ckbk: A World of recipes at the touch of a button
Few things are as satisfying as cooking a delicious meal from scratch, yet there’s one ingredient that home chefs always need an abundance of; inspiration.
From season to season, it’s easy to get into something of a cooking rut – and even easier to get into the habit of cooking the same rotation of meals; salads in the summer, stews in the winter, roasts at the weekend and pasta in between.
There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, but sometimes we forget what an incredible multitude of dishes, cuisines and cookery techniques are available to us – and there’s nothing like discovering an exciting new recipe that you and your family adore.
Enter ckbk, an inspiring digital subscription service for cookery lovers. Their fun, colourful and easy-to-use online subscription service provides a constantly updating collection of the ‘world’s best cookbooks’ which packs in an astounding 120,000 recipes from over 600 cookbooks, with more added to the mix each month. Many accessed by and included in ICSA cookery courses.
The service has some very clever features to make choosing and cooking your next meal a doddle. You can create and share your own recipe ‘playlists’, explore regional cuisines from around the world, swipe to view full cookbook pages, add private notes, filter your searches by diet and dish type, and get advice from the ckbk community.
Some of the most popular cookbooks this month include Mowgli Street Food, Sumac (Syrian recipes), Taste Tibet, Better Baking, The Cooking of the USA, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, For the Love of the Sea and even the entire range of Le Cordon Bleu.
You’ll find the latest concoctions from gourmet greats like Prue Leith, Levi Roots, Paul Bocuse, Lorraine Pascal, Yotam Ottolenghi, Stephane Reynaud and many more.
And if you fancy cooking up something a little different, you’re in luck; how about recreating Annie Gray’s Victorian concoctions in Official Downton Abbey Cookbook? Or perhaps you’d like to indulge your cheese obsession with Georgeanne Brennan’s eponymous book on 100 recipes to create with cheese?
And for those who follow a plant-based diet, there are countless vegan options – including Hannah Kaminsky’s ultimate book on vegan desserts (toasted coconut keylime ice cream, anyone?) and Rose Elliott’s classic Complete Vegan.
