Alan Davidson

Bruce Palling - Food columnist for the Wall Street Journal Europe looks at the life of the late Alan Davidson and recalls some memorable meetings with him.  Bruce has his own blog, Gastronenophile where you can read extended versions of his WSJ articles - including his 20+ course meal at Noma and an interview with Nathan Myhrvold at The Fat Duck.  Later this month (March 24), a library… read more

London eating

Although I now live on the opposite side of the world to my home city of London, I'm fortunate to get back often enough to still feel in touch.   I don't tend to keep up to date while I'm away, so sometimes I find a new trend has gripped the country since my previous visit, though I'm still hoping for… read more

A very special dinner

Every so often we get to do something that is so special we can't believe it's really happening.  I had that feeling this weekend when I had the privilege of attending a dinner cooked by two of the world's greatest chefs - Heston Blumenthal and Thomas Keller.  They had got together at a beautiful spot on the east coast of New Zealand at… read more

New registration and payment system

Today is a significant day for Eat Your Books - the beta sign has finally come off.  It's taken longer than we thought - but that's the nature of software development.  At the beginning of the year, we didn't realise we were going to do a complete rewrite of the site, but we did, and it's now the website that… read more

A new improved Eat Your Books

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

Technology or cookbooks in the kitchen?

An interesting article by Sarah Dickerman on Slate.com as to whether the iPhone could take over from the cookbook in the kitchen. She concludes not, though does see the advantage of a digital shopping list on your phone. We are intending to add an iPhone app, as well as apps for other smartphones, in the not too distant future. You will then… read more

Upcoming improvements on EYB

Thank you for all your feedback, we're so grateful to all those who take the time to write to us. We are still a beta website and there are areas of improvement to be made before we remove the beta from the logo. So keep it coming, we love getting it and it will help us improve our service to… read more
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