Take a trip to Brazil and enjoy dishes with all the bright color and flavor of their home country. These four books share traditions and new innovations from Brazil's vibrant culinary scene. Whether you want to explore local ingredients, such as cassava, or try a Caipirinha cocktail, you will find something good to eat and drink.
Wherever you journey around the globe, you're pretty certain to find local cooks putting their defining twist on chicken wings. Succulent, versatile, and about as moresish as a food can get, chicken wings never fail to please. Try Piri-Piri Chicken Wings, serve them Korean style, or give your wings a Caribbean flavor.
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Derek Wolf launched website and social media account Over the Fire Cooking in 2016 with his wife Ally, in order to showcase their love of cooking over fire. Over the Fire is now a global success, connecting lovers of open air cooking and providing recipes, advice and connection. Derek's books include Flavor by Fire and Food by Fire.
Brooklyn-based cook and health coach Christine Wong has a focus on fresh and sustainable ingredients. She hosts workshops and shares her ethos through her Instagram community @conscious_cooking, and her 2024 book Vibrant Hong Kong Table: 88 Iconic Vegan Recipes from Dim Sum to Late Night Snacks.
Founder of The Tiny Budget Cooking website, Limahl Asmall is on a mission to share recipes that bring great food within reach of all. From cooking in Edinburgh kitchens, he is now a street food chef in London. Tiny Budget Cooking: Saving Money Never Tasted So Good is his first cookbook.
Founder of the industry-leading cheese specialist La Fromagerie in London, Patricia Michelson has great knowledge and influence in the artisan cheese scene in the UK, and has used her experience to widely share her great love of cheese. Her books include The Cheese Room, and Cheese: The World's Best Artisan Cheeses, a Journey Through Taste, Tradition and Terroir.
Rogelio Garcia is the excecutive chef of Michelin-starred restautant Aura in Napa Valley, California. His debut cookbook Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California's Wine Country won the 2025 James Beard Book Award in the Restaurant and Professional category.
Christina PIrello is a TV personality, author, and healthy eating advocate. Drawing on her own experience of illness and recovery, she shares the impact of diet on health, through her long-running television series Christina Cooks, and in her many cookbooks.
Morena Leite, the author of Brazil Rhythms and Recipes, is one of Brazil’s most well-known chefs but she more than just a chef. She is an artist of flavors, a passionate educator and a tireless social entrepreneur. Her work goes far beyond the kitchen — she connects people, transforms communities and plants seeds of food consciousness wherever she goes. Interviewing her I saw a sparkle in her eyes, a guiding faith behind her actions, and a clear life purpose. Morena is a unique individual — not just for her achievements or her singular name, but because she inspires generations through food made with love, technique, and intuition.
It’s that time of year, kids are off school, grownups are stocking up on sunscreen, and if you are lucky you might be packing a suitcase to head off for an adventure or two. But whether you are taking up residence in an Italian villa for a month, or revelling in a fuss-free staycation, holiday cooking will set the mood.
We have couple of gorgeous bakes newly risen from the ckbk oven—two books guaranteed to have you mastering the technicals and whipping up a showstopper.
“The baking at Margot is not always easy to define: our influences range from the fresh bold flavours found in Australian food, comforting recipes from the north of England to traditional Italian baking techniques and Polish and Hungarian fillings; we bake for both Jewish and Christian festivals.”
In today’s article we will be going through food styling and storytelling—this is where the magic really happens.
You’ve learned how to use your phone settings, light your shots, frame your composition and choose your camera angles… but this is the moment where your food photos start to feel like a story. And that’s what really connects with your audience.
Summer is the season to spend more time outside, and less in the kitchen. Just in time we bring you 15 Minute Meals: Truly Quick Recipes That Don’t Taste Like Shortcuts from New York based cookbook author, James Beard Award shortlisted food writer, novelist, podcaster and TV host Ali Rosen—a book of almost a hundred quick flavorful no-fuss ideas to help you eat well, fast.
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