Cookbooks I can't do without
Get the secret password to our newly expanded Ultimate Cookbook Gift Guide-in-progress. Plus we won a Webby — on our one-year anniversary! 🎉
Happy Friday, enthusiastic cook!
I have so many things to tell you. First, we won a People’s Voice Webby Award!!! This newsletter was nominated for “the Internet’s highest honor” by the Webby judges in the category of Best Email Newsletters: Health, Wellness and Lifestyle. (There was no cooking or food category, so we slotted into lifestyle. Though our recipes do tend to be pretty healthy.) The nomination on its own was an incredible honor, as the Webby Awards received nearly 13,000 entries from all 50 states and over 70 countries worldwide this year. A gazillion people must have voted for us — thank you if you were one of them! And heartfelt thanks even if you didn’t — I deeply appreciate your readership and your support.
The acknowledgement is all the sweeter because the nomination came when we were still in our very first year.
The judges’ award went to Prism — an outstanding wellness newsletter I hadn’t been aware of. (Naturally I subscribed!) Congratulations to the creators! There are several food writers among Prism’s contributors, including
(whose newsletter I recommend) and (whose newsletter I also recommend). You may know Clarissa’s name from her cookbook, Made in Taiwan, which I included in a review of three Taiwanese cookbooks in January.The author of another cookbook included in that triple-review,
, won a People’s Voice Webby in the category of Best Website: Food & Drink. That is huge! Do check out his Substack, , and if you’re interested in Taiwanese cooking, definitely buy his book. Kudos, Dumpling!Cookbook guide updated
On another subject, just in time for Mother’s Day, I’ll be introducing a major update to CWB’s Ultimate Cookbook Gift Guide. The guide collects the books — some new, most not-so-new — that are my all-time favorites, books I can’t imagine not having on my shelf. Of course they make great gifts — for mom, for a grad who loves to cook or wants to learn, for dad, for a friend, for yourself.
Last December the early version launched, with just 20 titles to start.
Now I’m in the process of expanding the list — to more than 70 titles. I thought I’d do something crazy: Let you in to see it before it’s published. In fact, it’s not even finished! You can see all the titles, but not all the descriptions have been added yet.
You can go on a private shopping spree! At the end of this note, I’ll give you a password that’ll get you in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s a sneaky trick, because only paid subscribers can read this weekly email to the end. (Free subscribers have a full post coming on or about May 1!) That said, don’t you want to subscribe to the only cooking newsletter to win a Webby Award this year? 😊
Seriously, though, Cooks Without Borders depends on subscriptions from this newsletter to fund initiatives such as cookbook reviews — which are very expensive to produce.
Again, I deeply appreciate your support. As a thank you, please enjoy 25% off one-year paid subscriptions, now through May 1. (A subscription makes a great Mother’s Day gift as well!)