into the tantalising interplay of flavour and emotion in Eleanor Ford’s enticing new book!
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Claire Ogley Head of Campaigns, Policy and Research for The Vegan Society shares tips, cookbooks and advice for Veganuary, particularly for those looking to maintain protein levels for an active lifestyle.
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Food writer, cookbook author, and founding editor of Taste magazine, Pepita Aris is an authority on Spanish cuisine. During her decades long career, on television and radio, in her books and magazine articles, she has brought knowledge, understanding, and recipes from her beloved Spain to a wide audience.
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ckbk has teamed up with Scoolinary, the leading online culinary school, to offer a free three month trial membership giving you access to Scoolinary’s collection of more than 200 video courses from top chefs including Jordi Roca and Antonio Bachour.
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Roberta Muir, who ran the Sydney Seafood School for more than a decade, shares her enthusiasm for these many-legged, strange looking, but delicious molluscs.
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Tempting new recipes are always welcome, but in the grey of January back-to-work time (for those in the Northern hemisphere anyway), they are all the more so. We have two books newly added to ckbk that are tempting indeed.
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In the latest feature in our Consuming Passions series, food writer and supperclub host Kerstin Rodgers explains why the aubergine is much more than just a saucy emoji…
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Comfort food recipes to ease you into the New Year, suggestions for anyone going plant-based for Veganuary, and details of #ckbkclub's book of the month, Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi.
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How to get the most from ckbk—our comprehensive guide for new members to find your next favorite recipe, cookbook, and author.
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Do you sometimes find it hard to read the small text of ckbk recipes? Or would you like to squeeze more search results onto your phone screen for quicker browsing? Good news – you can now adjust the text size used in the ckbk app.
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What’s been hot on ckbk in 2023? Here’s a list of the most accessed recipes from books newly added to ckbk in 2023, as well as a list of the most popular recipes in 2023 from books which are long-established as favorites on ckbk.
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The latest book to be added to ckbk’s collection is Pellegrino Artusi’s era-defining work, Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well.
The book is a foundational text on Italian cuisine, first published in 1891 (not long after Italian unification) and still of key relevance today. It is celebrated by contemporary Italian chefs such as Giorgio Locatelli (who described it as “life-changing”) and writers including Bill Buford and Anna del Conte.
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With Christmas day fast approaching, are you still charging wildly along the high street in the hopes of finding something your sister will actually like? Leave the crowds behind, the perfect gift for any food lover in your life – is there anyone in your life that isn’t! – is at your fingertips.
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Amoul Oakes is a London-based chef, originally from Lebanon. Her restaurant in London’s Maida Vale, Amoul’s, was open from 2003-2018 and was acclaimed by critics including Jay Rayner for its soulful home-cooked dishes, which reflected Amoul’s recollections of the food made by her mother and grandmother. Her book, Amoul: Some family recipes is now available in full on ckbk. Here Amoul shares her enthusiasm for the ancient grain freekeh, and offers a bonus recipe for freekeh served with chickpeas and spinach.
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No matter how many office parties or meetups with friends and family the coming weeks hold, Christmas Day itself is central to the holiday season. And for the cook of the household that can mean a lot of work and expectation. Tip one: delegate. Tip two: take your time to look through the wealth of Christmas recipes and resources on ckbk to make your Christmas lunch a pleasure to cook and eat.
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Until bullying vanilla swept them aside, the flavours of orange blossom and of roses were the UK’s favourites in both sweet and savoury food. Following vanilla’s all-conquering rise, flower waters are now comparatively rarely used in Europe and the USA (except in better restaurants from the Near and Middle East and the Indian continent).
What a lot we are missing, ignoring the flavour heritage of many centuries of British cuisine that has fascinating roots…
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Canadian Luay Gharafi, the author of Seed to Table: A Seasonal Guide to Organically Growing, Cooking and Preserving Food at Home, joined his local Community Supported Agriculture program in 2009 and was immediately hooked. From there he went on to study in Toronto, enrolling in George Brown University's culinary arts program. In his food, fresh produce, and its cultivation, comes first.
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This week we are delighted to welcome La Comida del Barrio: Latin-American Cooking in the USA to ckbk. This 2003 cookbook was the debut title from chef Aarón Sánchez, who is now known to millions in his role as a judge on the US edition of Masterchef.
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