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Mobile version of Eat Your Books
June 30, 2012 by Fiona
A whole new look, a new blog and a new home page!
March 23, 2012 by Fiona
Add Recipes from any* food website to your Bookshelf!
January 18, 2012 by Fiona
More new features
November 19, 2011 by Fiona
As well as personal recipe indexing - we've added a few more features that we hope you'll enjoy. EYB has become a lot more colorful with the addition of images for your online recipes. If you're using the "online recipes" filter you'll see images for the recipes and when you're in the details page you can zoom out to a larger… read more
Add your personal recipes and clippings to your Bookshelf
November 17, 2011 by Fiona
Do you have stacks of recipe clippings that you've saved from magazines; been given by friends; printed out from the internet? They seemed so delicious at the time but, once they go into that big, black hole - called the 'clippings file/box/drawer' they seem to disappear once they're swallowed up by your filing system. Trying to recall what that recipe… read more
500,000 recipes indexed
October 28, 2011 by Fiona
500,000 recipes indexed - that's a lot of data inputting! Many people assume that this is an automated process - no, it's all done manually! It's the only way we can provide such precise and accurate recipe searches by ingredients and categories. No other recipe search engine does this! We have a wonderful team of indexers headed by Deborah who take on any challenge… read more
Cookbook Voyeurism!! Install the EYB Widget
August 22, 2011 by Fiona
Have you ever clicked on another member's username to see the list of books they own? It's the next best thing to standing in front of their bookcase. Now we've made it easier for you to browse 1,000s of other members' Bookshelves, and compare them with your own collection. We've made several improvements to the profile page and will continue… read more
2,000th book indexed
August 8, 2011 by Jane
We have just indexed our 2,000th cookbook and we are heading towards half a million recipes. With lots of magazines and blogs now being indexed too, the recipe index on Eat Your Books just keeps getting more and more useful. Don't forget you can add any of the online recipes to your Bookshelf - you don't have to own the… read more
First blog indexed
June 28, 2011 by Jane
We have now completed our first blog index - 1,099 recipes from the Simply Recipes blog by Elsie Bauer. You can add the blog and recipes to your Bookshelf - every recipe has a Recipe online link back to the Simply Recipes site. Another great feature on the blog recipes is that we can add the blogger's photos, which really enhances the… read more
Add blogs to your bookshelf
June 16, 2011 by Fiona
To make Eat Your Books even more useful we are adding blogs and food websites so you can now search ALL the recipes you want to use - whether they are in your cookbooks, in your magazines or on your favorite website. Over the next few months we'll be adding more blogs and websites and we'd love to hear which… read more
Magazine indexing
May 29, 2011 by Fiona
You may have noticed a proliferation of Cook's Illustrated and Bon Appetit magazines in the EYB Library's latest indexed list. Now that we have the ability to index magazines we have several indexers making their way through piles of old magazines. We've been running a survey on the Community page to find out from you which magazines you'd like indexed. The… read more
More new developments
May 20, 2011 by Jane
We put up a new release last night with another new feature. You can now view all comments for recipes under the Notes tab for a book. The total number of Notes (shown next to the speech bubble) includes all recipe notes. At the top of Notes we have also added back the EYB comments which got accidentally dropped in… read more
New developments on EYB
May 17, 2011 by Jane
Many of you will be pleased that we have just released some much-requested features: Indexing of Magazines - we will shortly have the entire Cooks Illustrated collection indexed. Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Cooking Lightand Delicious (UK) following soon. Where a magazine recipe is attributed to an author we list that author so you will be able to include all recipes from a favorite author in your recipe… read more
DIY Cooking
May 16, 2011 by Susie
People get ambitious in the summer. Vistas of leisure time seem to beckon, although all too often they turn out to be illusions. Some of us decide to build decks. Some of us buy packs of vegetable starts, which we convince ourselves will not succumb to pest attacks, July drought, and choking by weeds. And some of us take on… read more
400,000th recipe indexed
April 24, 2011 by Jane
We reached another milestone this week when we indexed our 400,000th recipe on EYB. I remember when we started EYB that the 100,000th recipes seemed a phenomenal amount. But then we had just 15,000 cookbooks in the Library and now we have launched EYB in the UK, we should reach 100,000 in the next few months. We now have (I… read more
And yet another Joy of Cooking gets indexed
March 31, 2011 by Jane
We've just indexed the 1997 Revised Edition of Joy of Cooking, which contains 2,547 recipes (thanks to our indexer Tracey who labored on this one for weeks). Since this is the third edition of the book we've indexed, the number of JofC recipes on EYB is 8,614 (2% of our total). The book (in 31 different editions) is on 1,635 Bookshelves. … read more
Our biggest cookbook so far
February 7, 2011 by Jane
It may not be the heaviest or even the largest cookbook we have indexed but Larousse Gastronomique is certainly the winner in terms of number of recipes. We have just added the index and there are 3,880 recipes. We had to add quite a few new ingredients for this book, notably a few songbirds such as lark, thrush and warbler (the French do… read more
New registration and payment system
December 8, 2010 by Fiona
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
Keep up to date with EYB
October 21, 2010 by Jane
We are now posting details of newly indexed books on our Twitter and Facebook feeds, so if you would like to know immediately what new books have been indexed, subscribe by clicking the links on the Community page. We will also be posting the links to Buzz features - news from the world of cookbooks. read more
Some features you may be missing
September 1, 2010 by Jane
In developing the new website, there were some features that we didn't have time to incorporate. They are however on our to-do list so you should see them improved and back on EYB soon. Friends - we are developing a much-improved social networking feature for EYB and Friends will be part of that. We have retained your Friends data so when we… read more
New version of EYB is here at last
August 30, 2010 by Jane
It's taken us longer than we would like but we are really happy with the end result - we hope you are too! We have a great team of developers who have incorporated your feedback since we launched. There are a lot more improvements we want to make over the next few months but the basic structure we have now… read more
13 ways of looking at a cherry tomato…
July 25, 2010 by Jane
...well, maybe not quite that many (with apologies to Wallace Stevens). It takes forever, it seems, for the Sungold cherry tomatoes to ripen. We started them in March, shuttled them in and out of the house during the frosty nights of April, gently forked them into the ground in May and watched for 8 weeks! as those tiny green marbles… read more
100,000 cookbooks on EYB members’ Bookshelves
July 23, 2010 by Jane
There are now more than 100,000 cookbooks on our members' Bookshelves. The number of members owning each book varies from 550 for Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One down to lots of books just owned by one member. You can check out who else owns your cookbooks by clicking Other Bookshelves under book details. Then you can look at all the… read more
EYB Library now 79,000 books
June 7, 2010 by Jane
The import of books data from around the world is now complete, a total of nearly 79,000 cookbooks and books on food from the USA & Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. So you should now be able to add most of your books to your Bookshelf. Any you find that we don't have, import the ISBNs using… read more
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