Category: Food / Cooking

Toast the New Year (with advice from John Shields)

Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields is bursting with a region’s worth of great recipes and charming stories—earning most recently a spot on the list of the year’s top five cookbooks from National Geographic’s food blog, The Plate. Wanting to raise a glass to John and his terrific book, and knowing that year-end toasting is drawing…

Toast the New Year (with advice from John Shields)

Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields is bursting with a region’s worth of great recipes and charming stories—earning most recently a spot on the list of the year’s top five cookbooks from National Geographic’s food blog, The Plate. Wanting to raise a glass to John and his terrific book, and knowing that year-end toasting is drawing…

A few thoughts from JHUP publicity manager Kathy Alexander (before she retires this week)

Guest post by Yasmine Z. Kaminsky Kathy Alexander, the publicity manager in the books marketing department at JHU Press, is retiring this October after fourteen years at JHUP. In her retirement, Kathy is looking forward to spending time with her family, writing a cookbook, focusing on her music, traveling, sewing, and painting. She is the…

Don’t miss the 2015 Baltimore Book Festival, September 25-27

Look for books from Johns Hopkins University Press at the Ivy Bookshop tent at this year's Baltimore Book Festival!  The Festival takes place at Baltimore's Inner Harbor  this weekend--with great music, food, and books, books, books (and more books).  The Ivy tent on Rash Field features a JHUP table with a display of some of…

Don’t miss the 2015 Baltimore Book Festival, September 25-27

Look for books from Johns Hopkins University Press at the Ivy Bookshop tent at this year's Baltimore Book Festival!  The Festival takes place at Baltimore's Inner Harbor  this weekend--with great music, food, and books, books, books (and more books).  The Ivy tent on Rash Field features a JHUP table with a display of some of…

Kicking off a sizzling summer of book talks, interviews, and more from JHU Press

Summer's here but that doesn't mean our staff and authors are all at the beach. Here's what's hot with the JHU Press this July. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11-14 July 2013 JHU Press exhibit — Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, NM Conference details; JHU Press science & math catalog ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11 July 2013,…

Kicking off a sizzling summer of book talks, interviews, and more from JHU Press

Summer's here but that doesn't mean our staff and authors are all at the beach. Here's what's hot with the JHU Press this July. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11-14 July 2013 JHU Press exhibit — Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Albuquerque Convention Center Albuquerque, NM Conference details; JHU Press science & math catalog ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 11 July 2013,…

June news and new books

News and Notes Take a look at our new Fall 2013 catalog to see what's in store for the coming season. Valerie Weaver-Zercher, author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels, writes about ‘Why Amish Romance Novels Are Hot’ in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Bowden writes in the The Atlantic,…