This week: The Book Depository closing; Kitchen Lingo Culinary Books; recipes and previews

The Book Depository has announced that they will be closing down the site with the last day to place orders being 26th April 2023. They will continue to deliver your purchases and provide support for any order issues until 23 June 2023. While we encourage our Members to frequent local booksellers whenever possible, The Book Depository was a great resource – at least to me – for ordering an international book at a reasonable price.

For those outside the UK who have the urge to order international books and Amazon UK is not your preferred choice, I suggest Waterstones. Each season, I place an order at Waterstones for UK titles and am only charged one international shipping fee for the entire order, not by book. The only negative when I do this is that sometimes I forget which books I order and end up with duplicates. That is my fault being a cookbook junkie. Often you may order a signed copy of a title from Waterstones for a bit more – scroll down to the middle of the page to see “Signed and Special Editions”.

A new bookstore devoted to cookbooks has opened in Long Beach, California – Kitchen Lingo Culinary Books. Owned by Matt Miller, a former restaurateur, food writer and Long Beach Post contributor, Miller opened the doors to Kitchen Lingo for a soft opening on March 11. Kitchen Lingo offers what he describes as “seasoned” rather than “used” cookbooks. These books – and their highlighted recipes and tagged pages – are time capsules, he says.

The last few weeks 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

Sweet potatoes, avocado, and roasted pumpkin seed oil salad from Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession (page 236) by Jess Damuck submitted by member mllamas

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Featured Online Recipe

Biscoff cheesecake filled Easter eggs from Tin and Thyme: Tales from a Cornish Kitchen by Choclette

Add Tin and Thyme to your Bookshelf for an additional 972 recipes.


Featured EYBD Preview Recipe

A La Louisiane from The Maison Premiere Almanac: Cocktails, Oysters, Absinthe, and Other Essential Nutrients for the Sensualist, Aesthete, and Flaneur: A Cocktail Recipe Book by Joshua Boissy, Krystof Zizka and Jordan Mackay – Pub date April 25th, 2023. Check out the other cocktails in the full preview.

We currently have 6,357 EYBDigital Recipes indexed. All can be added to your Bookshelf.


EYBDigital Previews

Recently, we uploaded our 1,569th 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.


Cookbook Giveaways
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  • Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Bao & Dim Sum: 60 Easy Bun and Dumpling Recipes by Orathay Souksisavanh. Contest expires April 15th, 2023.
  • Enter our US/UK/AU/NZ giveaway to win one of three copies of Hoppers: The Cookbook: Recipes, Memories and Inspiration from Sri Lankan Homes, Streets and Beyond by Karan Gokani. Contest expires April 15th, 2023.
  • Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of two copies of Spice Kitchen: Healthy Latin and Caribbean Cuisine by Ariel Fox. Contest expires April 15th, 2023.

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

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2 Comments

  • Indio32  on  April 7, 2023

    The Book Depository is owned by Amazon and has been for years. Corporations love buying small independents keeping the name to give the illusion of a mom & pop shop. Waterstones is another classic example…. they own both Hatchards & Foyles yet don’t go out of their way to let people know.

  • SheilaS  on  April 7, 2023

    Yes, the consolidation is sad. Waterstones also owns Blackwell’s, a shop that I frequently order UK cookbooks from as their prices generally include shipping to the US.

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