Ruth Reichl on what cookbooks mean to her

February 9, 2010 by
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Ruth Reichl didn't like Adam Gopnik's article in The New Yorker and on her blog she explains how her approach to cooking differs. I'm definitely in Ruth's camp - cooking because you love to do it and because you love feeding other people good things to eat. Adam's constant striving for perfection, and disappointment that each recipe never quite takes him there, doesn't connect… read more

EYB will be on 4FM Radio on Sunday am

February 6, 2010 by
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I will be doing a live interview Sunday morning on 4FM Radio in Ireland, around 9:30am on Sunday Breakfast with Michael Comyn.  That is 4:30am here on the USA east coast - I hope I can talk sensibly at that hour! read more

Tasting Table picks EYB as Handiest Website

January 30, 2010 by
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Eat Your Books is the Handiest Website of the Month according to Tasting Table. Very cool! And today we have a write-up in The Irish Times which has resulted in a large number of new Irish members. Welcome to you all but I would warn you that initially the site is aimed at the USA so we don't have a lot of British… read more

EYB on TV

January 20, 2010 by
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For those of you in the Boston area, I will be demoing EYB on WBZ-TV tomorrow for the Consumer Reports feature on the 5pm news. We will put up a link on the Press page when we get it. After today it could be broadcast on any CBS affiliate around the USA. I feel more nervous now waiting to see it than… read more

Faster searching coming soon

January 18, 2010 by
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The huge recent increase in EYB members is wonderful but we have found that searches have slowed down and in some cases been hanging with no results.  This is obviously not a good situation for a recipe search engine, so some major re-coding is going on and a new version of the site will go up next week that will… read more

Great reviews equals lots of new members!

January 14, 2010 by
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Some great new reviews of EYB today on Tasting Table and thekitchn.com has resulted in our biggest number of new members in one day. Fantastic and exhausting! read more

200,000 recipes now indexed!

January 11, 2010 by
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With the latest indexed books added to EYB, we now have more than 200,000 recipes indexed. Although obviously we don't carry the actual recipes, this is quite impressive when you consider we only launched a few months ago. Epicurious.com which launched 14 years ago, has 142,000 recipes, and AllRecipes, which started up 12 years ago, has 40,000 recipes. We are… read more

More publicity for EYB

January 7, 2010 by
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And the publicity keeps coming which is fantastic. The first couple of months after we launched was difficult as we felt like we were almost invisible but now we can't keep up with all the great PR we are getting. We are in the process of putting up a press page so you can see everything. Publishers Weekly had a wonderful… read more

10,000 Books on EYB Bookshelves

December 30, 2009 by
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We have had so many new members sign up since the Boston Globe article last week.  The number of cookbooks on EYB members' Bookshelves is now more than 10,000 and growing every day.  You will see a lot of new indexed books being added too as we have had hundreds of index requests in the last week. read more

Boston Globe article about EYB

December 23, 2009 by
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There is a great article today about Eat Your Books in the Boston Globe Food Section. read more

800th indexed cookbook added to EYB

December 14, 2009 by
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We have just added our 800th indexed book to EYB. It was How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking by Michael Psilakis which has been getting great reviews and appearing in some of the Best Cookbooks of 2009 lists. read more

Best cookbooks of the decade?

December 11, 2009 by
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In addition to their best of the year cookbook list, Eat Me Daily has produced a Best Cookbooks of the Decade list. I'm not sure that I agree with all their choices - too many restaurant chefs in my opinion. They are all indexed on EYB though, with the exception of The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (that $250 price tag is putting… read more

NPR stories worth catching

December 7, 2009 by
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Susie was featured on NPR yesterday talking about her selection of the best cookbooks of 2009 - you can hear her discussion with Lianne Hansen on Weekend Edition. Another interesting piece on NPR recently was a discussion between Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker and Monica Bhide, author of Modern Spice, with Rebecca Roberts on Talk of the Nation. This is a fascinating analysis,… read more

Best cookbook of 2009 Lists

December 5, 2009 by
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It's that time of year when all the Best Cookbooks of the Year lists are popping up - ours is up on the Community page now. Our own Susie's list for NPR has been attracting lots of attention. Here are some other best of lists you might like to take a look at. It's interesting how little overlap there is… read more

Changes to EYB

November 24, 2009 by
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We've been listening to the suggestions you have made since we launched the site and you will see lots of improvements over the next few months.  Initially, we have increased the font size and revamped the Community and My EYB pages.  There are lots more enhancements to come - but please keep the feedback coming. read more

Anyone interested in indexing books?

November 6, 2009 by
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We are getting so many index requests from members that we need to take on more data inputters (a paid job).  If you, or anyone you know, might be interested get them to contact us at [email protected].  They should have good knowledge of recipes and food terms and be careful about spelling and accuracy. read more

21 New Ingredients in Under Pressure

October 23, 2009 by
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I just added Thomas Keller's Under Pressure as an indexed book and was surprised that I had to add another 21 new ingredients, even with 5,936 already in our database.  How many of you have these in your store-cupboard (or even in your grocery store)? Duck tongues, mustard flowers, transglutaminase RM, calcium gluconate, sea urchin tongues, green apple mustard? I'd… read more

First EYB Press

October 21, 2009 by
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Very exciting - we had our first piece of press today in the Vermont newspaper Seven Days.   The article is available on their online edition. There was also a terrific article about EYB on Suite 101 which explains really well how the site helps cookbook lovers. read more

Heaviest and best cookbooks

October 14, 2009 by
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Funny piece today on Eat Me Daily about the heaviest cookbooks out there and their cost per pound. As expected, The Big Fat Duck Cookbook was the heaviest and most expensive per pound at $13.57. Take a look and see how the other monster books compare. Another cookbook list you may not have seen was the Village Voice's Top 10… read more

Now indexed 700 books – that’s 172,801 recipes!

September 30, 2009 by
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I've just imported our 700th indexed book - The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook by Patricia Tanumihardja.  This is a fascinating book - though I was surprised that I had to add 30 new ingredients to our list for this book.  You would think that with more than 5,800 ingredients now in our list that there would be few new ones but… read more

No more dry honey cakes

September 19, 2009 by
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Every Rosh Hashanah I try a different honey cake recipe hoping that this one will not be dry. Although I'm not Jewish (is my second name Kelly a giveaway there?), my husband is, so we get to celebrate (and cook for) double the amount of festivals every year. Finally yesterday, after 17 years of experiments, I found a moist honey… read more

Loads of new cookbooks

September 13, 2009 by
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We've added another 400 or so cookbooks and now have almost 16,000 in the EYB Library. In addition, we are adding newly indexed books all the time and now have more than 700. Don't forget you can request any of your favorites that haven't yet been indexed - just click on the RI button. read more

Welcome to Library Thing members!

September 6, 2009 by
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I just posted about Eat Your Books today on the Cookbookers group at one of my favorite websites, Library Thing. For those of you who don't know LT, it is a great place to catalog your books and engage in a friendly book-loving community. If you are finding EYB for the first time because of that post, welcome to this… read more

Sheila Lukins

September 1, 2009 by
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Sad to hear today that Sheila Lukins has died of brain cancer.  I've loved the Silver Palate books for years and own a few of her other books.  We have ten of her books here at EYB and most are indexed.     To view Sheila's books Click Here   read more

Julie & Julia

August 12, 2009 by
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Saw 'Julie & Julia' last night and loved it.  Based on the books My Life in France by Julia Child and Julie & Julia by Julie Powell, this juxtapositions the two stories.  Julia is finding herself through French cooking (then relatively unknown in US home kitchens) and Julie is finding herself by cooking her way through Julia's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and then blogging about it.  I've… read more
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