A big milestone and a new feature

August 26, 2016 by
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50,000 Online Recipes from Cookbooks! We passed a huge milestone this month! As I hope you are aware, we link to cookbook and magazine recipes reproduced online if they have been reproduced with the publisher's permission. And this month we reached 50,000 online recipes from cookbooks. The cookbooks indexed by EYB contain an average of 193 recipes, so this is like… read more

New responsive site design

April 23, 2016 by
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  When you logged into EYB today, you probably noticed that the site looks a bit different. This is doubly so if you were using your mobile phone or tablet to access the site. At long last, our responsive design is up and running, with benefits for all users, but especially those using EYB on mobile platforms. The biggest change… read more

Best selling cookbooks of 2015

January 28, 2016 by
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Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2015.  Now we asked them for their top sellers.  We thought it would be interesting to compare the lists from specialist stores in the USA to that for all US sales from the publishing industry data company, Nielsen.  They are very… read more

The favorite cookbooks of 2015

December 22, 2015 by
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For the seventh year running we have searched the world for best cookbook lists.  And for the fourth time, Ottolenghi has the most loved cookbook in the world - Nopi. This time his co-author is Ramael Scully, the chef at Nopi.   Check out our Best of the Best page for all the other top choices including charts from the… read more

Buy a gift certificate and win a free lifetime membership

November 24, 2015 by
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You know how useful you find Eat Your Books? How about sharing that benefit with all your friends and family who love to cook? Gift certificates are available for one, two and three year memberships. And every gift certificate you buy between now and Dec 31 will enter you into a drawing to win one free lifetime EYB membership -… read more

Our first price rise in 6 years

June 7, 2015 by
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Eat Your Books launched in August 2009 - here was our first ever blog post - with 550 indexed cookbooks.  Since then the site has grown enormously - more than 5,600 cookbooks are now indexed plus we added magazines (2,300 are indexed) and online content.  The recipe database is now nearly one and a quarter million recipes, with more than… read more

Melissa Clark complete recipe index

April 29, 2015 by
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We're delighted to report another complete author index. This time around it's Melissa Clark, who has been charming readers for years with cookbooks and her columns at The New York Times. She joins her NYT colleague Mark Bittman who also has a complete recipe index. While Clark's index is not quite as large as Bittman's, she has a sizeable tally… read more

Top selling cookbooks of 2014 around the world

January 28, 2015 by
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Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2014.  Now we asked them for their top sellers.  We thought it would be interesting to compare the lists from specialist stores in the USA to that for all US sales from the publishing industry data company, Nielsen.  They are very… read more

The best cookbooks of 2014 by the experts

December 21, 2014 by
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Who knows cookbooks better than the owners of specialist cookbook stores? They stock and sell thousands of cookbooks and because their stores are focused on food and drink books, they are true experts.  They read the books, cook from them and then share their knowledge with their customers.  When shopping for cookbook gifts this holiday season, think about supporting your… read more

Buy 1 EYB Gift Voucher and Get 1 Free

November 18, 2014 by
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Our Gift to You - Limited time offer only - expires Dec 18th We want to make your holiday shopping as easy as possible - and what could be simpler than one click on the link below? For that you will get two gift certificates for the price of one. So not only is your shopping easier but also a… read more

Cooking together for extra pleasure

September 23, 2014 by
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If you enjoyed the book Julie and Julia, or if you just like exploring the recipes of a particular author, be sure to check out our latest addition to the EYB Forum. It's called "Cooking together with an author" and follows the success of a topic titled "Cooking together with Diana Henry." Members can now add their favorite author (or blog!) and… read more

Complete Diana Henry recipe index

September 20, 2014 by
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Attention Diana Henry fans - we're excited to announce that we've just completed indexing all of her recipes, 2,851 in total! This includes all of Diana's cookbooks from Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons to A Change of Appetite, every recipe in her Sunday Telegraph columns, every magazine recipe, and recipes found on her website. The Sunday Telegraph recipes are indexed as… read more

A new place to find joy

September 12, 2014 by
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If you named the most influential cookbooks of all time, Joy of Cooking would appear near the top of the list. By itself, the 1974 edition is the fifth most popular book in the EYB Library. If you add together the number of 1974 and 1997 editions on member Bookshelves, the total far surpasses that of the number one cookbook… read more

World Calendar of Cookbook Events

August 28, 2014 by
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  There are many cookbook-related events going on around the world - author book signings, talks, cooking classes, and more.  But we often never hear about them - or even more frustratingly, we hear about them too late.  Eat Your Books to the rescue!  We have created a calendar of every cookbook event we have heard about.  We will be… read more

Over 150,000 online recipes at your fingertips

August 27, 2014 by
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We are excited to announce that over 150,000 indexed recipes now have online links--that's over 15% of the 1,100,000+ recipes indexed on Eat Your Books! All of these recipes are from trusted, top-notch sources including the best magazines and blogs, plus online recipes from cookbooks so you can "test drive" a cookbook before you buy it! Of that 150,000 online recipes, there… read more

5,000 cookbooks and counting

July 23, 2014 by
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Drum roll, please: we are thrilled to announce that we have indexed book number 5,000 in the EYB Library! So which book is lucky number 5,000? It's Monday Morning Cooking Club: The Feast Goes On, an Australian book that Yotam Ottolenghi calls "a remarkable excursion into the realm of comfort food." EYB indexers have been diligently working to reach this… read more

Practice cookbook voyeurism

May 24, 2014 by
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When you are at the grocery store, do you ever peek into the cart next to yours to see what others are purchasing? Have you gone to a realtor's open house in your neighborhood just to have a look inside? Then you probably wonder what other EYB members' cookbook collections look like. Lucky for you we've made it easy for… read more

The best way to organize your life (well, at least your recipes)

May 20, 2014 by
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Eat Your Books has already saved members from spending countless hours scouring the internet for recipes. Thanks to the carefully curated selection of online recipes in the EYB Library, which is unlike any other online recipe resource, you don't have to flounder around in a sea of dodgy websites hoping for the best. Now the great services offered with free… read more

The easiest way to add your books

April 29, 2014 by
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We know that one of the biggest obstacles for new members is the time and effort they think will be needed to add their books and create their Bookshelf.  It really doesn't take very long to do but if you own more than a few books, it's worth considering a barcode scanner.  This reads the barcode on the back of… read more

Improve your cooking skills with EYB’s new feature

February 27, 2014 by
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We've created a new feature that gives you access to 594 (and counting!) online how-to demonstrations, including how to carve a duck, how to make homemade ricotta, how to make marshmallow fluff, and how to prepare and cook artichokes. Select tutorials from cookbooks are indexed as well.  And even better, 127 of the tutorials have  videos. To browse all of the how-to links, go… read more

One million recipes indexed on EYB!

January 10, 2014 by
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One million recipes - and every one added by a human being not a bot.  Because EYB is a database, not a word search, every recipe has to be entered manually.  For cookbooks and magazines, all details are typed in by an indexer.  I wouldn't like to calculate how many keystrokes a million recipes required but let's just say it's… read more

Get up to date with EYB on Social Media

December 18, 2013 by
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Social media is a great way to keep up with the goings on here at Eat Your Books. We have a few different options to help you keep informed about giveaways, announcements, new blog posts, newly indexed books, sample recipes from cookbooks, and other interesting recipes we've come across:   If you follow us on Twitter @EatYourBooks, you can see… read more

Buy 1 EYB Gift Voucher get 1 Free!

November 11, 2013 by
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Limited time only We think that you deserve a break this holiday season so the team here at Eat Your Books have been whipping up a little treat for you!   Buy your gift certificate before November 30th and you'll be in the drawing to win Nathan Myhrvold's fabulous new book, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine. Valued at $120, your… read more

EYB survey: Read our results

October 30, 2013 by
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In a recent survey we asked you to tell us what you thought of Eat Your Books and how you used it - we were delighted with the number that responded. It's your feedback and support that will help us continue to improve the site. We wanted to share with you some of the responses. How you heard about EYB:… read more

Woo-hoo! We now have over 100,000 online recipes

May 10, 2013 by
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Today, we're going to take a break in our regularly scheduled blog to pat ourselves on the back. Just this week, we've reached a monumental milestone - we now have over 100,000 online recipes!  Of those, almost 10,000 were added by our members  using the Bookmarklet feature (thank you, thank you); over 10,000 are from cookbooks; and 33,000 are from… read more
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