Featured Cookbooks with Over Thirty Recipes, Giveaways and EYBDigital Updates

Eat Your Books (EYB) is a website for people who love cookbooks and want to make better use of the great recipes from those books. With EYB, a member can create their own personal Bookshelf and quickly find recipes from their cookbooks, food magazines, food blogs, personal recipe clippings, and favorite online recipes. New cookbooks (as well as older titles) are indexed every week. For more information on what we do here, please see our Help pages.

Today let’s talk about searching for recipes on your bookshelf. For instance, a member wants to find a recipe for Coconut Cake in their cookbook collection.  The member goes to their Bookshelf, selects Recipes and types in the search “Coconut Cake”. You will note that the results shown below are recipes found in my own Bookshelf – depending on the books in your collection the results will vary. I sorted these results by “buzz” or popularity.

EYB is NOT a recipe site, so the recipes are not available, but members will be able to determine what books contain recipes for Coconut Cake and if there is an online version of the recipe approved by the publisher there will be a link to it. The top recipe is the Coconut, almond and blueberry cake from Sweet by Ottolenghi & Goh. Instead of searching through your cookbook collection manually, you can search your virtual Bookshelf to find the right recipe. 

When the member pulls up the recipe, they can see that only the major ingredients are listed for that recipe and what page the recipe can be found on in their copy of the book. You will note in the photo below that there are five photos for this cake as members share their photos to encourage others to try the recipe and also by sharing photos, notes and reviews, we build a sense of community. 

Lastly, please note in the photo below the tabs for Ingredients, Notes, Reviews. The notes and review tabs can be helpful to members who are making the recipe for the first time. Members share their suggestions, what worked and what didn’t, in these sections of the site.

Additional helpful links: How to add books to your bookshelf and  understanding and filtering your book search results.

In each weekly roundup we will bring you additional information on other features here at EYB. If you have any questions, please email us at info@eatyourbooks.com and we will be happy to help!

The team at Eat Your Books

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 Featured Online Recipe:

Rice noodle salad with steak from indexed blog What’s Gaby Cooking by Gaby Dalkin

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