Have you ever hesitated to try a recipe because it didn’t have a photo? You’re not alone! A great image can make all the difference, offering inspiration and confidence in the kitchen. Now, you can help fill the gaps and bring classic and modern cookbooks to life by sharing your own photos – and win exciting prizes!
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To celebrate the addition of Cooking Price-wise by Vincent Price to ckbk’s cookbook collection, we are pleased to offer a copy of the newly released Blu-ray edition of the associated TV series as the prize in our latest recipe photo upload competition.
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To celebrate the addition to ckbk of several cookbooks by Irish-French author Trish Deseine, and with an eye on the impending St Patrick’s Day celebrations, we spoke to Trish about her Irish roots, her love of the regional cooking of France, and some of the dishes which have meant the most to her over the years.
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This week we are delighted to add The Frozen Peas Cookbook to ckbk, ahead of the book’s print publication on 13 March 2025. Like author Samuel Goldsmith’s previous book (The Tinned Tomatoes Cookbook), the new title showcases creative ways with a familiar staple, ensuring that you are never out of ideas. We spoke to Sam about the motivation for his two cookbooks, his work as a food editor and podcast host, and his tips for success in the kitchen.
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It’s peak citrus season. In this latest contribution to our Consuming Passions series, chef, food writer and fermenter Clare Heal says it’s the perfect time to make preserved lemons and shares some of her favourite ways to use them.
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Jenny Linford is the author of numerous cookbooks and food guides. In this latest contribution to our Consuming Passions series, she celebrates her love of tofu, one of the most flexible and adaptable ingredients that you will ever come across.
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Jo Pratt is a prolific cookbook author, and five of her cookbooks are now available to ckbk members: The Flexible Vegetarian, The Flexible Family Cookbook, In the Mood for Entertaining, In the Mood for Healthy Food and Madhouse Cookbook. For our latest author profile we spoke to Jo about a range of topics including her favourite cheeses, top kitchen hacks and Valentine’s Day ideas, and the Gary Rhodes recipe she keeps going back to…
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40 years ago, Shirley Spear and her husband opened The Three Chimneys, a restaurant on the Isle of Skye which went on to win a Michelin star and which transformed perceptions of Scottish cooking. In this Behind the Cookbook feature, Shirley, who was the restaurants Head Chef until 2005, tells us how her interest in Scotlands culinary heritage was first awakened and how the seasonal harvest from Scotland’s fields and lochs drove the development of her menu.
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Choosing wild game has so many advantages and benefits for the planet, and for you. Alongside being a sustainable choice and reducing your carbon footprint, you can enjoy tasty and versatile meals at an affordable price.
It’s easy to make swaps from your usual farmed meats to create delicious mid-week meals; choose wild venison steak over beef, pheasant or partridge instead of chicken in a curry, a rabbit ragu instead of beef mince or even a wild duck for your Sunday roast.
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James Read is the founder of artisanal kimchi brand Kim Kong Kimchi (a Nigella favourite) and the author of On Cabbages and Kimchi, a bestselling book on fermented food. Here he digs into this obsession and highlights fermentation-related books and recipes from ckbk’s collection.
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The Dooky Chase Cookbook, first published in 1990 and re-issued last year, is the latest classic title to be added to ckbk. Its author, Leah Chase (1923–2019), was known as the “Queen of Creole Cuisine”. While she stood less than 5 feet tall, she had an outsize influence on food culture in her hometown of New Orleans, and far beyond.
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It’s great to see more and more recipe reviews appearing on ckbk each week! Reviews help to identify the standout dishes in ckbk’s large (and sometimes almost overwhelming) collection of cookbooks. Reviews are also a great way for users to share their practical tips, based on their experience cooking a recipe—and quite often the cookbook author may chime in with advice too. To make reviews even more useful, we’ve now added the ability to include a photo so you can show how the recipe worked out. Read on to find out how to use this feature, and how you could win a ckbk apron and free ckbk Premium Membership for a year.
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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?
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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.
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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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The latest ckbk author Q&A is with Radhika Howarth, whose new cookbook, Radikal Kitchen, has a unique format, following the journey of specific dishes and ingredients along the Silk Road, and other trade routes. Don’t miss a special bonus - a video showing how to make Radhika’s “radikal” version of the Indian-spiced South African classic dish, Bunny Chow.
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Dates may seem like just another unexceptional dried fruit, but they are a food with a long history. In this latest contribution to the Consuming Passions series Joel Haber, a food historian specializing in Jewish food, shows the many diverse ways in which this fruit can be enjoyed.
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Dip In Brilliant is restaurateur Dipna Anand’s second cookbook, and it has recently been added to ckbk. Women In The Food Industry co-founder Mex Ibrahim spoke to Dipna about her inspiration for the recipes and the culinary adventures you will find in the book. Dip In Brilliant showcases not only delicious Punjabi delights, but also some of Dipna’s quirky recipe creations and some of her mum’s magical recipes too.
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Niloufer Mavalvala’s books have helped to bring Parsi cooking to much widespread attention. In this latest Behind the Cookbook feature, Niloufer tells ckbk about the origins of this unique style of cooking and how she came to write The Art of Parsi Cooking (just added to ckbk) and its followups.
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In the second feature in this ckbk series (following on from the inaugural Introduction to Pastry), Cat Black offers an overview of the culinary uses of this vital grain - “Rice 101”, if you will…
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