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Preserving, Pickling & Canning

Get your preserving game on with a quartet of books to help you make the most of the season of abundance, keeping an array of bright colors and fresh flavors well beyond the harvest. Whether you want to create joyous jams and jellies, or spectacular sauerkraut, you'll find a new favorite recipe here.

Pickles, Illustrated

Pickles, Illustrated

Karen Solomon

This brightly illustrated guide is your invitation to a voyage down the Great Pickle Highway, with 36 recipes for famous and funky ferments, along with a jarful of fascinating pickle tidbits and lore. Instructions for each recipe include the preferred pickling method as well as expert guidance on the type of salt best suited for that particular pickled delicacy (whichever fruit, veggie, seafood, or mix of ingredients it may be).
The Art of Preserving

The Art of Preserving

Emma MacDonald

This sumptuous guide filled with beautiful photography and expert practical tips is guaranteed to be the only resource you will ever need to preserve fruit, vegetables, meat and fish. Now everyone can master the art of preserving with this simple, essential guide. More than 100 delicious recipes show how to make the most of any hedgerow-foraged bounty, allotment gluts or leftovers.
Canning for a New Generation by Liana Krissoff

Canning for a New Generation by Liana Krissoff

Liana Krissoff

With soaring food prices and the increasing popularity of all things domestic and DIY, there’s never been a better time to revisit the centuries-old techniques of preserving food at home.This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature’s bounty throughout the year.
Fermentation

Fermentation

Asa Simonsson

Fermented foods have been an integral part of the human diet for centuries, as Simonsson points out in this book - a thorough introduction to what can be a daunting subject, with well-researched, concise information about the science of fermentation, the equipment needed, and 64 recipes for vegetables, drinks, and sweet dishes.

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Recipe of the Day

Recipe of the Day

Martha Stewart’s Strawberries & Cream Chiffon Cake

Today Loves Food: Recipes from America’s Favorite Kitchen

Martha Stewart

"A bowl of berries and cream is one of life’s simplest pleasures. But when Martha Stewart wants to take simple to sumptuous, she turns the classic combo into a cake. This lighter-than-air chiffon cake will have you floating on a whipped-cream cloud while being hand-fed fresh strawberries. In other words, Martha says, it’s “what summer dreams are made of.” The TODAY Show

Author spotlight

Gabriella English

Gabriella English

Gabriella English is a cookery writer, recipe developer and food stylist. Her work has appeared in publications such as Olive Magazine, and Delicious. Seasonal Snacks is her debut cookbook.

Harper Alexander

Harper Alexander

Harper Alexander was a cinematographer when he discovered authentic Italian food thanks to his wife Eva Santaguida. Their YouTube channel Pasta Grammar is a hugely popular platform where they share recipes, videos and Italian food knowledge. The Italian Family Kitchen is their first cookbook.

Laurel Kratochvila

Laurel Kratochvila

Laurel Kratochvila is an American-born baker and writer based in Berlin, where she runs the acclaimed bakery Fine Bagels and natural wine bar Le Balto. Kratochvila trained at Le Cordon Bleu Paris after leaving a career in physics to pursue her passion for food and her debut book New European Baking was shortlisted for a James Beard Award in 2023. Her latest cookbook, Dobre Dobre (2025), celebrates the rich traditions and evolving story of Polish baking.

Features & Stories

Cooking with Kids: Part 4 – Party Time! Snacks, Sweets and Fancy Drinks for Young Chefs to Make

Cooking with Kids: Part 4 – Party Time! Snacks, Sweets and Fancy Drinks for Young Chefs to Make

Throughout the series we’ve used tasty dishes to get kids engaged;  learned cooking fundamentals through traditional recipes from around the world; and experienced first-hand how a simple sauce can transform food from meh to mouthwateringly-delicious!

In this concluding installment of Cooking with Kids, we’re hoping your newly-skilled young chefs are ready to take charge of their own summer party menu. Here are three different snack-centric menus for a spicy set of parties, each selected with kids in the kitchen in mind.

Celebrating Glorious American Food for the 250th anniversary of the United States

Celebrating Glorious American Food for the 250th anniversary of the United States

To mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, we invited publisher Lena Tabori to tell us the story behind Glorious American Food, the multi-award winning large format cookbook by her friend, the late Christopher Idone, which was recently added to ckbk and which celebrates the richness of America’s culinary traditions.

Newsletter: 🍋Lots of lemony goodness + cook along with Anne of Green Gables 📚

Newsletter: 🍋Lots of lemony goodness + cook along with Anne of Green Gables 📚

“The lemon is delightfully versatile. We take it for granted as we peruse the greengrocer’s shelf, and without thinking about it, we buy one or two along with a bunch of parsley—sometimes before even deciding what we might be cooking for dinner. Sometimes lemon juice is incorporated into a dish during the early stages of preparation and sometimes it is added after cooking. Even the zest is often an integral part of a recipe and should never be tossed away.”