Flipping through some cookbooks can feel like an escape into a reality show, with recipes accompanied by glossy photographs of carefully stylized food and immaculately groomed diners gathered around ...

If you’ve logged your requisite man-hours staring fixedly at Great British Bake-Off reruns, you’ll need no introduction to Ruby Tandoh, the British baker and writer who was runner-up on the show’s ...

Ruby Tandoh is a pastry chef turned food writer and cookbook author in the UK. She was a finalist on season 4 of the "Great British Bake Off" and published "Eat Up!: Food, Appetite and Eating What You ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The fact that I live close to a dedicated cookbook-and-food-writing store—and that it’s ...