Loco for local

May 11, 2010 by
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The summer cookbooks have been rolling in and holy guacamole!  It's farmer's markets and local foods, left and right.  And it's not just the cookbook authors and advocates anymore.  There's Fast, Fresh & Green by Susie Middleton.   Melissa's Everyday Cooking with Organic Produce from the famous produce company.  Eating Local by the folks at Sur La Table, Edible from the Edible… read more

Spring fever

May 8, 2010 by
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Is it my imagination, or has it been the longest, sweetest spring in recent memory? A couple of months ago, at a time when the frozen ground usually still rings like iron when struck by a futile hoe, I had lettuce seedlings sprouting in the garden beds, the kids were running in the warm grass, and the daffodils were in… read more

EYB Road Trip

May 4, 2010 by
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We got back home today after two weeks on the road.  In two weeks we visited San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston and New York.  Had some wonderful experiences, climaxing Sunday night with the James Beard Awards in NY.  A parade of amazing cookbook authors took the stage - Claudia Roden (Cookbook Hall of Fame for A Book of Middle Eastern Food),… read more

Eat Your Books Award at IACP

April 23, 2010 by
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We just got back from the IACP Cookbook Awards where I presented the Eat Your Books Award.  All the nominees were tremendous books - we were delighted to present it to Stephanie Alexander for Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion.  Well, I would have done if she had been there so it went to Lauraine Jacobs from New Zealand (an ex-IACP… read more

EYB at IACP

April 21, 2010 by
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We had our first day today at the IACP Conference in Portland, Oregon.  It was a packed and exciting day.  Lots of networking and meeting interesting people.  And tonight there was the opening reception where Portland's finest chefs and vineyards produced the food and wine.  Excessive sampling of everything ensued.  But the highlight for me was that I met Madhur Jaffrey -… read more

Site maintenance

April 17, 2010 by
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We will be doing some essential maintenance on the website this morning which will require the site to be down for up to 5 hours from 10:30am (EST).  Apologies if you need to use EYB at that time. Hopefully you will find the inconvenience worth it, as we will then be increasing the size of the EYB Library to over… read more

Need help from EYB members

April 14, 2010 by
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We are soon planning to test the new EYB searches that we have been working away at recently.  It will take about 30-40 minutes and you would do it from home on your own computer, on April 27 or 29.  If you think you might be interested please email me at info@eatyourbooks.com with some basic info - age, work/at-home/retired, # of cookbooks,… read more

Lighting the fire

April 12, 2010 by
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The last snow was only a week and a half ago, and already this year's grill books are arriving. I don't blame the publicists for wanting to hasten the warm weather.  Last week, I bought my own first sack of charcoal for the season and threw the first steak on the grill.  It was beefy, juicy, smoke-kissed perfection.  But I… read more

1,000 Cookbook Indexed

April 10, 2010 by
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Today we added our 1,000th indexed book - that is almost quarter of a million recipes now indexed.  Since we added two books at the same time, I couldn't decide which was the 1,000th since they seemed equally deserving. So we proclaim both Well Preserved by Eugenia Bone and Tuscan Cookbook  by Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer as our 1,000th book.  Fittingly, both Eugenia… read more

Oven Thermometers

April 4, 2010 by
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As a cookbook reviewer, I sometimes have to measure where it would usually be perfectly fine to guess.  I don't always like having to measure 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon, but I do it...I've got 5 sizes of measuring cups, a couple of instant-read thermometers, and a scale that gets regular use.  But the tool that makes me hands-down-flat craziest is… read more

Jamie Oliver’s petition to improve children’s eating habits

April 1, 2010 by
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Jamie Oliver has launched an online petition to improve the eating habits and lifetime health of America's children.  This ties in with his new TV show Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution which is currently showing on ABC.  Jamie hopes to present the petition to Barack & Michelle Obama at the end of the series. You can see how many votes your state has generated - if you live… read more

EYB now has a Facebook page

March 29, 2010 by
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We now have a fan page on Facebook where you can get site updates from us, see the latest blog postings, add your own comments and share EYB with your friends.  Hope to see you there! read more

James Beard Book Award nominations announced

March 26, 2010 by
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The nominations for the prestigious James Beard Cookbook Awards were announced today.  They can be viewed on our JB Awards nominations page.  We will be attending the awards in New York on May 2nd which is going to be exciting.  We have also created a page listing all the IACP Award nominations which includes the Eat Your Books Award. read more

Changes to Recipe Types

March 25, 2010 by
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We are doing a major overhaul of the Recipe types as we have found over time that we have needed to add and refine categories.  There will be a interim period while we re-categorize the thousands of recipes already entered for each altered category so please bear with us if you cannot find everything you expect in a category.  The big one… read more

Susie’s Breads

March 22, 2010 by
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People have strong feelings about that ancient skill, the baking of bread. There are those who avoid it like the plague because yeast is smelly and inscrutable, kneading is messy, and who has time to wait for a 3-hour rise? Then there are those who embrace bread with such fervor that they dedicate a whole fridge to their pet sourdough… read more

Gender studies in the kitchen.

March 14, 2010 by
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Today, something funny came in the mail, and it set me thinking. 100 Recipes Every Woman Should Know, from the editors of Glamour Magazine (who else!?), is a blithely feminine romp.  The recipes have titles like "Wake Up and Make Up Sausage Biscuits" (for the morning after an argument) and "Get Over Him Berry Parfait," not to mention the subtitle's… read more

EYB sponsoring IACP Award

March 4, 2010 by
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The IACP Award nominations have been announced - it's a great selection of cookbooks and you can view them at the IACP website.  We are very excited that we are the sponsor in the General category - named The Eat Your Books Award - and we will be at the IACP Conference in April to present the award.  The nominated authors… read more

Rose Gray of The River Cafe has died

February 28, 2010 by
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I am so sad to hear that Rose Gray has died of cancer at the age of 71.  In my expense-account days in the TV industry in London, I would eat often at the River Cafe.  I can remember the first time I went there - it was so novel to have an Italian restaurant that was modern, classy and the… read more

3,000 Joy of Cooking Recipes Added

February 24, 2010 by
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Those Joy of Cooking books really are monsters to index - they have 12 times more recipes than the average cookbook.  We have just added our second one, the 2006 75th Anniversary edition.  At almost 3,000 recipes it took months to index - we kept having to give the indexer (Martha) breaks on other gentler books so she didn't crash and… read more

Welcome to Cooking Club of America members

February 21, 2010 by
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Welcome to all the new members who have joined up following the article about EYB in the Cooking Club of America Enewsletter.  We hope you enjoy your experience at EYB - please be aware that we have just recently launched and we are constantly improving the website.  If there are any new features you would like to see, please email us at info@eatyourbooks.com or post… read more

Slow cookers

February 14, 2010 by
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OK, I came late to the game when it comes to slow cookers.  As a person who's home and in the kitchen most of the time anyway, I didn't need a device that could do the cooking by itself for hours and hours.  I was the slow cooker, you know? Until last Wednesday, that is. I got the slow cooker for an assignment reviewing… read more

900th Indexed Cookbook

February 12, 2010 by
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We added our 900th indexed cookbook - Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques which brings the total number of indexed recipes on EYB to almost 215,000. We have a lot of new features we are planning to add to EYB in coming months - one of our priorities is a form to allow members to index their own cookbooks if they wish. read more

Ruth Reichl on what cookbooks mean to her

February 9, 2010 by
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Ruth Reichl didn't like Adam Gopnik's article in The New Yorker and on her blog she explains how her approach to cooking differs. I'm definitely in Ruth's camp - cooking because you love to do it and because you love feeding other people good things to eat. Adam's constant striving for perfection, and disappointment that each recipe never quite takes him there, doesn't connect… read more

EYB will be on 4FM Radio on Sunday am

February 6, 2010 by
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I will be doing a live interview Sunday morning on 4FM Radio in Ireland, around 9:30am on Sunday Breakfast with Michael Comyn.  That is 4:30am here on the USA east coast - I hope I can talk sensibly at that hour! read more

A new improved Eat Your Books

February 4, 2010 by
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We have a new server!! Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by the changeover whilst the site was down, but hopefully, you'll think it was worth it. I won't go into the technical detail, but we have also made some significant changes to our code that will allow us to improve the usability of the site and add the features… read more
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