Fit, fed & informed: Tim White on the trend for healthy lifestyle titles
One of the major trends in cookbooks in recent years has been the growth and success of ‘healthy lifestyle’ titles, writes Books for Cooks co-owner Tim White.‘Diet’, from the Greek/French...
Macmillan acquires Cookstr; Schwalbe joins Macmillan
Macmillan US has acquired cookbook and recipe website Cookstr, reports Publishers Weekly. Will Schwalbe and Katie Workman founded the website in 2008, with the aim to organise ‘the world‘s best cookbooks...
Tim White: Does the cookbook industry need a gastric bypass?
Here at Books for Cooks, we are looking long and hard at the forthcoming publishers’ catalogues and book lists for Christmas. It’s with a mixture of equal parts excitement and...
Cooking the books: Food and drink feature
How will this year’s crop of Christmas cookbooks fare? Tiffany Bridger rounds up the highlights. Flavours from afar A cookbook from Tessa Kiros (Falling Cloudberries, Apples for Jam) is a...
The Motherlode: the best books for Mother’s Day
Craft and baking books are big this Mother’s Day, but if mum prefers to curl up with a new novel or bio, there are plenty of those too. Andrea Hanke...