By: Tracey T.,
on 10/26/2015
Welcome to the biggest cookbook season of the year! September, October, and November rival the entire rest of the year with new cookbook releases. My fellow book buyers and I cooked from a selection of cookbooks, and I've reviewed them below. I've also included a list of some other new releases at the bottom of [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 9/4/2015
New cookbook releases come in slow and easy during the summer, giving us all a chance to kick back, dig around in the garden, and maybe even work on our salad skills to eat a little healthier. Or in my case, work on corn-on-the-cob eating skills where I try not to cover my entire face [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 6/30/2015
Let's not beat around the bush. The Powell's new book buyers like to eat. We have a special appreciation for brand-new cookbooks and for being among the first to try out the recipes. For our biannual potluck this spring, we were pleased to have fellow book-slinger visitors from Seattle: Pam and Anna from the University [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 5/22/2015
Spring is a heady time for cookbook releases. There are so many new cookbooks that it feels like Christmas; we even had an early spring mini potluck lunch for a taste testing. We have so much love for many of these new cookbooks. Missing from these reviews are a number of dessert cookbooks; there were [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 4/8/2015
Here in the Powell's offices, we are prone to geeking out over Pi Day. Not so much for the mathy-ness of it, although the math is pretty awesome. No, we get excited over the pie part. Pi Day starts early in the month for us, as we tuck into the piles of forthcoming cookbooks littering [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 3/3/2015
Most of the new cookbooks released in January and February tend to fall into the "healthy" and "diet" arenas. Luckily, we live in a time when healthy cooking can be so delicious and filling that we hardly know we are dieting. Not in the mood to diet? There is a short list of dessert cookbooks [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 2/3/2015
Editor's note: If there's one thing that's as delightful and delectable as books, it's bacon. Here, our cookbook specialist and On the Table writer Tracey shares her soon-to-be-famous Baked Bacon recipe. Step One: Do not preheat oven. (This is the most important step to remember.) This ensures the bacon has the long, slow cooking time [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 1/8/2015
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and these are the 2014 top-selling cookbooks at Powell's. Our number one bestseller: Plenty More by Yotam Ottolenghi. Not only does Ottolenghi have THE bestselling cookbook at Powells — he has three cookbooks in the top 10. My favorite, Jerusalem: A Cookbook, has been a bestseller since [...]
By: Tracey T.,
on 11/9/2014
October/November is a favorite time in our offices. These are the months when scads of cookbooks are released, a deluge of cookbooks, a tornado of cookbooks. To judge by my desk, it's a perfect (or, rather, imperfect) storm of cookbooks. I have over 50 newly released books piled up, with another pile of yet-to-be-released titles [...]
