This week: EYB links up with ckbk; recipes; EYBD Previews and more

May 12, 2023 by
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It’s been a busy and exciting week at Eat Your Books. This week we announced that we have connected the EYB database to ckbk’s library of digital cookbooks. ckbk is a cookbook subscription site where you can access the full content of more than 700 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed here on EYB (and more will be indexed every week). For all the details, please see Jane’s post.

As a reminder, our Ideas on how to make EYB work better for you (updated with EYB new features and helpful articles) is continually updated with new information.

The last week on Eat Your Books

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one. Darcie can be followed on Instagram at darcie_bakes.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

My Instagram is thecookbookjunkies.

Jenny and the EYB Team

Recently Indexed Titles

Our team of member and pro indexers are working hard indexing titles, both new and old. Below are just a few highlighted titles that were recently indexed. Remember the most current indexed titles – will always show up at the top of the EYB Library and your Bookshelf. Recent indexed magazines can be found here. For information on member indexing, please see this roundup with more details.

Member Photo of the Week

Bursting blueberry lemon layer cake from Half Baked Harvest by Tieghan Gerard submitted by member djnielsen64

You can add Half Baked Harvest to your Bookshelf for 2,832 additional recipes

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Featured Online Recipe

Crispy coconut, asparagus and green bean salad from Ottolenghi at The New York Times by Yotam Ottolenghi

Add Ottolenghi at The New York Times to your Bookshelf for 91 additional recipes and Ottolenghi.co.uk for 364 additional recipes

Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

Dark chocolate cookies from Cook It Up: Bold Moves for Family Foods by Alex Guarnaschelli and Ava Clark. This cookbook written by Alex and her daughter, Ava, is scheduled for publication on September 5th, 2023.

We currently have 6,486 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.

EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,596th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages are available including the titles below.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: All Preview recipes are indexed, whether the full book is indexed or not. Any Preview recipe can be added to your Bookshelf.

The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways including those open worldwide and to other regions.

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  • EskieF  on  May 12, 2023

    EYB-CKBK not quite working. Where I have a physical book already, and it is on my EYB bookshelf (e.g. Anne Willan – French Regional Cooking) – as well as on ckbk DB, when I list the book’s recipes on EYB, only the first page of EYB results shows the ckbk link. Pages 2-Last appear as before. I have checked this with a few books – same result. The recipes PAST EYB’s 2nd page and later are on the CKBK database – it seems the EYB retrieval and page list code loses the CKBK pointer/link after the first page!

    • Jane  on  May 12, 2023

      Sorry about that – a bug that will get fixed ASAP.

    • Jane  on  May 12, 2023

      The bug is now fixed and all ckbk recipe links are showing.

  • EskieF  on  May 13, 2023

    EYB-CKBK still not quite working. While the loss of the ckbk link past Page 1 of EYB recipe scrolling of book has been fixed (thanks!) – there are still random (?) losses of the link to some recipes. Check out one example – Darina Allen’s ‘Simply Delicious’ book, recipe ‘Ballymaloe Irish Beef Stew’ does not show the ckbk link, but is definitely on the ckbk DB. I haven’t found a pattern for this dropping of links at recipe level yet (ckbk sequencing of recipes different to EYB’s??) – if I do I’ll let you know. (My years as an IT systems architect have made me dogged on IT systems testing! 🙂

    • Jane  on  May 18, 2023

      We are clearing up the mismatches as quickly as we can. Simply Delicious is now fixed.

  • EskieF  on  May 13, 2023

    Following on from my last ‘bug’ comment – one pattern I see is that the recipes without the ckbk link (incorrectly) on EYB are recipes whose names are annotated with an * on ckbk (not sure why the * – I’ve asked ckbk). If EYB is doing an exact string match on the recipe name, then the ‘*’ on the CKBK side will mean there is no match! I guess the EYB side could ignore a trailing ‘*’ in its string match?

  • EskieF  on  May 13, 2023

    Final comment on the recipe name matching bug – it is a problem with string matching. Example: Book: The Nutmeg Trail. Recipe (EYB) Egyptian “birds’ tongues” soup (no CKBK match) Recipe (in CKBK) EGYPTIAN ‘BIRDS’ TONGUES’ SOUP – the names don’t match because EYB indexer used double quotation marks, CKBK imported digital version with single quotation marks. Result: No string match!

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