Whether you are a professional chef, a culinary student, or a home cook looking to learn new techniques and recipes, it pays to learn from a professional. Professional cookbooks take their task seriously, including foundational skills, core recipes, and then tempting ideas and inspiration built from those. Dip in, or take the full course, with these four classics in the genre. And don't forget to explore our entire Professional Bookshelf.
The season may be brief (from December to February), but preserved as marmalade, Seville oranges will enhance your breakfast the year round. Seville marmalade is also a fantastic ingredient for cakes, desserts (it makes a great glaze on desserts like Orange and Crumbled Phyllo Cake) and it can be used to add a bittersweet tang to savoury dishes too, especially duck. Check out the ckbk Consuming Passions feature for more marmalade-making tips.
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After the season of plentiful traditional food, and the inevitable downtime over the holidays, what could be better than fresh new flavors to brighten wintery days and enliven your palate. For invigorating tastes, looks to East Asia, with its culinary culture of intense bright flavors and vibrant colors. We have three books newly added to ckbk, bursting with East Asian goodness.
It’s a wrap for 2025! Another year of milestones for ckbk, including adding the 1,000th cookbook to our ever-growing online collection. Thanks to all the ckbk users, authors and publishers who have helped us along the way. Below we present a list of the books and recipes which have been used most through the year via the ckbk website and app.
To all of you, a gigantic thank you for being with us along the way in 2025, we appreciate every one of you, your wonderful comments, the recipes you try and share with us, your place in our food-loving community. Thank you.
As we finish up the mince pies, and lunch on turkey sandwiches, we turn our thoughts to New Year’s Eve, what to make for the party of the year, and what to raise a glass of.
Christmas pudding is that once a year treat, rich in sweet fruits, seasoned with spice and more than its fair share of brandy, and everyone looks forward to it. Unless, of course, you don’t. It you are one of the naysayers, never fear, we’ve got a recipe for that. Your Christmas table will nonetheless be graced with a pudding to thrill them all, fitting of the annual feast.
Jewish food is as rich and varied as the many communities worldwide who have developed their own traditions, and evolve them today. As we publish Judi Rose’s feature on Hanukkah, we are delighted also to highlight the addition of her latest book to ckbk. In To Life!: Healthy Jewish Food, written together with her cousin Dr Jackie Rose, Judi combines aspects of a nutritious Mediterranean diet with Jewish culinary traditions, taking inspiration from her mother's recipes.
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