Every year Sourdough September shines a light on the real bread-baker's loaf of choice, sourdough. If you have never made sourdough bread, the wisdom in this selection of books will help you get started, demystifying the starter, the rise, and all those things you need to create a satisfying loaf. If you are already a seasoned baker, then explore a range of recipes to up your sourdough game.
A little effort when the abundant summer herbs and vegetables are at their peak and you can capture summer in a jar. Preserve a glut of tomatoes with recipes for tomato jam, oven-dried tomatoes and even an end-of-summer green tomato relish. While giadiniera, the classic Italian pickle, uses whatever veg you have to hand, the same with English piccalilli.
Curated collections from ckbk's editors
To mark the addition to ckbk of the newly published title Egypt: Recipes and stories from an ancient land, ckbk user Omar Khafagy (now based in Toronto) shares his contribution to our Tales from the chopping board series, looking back on his Egyptian culinary heritage.
Saturday 17th October 2026 will see the second annual edition of the Serve it Forth online festival of food history. Food history is a key part of ckbk’s offering, with the website including cookbooks from every era, and many books devoted to the subject of food history. Below, the team behind Serve it Forth share their personal favorite historic cookbooks from ckbk’s collection.
Featuring an interview with Lauren Lovatt, a plant-based chef whose books Mind Food and Plant Academy: The Cookbook were recently added to ckbk, and even more vegan dishes from UK-based chef Antonio Alderuccio in his book Veganissimo!: The Plant-based & Gluten-Free Italian Kitchen.
ckbk offers a range of ways to personalize the website and app to match your needs, including metric vs US units, font size and light/dark mode. The latest new setting lets you specify your dietary preferences for search.
We know that healthy eating and nutrition is an important consideration for many users of ckbk, and so we are very pleased to announce major new features which make nutrition information available across ckbk's entire collection of 175,000+ cookbook recipes.
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