Japanese culinary authority Elizabeth andoh wondered what she could do to help those in the devastated Tohoku region. Eager to preserve the area’s rich culinary heritage while nourishing the morale of displaced residents, she began writing KIB? (“Brimming with Hope”): Recipes & Stories from Japan’s Tohoku (Ten Speed Press, February 2012). Read in Elizabeth’s own words about the birth of Kibo, an eBook original from Ten Speed Press.

We went to The Slanted Door for the video shoot for Chef-Owner Charles Phan’s upcoming book, Vietnamese Home Cooking. And it gets better–the White on Rice Couple are creating the video!

Co-author Meredith Erickson takes us through the process of making a cookbook of sorts–The Art of Living According to Joe Beef–about the highly lauded Montreal restaurant Joe Beef.

Here we have a smorgasbord of all things Joe Beef: a video about the history of Joe Beef, a word from fans on Twitter, and the foreword and recipes from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef.

Ten Speed’s Art Director, Betsy Stromberg, traveled to Charleston, South Carolina to direct the photo shoot for Virginia Willis’s Basic to Brilliant, Y’all. Even Virginia’s mom helped out on set!