Who doesn't love a cookie! They are fun to bake, fun to give and receive, and great to eat. So here are four books to set you up for all the holiday cookie baking you could desire. From the classic to the creative, and all gorgeous and delicious. Let's bake.
Dumplings, those irresistibly tasty little spheres of goodness, will fill you up and warm you up at the same time. Dumplings can be made from wheat flour, gram (chickpea) flour, cornmeal, or leftover bread, and they're enjoyed the world over. The recipes in this collection include dishes from Ireland, the Caribbean, Palestine, India, and more.
Curated collections from ckbk's editors
For this year’s ckbk gift guide, we asked members of the ckbk team to each suggest both a favourite ingredient and a kitchen gadget that would make a great gift. Of course, it goes without saying that if you are looking for a gift for a food lover, the very first thing on your shopping list should be a ckbk gift subscription. For a strictly limited time, you can pick gift subscriptions half price with our BLACKFRIDAY24 special offer. So why not order a handful and cross several gifts off your list at once?
For those of us longing to be festive, we officially announce that Christmas prep is on! In Great Britain the last Sunday before advent is Stir Up Sunday—November 24 this year. A Victorian tradition, this is the day to make those Christmas treats that need to be made well ahead—such as Christmas pudding, fruitcake, and the mincemeat for mince pies. Several weeks of maturing and being ‘fed’ regularly with spirits ensures they are at their tip top best when the time to serve them comes around.
Fred Plotkin is an expert on both Italian opera and Italian food. His regional Italian cookbooks on the cooking of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and of Liguria have already delighted users of ckbk, and we pleased to also now make available The Authentic Pasta Book, his canonical work on real Italian pasta. Below Fred recalls the journey which led to the writing and publication of this much-loved work.
Everybody loves chocolate – we couldn’t agree more! In her new book Everybody Loves Chocolate: Delicious Recipes from Around the World, Australia-born food writer Jennifer Donovan takes an enthusiastic journey through Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, gathering chocolate goodness along the way. There is a chocolate recipe here for every person and every mood.
In this third installment of our series on cooking fundamentals, Cat Black moves on to look at bread, a food that is both utterly familiar and yet endlessly diverse.
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