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Beach Eats: Favorite Surfside Recipes for Every Occasion
Coastal Living shares over 100 tantalizing recipes inspired by the coast. With jaw-dropping scenic photography from seaside locales around the globe and cues for setting your own enticing scene, Beach Eats is a guide to beach-inspired gatherings wherever you reside.
The beach is a gathering place for vacationers, an inspired place to call home for locals, and a magical spot for dreamers who live far from sea breezes and ocean waves. Likewise, seaside homes and sandy beaches are idyllic places for families and friends to come together to celebrate both the everyday and the special occasions few and far between.
This stunning cookbook reflects the locales people gather to share a drink, a meal, or a little something sweet by the shore—Cabana Bar, Beachside Grill, Seafood Shack, Roadside Stand, Boardwalk Bakery, and Ice Cream Cart.
Recipes include tropical thirst-quenchers like a Candied Kumquat Manhattan and a Ginger-Lime Daiquiri to enjoy with savory Crab Rangoon or creamy Macadamia-Coconut Dip. Grill up Hoisin Burgers with Pickled Vegetables or a White Pizza with Clams and Bacon. Cool off with Hawaiian Shaved Ice or tasty Avocado-Lime Paletas.
Beach Eats is the much-anticipated first cookbook from Coastal Living to be released in 15 years and it is the perfect complement to Coastal Living's guide to Beach Cocktails.
The beach is a gathering place for vacationers, an inspired place to call home for locals, and a magical spot for dreamers who live far from sea breezes and ocean waves. Likewise, seaside homes and sandy beaches are idyllic places for families and friends to come together to celebrate both the everyday and the special occasions few and far between.
This stunning cookbook reflects the locales people gather to share a drink, a meal, or a little something sweet by the shore—Cabana Bar, Beachside Grill, Seafood Shack, Roadside Stand, Boardwalk Bakery, and Ice Cream Cart.
Recipes include tropical thirst-quenchers like a Candied Kumquat Manhattan and a Ginger-Lime Daiquiri to enjoy with savory Crab Rangoon or creamy Macadamia-Coconut Dip. Grill up Hoisin Burgers with Pickled Vegetables or a White Pizza with Clams and Bacon. Cool off with Hawaiian Shaved Ice or tasty Avocado-Lime Paletas.
Beach Eats is the much-anticipated first cookbook from Coastal Living to be released in 15 years and it is the perfect complement to Coastal Living's guide to Beach Cocktails.
288 pages, Hardcover
Published May 9, 2023
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April 22, 2023
Beach Eats is a gorgeous cookbook! Loaded with photos and anecdotes, it is fun to flip through as you're trying to decide which recipe to try. This would make a lovely gift for any foodie!
June 15, 2023
I received a copy of this book for free in a Goodreads giveaway.
It's kind of weird reviewing a cookbook, since I don't read cookbooks like I would other books. I did try making four recipes from this book (I'm much more of a baker than a cook): Benne Wafers, Browned Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Flake Salt, Chocolate-Pistachio-Cherry Biscotti, and Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip Monster Cookies. These were all quite tasty, though not really anything out of the ordinary. The directions are clear, and they're also short recipes that don't require flipping pages to see the whole recipe, which was quite convenient. I'm used to seeing weights in grams in many recipes, though, for easy halving and sometimes even quartering of recipes, and I missed that in this book. Some of the ingredients have weights in ounces, like the butter and the flour, but not others, like sugar and oats, even though these could have easily had weights listed. Also, it's odd that the amount of butter is described in cups and ounces only, but not in sticks, which is pretty standard in other baking cookbooks. The Browned Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Flake Salt recipe says "serves 16" above it, even though the recipe clearly makes 32 cookies based on the way it says to divide each half of the dough into 16 balls. It's a weird assumption to make that a "serving" is two cookies; it would have been more useful to just say "makes 32 cookies," as it does for other recipes. There's also problems in the index, as there are two biscotti recipes in this book, and yet there's no "biscotti" entry in the index (they're both listed under "Cookies and bars"). From skimming the rest of the book, there's some other oddities, including a recipe called "Lillet Miss Sunshine" that mentions Lillet in both the recipe name and the headnote, and yet has no Lillet in the drink itself (it's a bourbon cocktail). The index for that is flawed, too: there's no entry for this drink under "Lillet" despite it being the first word in the name of the recipe (it is, however, listed under "Bourbon"). On the plus side, the book contains a lot of attractive pictures, of both the food and of various beaches around the world. There's definitely a few more recipes I might try from this book, but I think there were quite a few issues with it.
It's kind of weird reviewing a cookbook, since I don't read cookbooks like I would other books. I did try making four recipes from this book (I'm much more of a baker than a cook): Benne Wafers, Browned Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Flake Salt, Chocolate-Pistachio-Cherry Biscotti, and Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip Monster Cookies. These were all quite tasty, though not really anything out of the ordinary. The directions are clear, and they're also short recipes that don't require flipping pages to see the whole recipe, which was quite convenient. I'm used to seeing weights in grams in many recipes, though, for easy halving and sometimes even quartering of recipes, and I missed that in this book. Some of the ingredients have weights in ounces, like the butter and the flour, but not others, like sugar and oats, even though these could have easily had weights listed. Also, it's odd that the amount of butter is described in cups and ounces only, but not in sticks, which is pretty standard in other baking cookbooks. The Browned Butter-Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Flake Salt recipe says "serves 16" above it, even though the recipe clearly makes 32 cookies based on the way it says to divide each half of the dough into 16 balls. It's a weird assumption to make that a "serving" is two cookies; it would have been more useful to just say "makes 32 cookies," as it does for other recipes. There's also problems in the index, as there are two biscotti recipes in this book, and yet there's no "biscotti" entry in the index (they're both listed under "Cookies and bars"). From skimming the rest of the book, there's some other oddities, including a recipe called "Lillet Miss Sunshine" that mentions Lillet in both the recipe name and the headnote, and yet has no Lillet in the drink itself (it's a bourbon cocktail). The index for that is flawed, too: there's no entry for this drink under "Lillet" despite it being the first word in the name of the recipe (it is, however, listed under "Bourbon"). On the plus side, the book contains a lot of attractive pictures, of both the food and of various beaches around the world. There's definitely a few more recipes I might try from this book, but I think there were quite a few issues with it.
October 1, 2024
We plan on taking this with us on our beach vacation next summer. Have made 3 of the recipes so far and they were pretty tasty!
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