News Feed: November 22, 2011
Don’t worry about it: Thanksgiving sides that make themselves in a slow cooker. [NYT]
The evolution of the human jaw: how the foods we eat shape our bodies. [NPR]
Giveaway: Win a Signed Copy of Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook

We’re officially at the height of cookbook season, with fresh releases dropping almost daily. Today brings one of the year’s most anticipated titles, Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook (Little, Brown & Company), from the restlessly ambitious restaurant that has made an assured climb into New York City’s highest stratum of dining. The book beams with an airy and pristine design that makes the photographs of Daniel Humm’s intricate food sparkle like stained glass. Among the challenging, seasonally sorted recipes are essays by general manager Will Guidara, which chronicle the restaurant’s journey from a casual brasserie to a four-star destination and the winner of the JBF Award for Outstanding Restaurant. It also reads like a manual to Danny Meyer’s signature approach to the restaurant business, with lessons on subjects like excellence, collaboration, and reinvention. Even cooks who may not be up for tackling uni
News Feed: September 28, 2011
Recipes with hot, melted cheese—need we say more? [Chow]
Forget white or dark meat: chefs just want chicken skin. [NYT]
This fall will yield a crop of excellent new cookbooks. [Boston Globe]
Fifteen creative recipes for apples. [Boston Globe]
Speculoos, a new nutella-like spread
News Feed: September 27, 2011
A writer's quest for the perfect meat loaf. [Forbes]
How to peel a head of garlic in under ten seconds. [Saveur]
Delicious cocktails for fall. [WSJ]
Michel Nischan explains how Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign could be even more effective. [Atlantic]
The Bookshelf: Dorie Greenspan’s Around My French Table
A celebrated author of ten cookbooks (and one of JBF’s first editors!), JBF Award winner Dorie Greenspan will stop by today’s Beard on Books to talk about her latest tome, Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes From My Home to Yours. We asked her to fill us in on her go-to recipes, favorite dining spots in New York, new state-of-the-art iPad app, and more. Read on for the interview.
JBF: Is there a recipe from your book that you use as your go-to entertaining dish?
Dorie Greenspan: I love to serve Salmon and Potatoes in a Jar for dinner parties. The salmon is rubbed with sugar and salt, like gravlax, and then packed into a canning jar with
Cookbook Sweepstakes: We Have a Winner!

Remember the sweepstakes we ran last month? We're happy to announce that A. Baldwin of East Haddam, Connecticut is the lucky winner of five indispensable JBF Award-winning cookbooks! Congrats! Don't forget, you can find all of the 2011 Award-winning and -nominated cookbooks in our Amazon store.
Sweepstakes: Help Us Reach 100K Twitter Followers and Enter to Win a Set of James Beard Award–Winning Cookbooks!
When we jumped headfirst into the social media universe a few years ago, we had no idea our online presence would grow at such a fast clip. In addition to our active Twitter feed, we now have a robust Facebook page, and we’re sharing the dishes we love on Foodspotting. But we’re hungry for more! We’ve set our sights on a particularly exciting social media milestone: 100,000 Twitter followers—and we need a little help from you to get us there. To sweeten the pot—and to thank you for your support—we’re going to give away five fantastic 2011 JBF Award–winning cookbooks! Here’s how you can enter the sweepstakes:1. Make sure you’re following us,
News Feed: July 19, 2011
Chefs & Champagne® honoree Emeril Lagasse on his favorite cookbooks. [NYP] RIA chefs on a roll—with a Beard House dinner as further proof. [USA Today]News Feed: June 16, 2011
A glimpse of post-El Bulli Spanish cuisine. [NYT]
Ever wanted to celebrate Swedish midsommar? All you need are food, friends, and schnapps. [NPR]
News Feed: June 15, 2011
An outcry against industrial tomatoes. [Gilt Taste]
Frank Bruni behind the counter, using chef cookbooks. [Food & Wine]
Seasonal produce—in map form. [Epicurious]
David Lebovitz documents his goofiest French supermarket finds. [David Lebovitz]
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