Ckbk Launches Digital Cookbook Subscription Service to the Professional Market

Ckbk, a new service providing seamless digital access to “the world’s best cookbooks” has launched an offering for the professional market. Ckbk is transforming how chefs find inspiration and hone their craft, the company said. Often compared to “Spotify for Cookbooks,” ckbk’s digital subscription service offers chefs and other food professionals easy access to classic reference works and technique manuals, alongside an extensive range of cookbooks which provide authoritative coverage of more than 100 national cuisines, it added.

Ckbk has already proved a hit with consumers, more than doubling its Kickstarter crowdfunding target. After being selected for the prestigious Techstars startup accelerator program in January, ckbk officially launched its consumer subscription service in March.

Ckbk’s new offering enables food professional to benefit from ckbk, with discounts for group subscriptions.

“Cookbooks are a vital professional resource — chefs including Marco Pierre White, Alastair Little, Jeremy Lee, and Giorgio Locatalli all point to cookbooks as having had a formative influence on their career,” said ckbk Co-founder and CEO Matthew Cockerill. “Ckbk’s collection has been curated with more than 8,000 recommendations from chefs and other food experts, and we are pleased to be able to support the next generation of chefs by making the best and most professionally-relevant cookbooks available online.”

Ckbk’s growing online collection of licensed content already includes more than 75,000 recipes from 350 cookbooks, offering an unparalleled professional and educational resource.

Professional cookbooks available for the first time online via ckbk include the works of Escoffier and Saulnier, which offer the definitive take on classical French cuisine, as well as

standard texts such as Professional Cooking, Professional Baking, and The Professional

Pastry Chef. Ckbk’s roster of licensed authors includes famous names from the U.S. (Jeremiah Tower, Francisco Migoya, Wayne Gisslen, Nick Malgieri, James Peterson, Marcella Hazan, Paula Wolfert, David Tanis, Steven Raichlen); the UK (Rowley Leigh, Shaun Hill, Alastair Little, Gary Rhodes, Ken Hom, Keith Floyd); and the rest of the world (Alain Ducasse, Paul Bocuse, Pierre Hermé, Peter Gilmore, Liam Tomlin).

Visit ckbk at https://join.ckbk.com/chef.