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

Saveur Blog Award winners announced

June 7, 2015 by
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On Friday, Saveur magazine announced the winners of its sixth annual blog awards. I must admit that I hadn't heard of many of the blogs, but now I have even more sites on my "need to visit" list. The awards, which celebrate celebrate the best in food, drink, and design blogging, were broken down by category, with an editor's choice, a reader's… read more

Memories influence your choice of food

June 6, 2015 by
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Scientists are continually on a quest to understand how our minds work. Recent research delved into determining how our memories can influence the food we choose, and was reported in the scientific journal Neuron. Everyone has memories that revolve around food, and we would expect that we choose food that we liked based on our pleasant recollection. That is not… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

June 5, 2015 by
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Do you find other people's comments on recipes helpful? Have you written your own recipe Notes? It's a great way to remind yourself how a dish turned out and share your experience with the EYB community. On each Recipe Details page you'll find a Notes tab. Adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to expand… read more

How good are lower sugar baking recipes?

June 5, 2015 by
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Alternative sweeteners and lower-sugar desserts are all the rage, as evidenced by two popular new cookbooks - Baking with Less Sugar by Joanne Chang of Flour Bakery fame and Real Sweet by blogger Shauna Sever. Each aims to create delicious desserts using alternative sweeteners, unrefined sugar and/or less sugar. If you have been wondering just how well these alternative sweeteners… read more

Beat the heat (and save time) with no bake desserts

June 4, 2015 by
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Recently we looked at cool stuff to drink when the temperature rises, and today we turn to desserts. Often you'd like to have a little something sweet to end a meal, take to a potluck or picnic, or share with friends along with iced tea on a warm afternoon. The last thing you want to do, however, is turn on the… read more

100 is the magic number

June 3, 2015 by
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Browse the EYB Library long enough and you're certain to stumble across the number 100 in a cookbook title. There are over 3,000 centuplicate cookbooks in the Library, and this year there are a few big names who are featuring 100 in their cookbooks. Emeril Lagasse has a new book due out this October, in which he distills his storied… read more

The world’s top 50 restaurants

June 2, 2015 by
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Yesterday, San Pellegrino unveiled its ranking of the top 50 restaurants in the world. The big question was whether Noma would appear at the top of the list for a fifth year, but it fell to El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain, which was named the best restaurant for 2015. Noma - the best restaurant for four out… read more

Bring teatime in Paris to your home

June 1, 2015 by
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Jill Colonna fell in love with a Frenchman she met in her native Scotland and they moved to Paris together over 20 years ago.  She couldn't speak much French and had never needed to entertain before.  Soon realising that her "banana surprise" with custard from a packet mix was not going to hack it with her new French dinner guests,… read more

Cookbook giveaway – Teatime in Paris

June 1, 2015 by
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Born in Scotland, Jill Colonna moved to Paris with her husband over 20 years ago. She realized she not only needed to learn the language, but that her baking skills needed upgrading. Jill learned how to make macarons, which led to a cookbook (Mad About Macarons!). She has expanded to other French patisserie recipes in her second book, Teatime in… read more

Shandies are dandy

May 31, 2015 by
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When the mercury starts to rise, people begin their quest for a refreshing beverage to sip after participating in their favorite summertime activity. A shandy is the perfect drink to quench a heat-fueled thirst, but it's great almost any time. Shandies can be simple mixtures of beer paired with lemonade, soda, fruit juice, ginger beer, or another beverage, but they… read more

Banish bland potato salad

May 30, 2015 by
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Summer means having picnics, and having picnics means making potato salad. Sometimes that salad doesn't quite live up to expectations. Luckily Epicurious just took a look at common potato salad problems and how to fix them. The biggest complaint for potato salads is that they can be a bit bland. Epicurious recommends properly seasoning the potato cooking water - and… read more

Featured Cookbooks & Recipes

May 29, 2015 by
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At Eat Your Books we want to bring you the best recipes - our dedicated team searches out and finds online recipes excerpted from newly indexed cookbooks and magazines. New recipes from the best blogs are indexed daily and members index their favorite online recipes using the Bookmarklet all the time. Below you'll find this week's recommendations from the EYB team.… read more

Inside Ottolenghi’s test kitchen

May 29, 2015 by
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Yotam Ottolenghi's cookbooks are among the most popular books in the EYB Library. The recipes are vibrant, fresh, and visually stunning. If you've ever wondered what it takes to come up with these wonderful recipes, you can now satiate your curiosity, as NPR's The Salt gives you a backstage pass into the Ottolenghi test kitchen. You might think the kitchen… read more

André Soltner on the importance of mother sauces

May 27, 2015 by
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If you asked cooks today to name the five classic mother sauces most probably couldn't recite them. But chef André Soltner certainly can, and he thinks that knowing these sauces is vital to anyone cooking in a restaurant. The esteemed chef knows a thing or two about these sauces and plenty more. The long time chef of the highly regarded Lutèce in NYC,… read more

Highlights of the 2015 Ballymaloe LitFest

May 27, 2015 by
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For the second year running we spent a most glorious weekend at Ballymaloe (pronounced Bally-mal-loo), which hosted the third Kerrygold Cooking Literary Festival of Food & Wine (LitFest for short). The venue for the festival is split between the Ballymaloe House grounds and the nearby Ballymaloe Cookery School, which is helmed by Darina Allen and numerous members of the Allen family.… read more

May 2015 cookbook roundup

May 26, 2015 by
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Every month Jane and Fiona wade through hundreds of cookbooks, selecting and reviewing all the best new releases of U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand cookbooks. The only thing left for you to do is to add them to your Bookshelf. US The Broad Fork by Hugh Acheson: In The Broad Fork, James Beard Award winner Acheson narrates… read more

Celebrate National Wine Day with sangria

May 25, 2015 by
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Today is a national holiday in the US, but this year it also coincides with a "food holiday," National Wine Day (not to be confused with National Drink Wine Day). Many people are attending parades and memorial services today to honor those who have fallen while serving in the military, and in addition are celebrating the long weekend by gathering… read more

The guide to grilling guides

May 24, 2015 by
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This long weekend marks the unofficial start of summer in the U.S. The Memorial Day holiday also kicks off the grilling season, especially for those in more northern latitudes who eagerly anticipate the first firing of the grill. Although tradition dictates that steaks and hamburgers will make an appearance, more and more people are venturing beyond meat to grill fruit,… read more

Get “yellow fever” for saffron

May 23, 2015 by
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If you haven't cooked with saffron, the world's most expensive spice, you'll definitely want to after reading about the Ottolenghi saffron recipes featured in The Guardian. The name saffron comes from the Arabic word for thread, and the thin stigmas of the crocus flower do quite resemble thin crimson strands. Harvesting saffron is a painstaking process that has so far… read more

A big name returns with a new cookbook

May 22, 2015 by
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It's been over a decade since Anthony Bourdain has written a cookbook. His last was 2004's Les Halles Cookbook. But that's about to change as HarperCollins imprint Ecco has signed Bourdain for a new cookbook titled Appetites, currently slated for a release in fall 2016. The book will be coauthored with Laurie Woolever. According to the publisher, the book will distill… read more

Featured cookbooks & recipes

May 22, 2015 by
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Did you know adding online recipes to your EYB Bookshelf is a really great way to build your personal recipe collection? You can now do this even if you have a free membership! Try it out now and see how easy it is. Browse the recipes below, choose one that appeals, click on the link, and add it to your… read more

Avian flu causes worry about egg shortage

May 21, 2015 by
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An outbreak of the avian flu in the US Midwest has prompted concerns about an impending egg shortage. Large industrial customers are developing contingency plans. Makers of products like mayonnaise, ice cream, cookies, muffins, and cake m ixes are looking to egg alternatives as a possible solution. As of this Wednesday, the flu is forcing farmers to kill more than 33… read more

A sweet seed-saving success

May 20, 2015 by
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The farm-to-table movement has produced renewed interest in heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables. It's something that David Shields knows a lot about. Shields, a professor at the University of South Carolina, is author of Southern Provisions: The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine. His mission is to restore antebellum cultivars and foodways. About 10 years ago, as part of… read more

Sample two ‘classic recipes for modern people’

May 19, 2015 by
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Max Sussman is the chef de cuisine at Roberta's in Brooklyn. During his tenure at Roberta's, the restaurant has received 2 stars from the New York Times. Eli Sussman is a line cook at Mile End Deli in Brooklyn, which has been featured on several "best of" lists, including Time Out, GQ, and Village Voice. The brothers have joined forces again… read more
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