New blog index: Ali Slagle’s 40 Ingredients Forever

August 25, 2025 by
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We have today added a new blog index, Ali Slagle's 40 Ingredients Forever. Ali Slagle is a Brooklyn-based recipe developer, the author of I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes, contributor to The New York Times, editor, food and prop stylist, and project manager. She cut her teeth on the editorial and creative teams at Food52… read more

Dianne Jacob talks cookbooks on CookShelf

August 16, 2025 by
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The latest installment in the CookShelf Substack features award-winning writer  Dianne Jacob. (In case you missed the announcement, Katie has launched a free Substack newsletter in connection with the forthcoming CookShelf app.) Dianne coaches people on how to write a winning cookbook proposal (where there is a 1-2 percent acceptance rate) and how to improve the quality and effectiveness of their writing. … read more

Thanks for everything Sydney

July 29, 2025 by
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For the last fifteen years, Sydney Chambers has managed all member indexing on Eat Your Books - assigning books, proofreading finished books and giving feedback to member indexers. She is now retiring and we want to thank her for her sterling service to the website. Her efforts have contributed to around a third of books indexed on the site being… read more

New CookShelf Substack, featuring Rose Levy Beranbaum as the first guest author!

July 24, 2025 by
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In connection with the upcoming launch of the CookShelf app – which is in the final stages of beta-testing – Katie is launching a free Substack newsletter. This will complement the EYB blog, featuring cookbook recommendations from authors and recipe writers, and providing ingredient-focused roundups and cook-throughs of select cookbook recipes. We hope that this will provide another layer of… read more

Search your local library cookbooks for recipes

April 29, 2025 by
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We have recently added a new feature allowing library patrons to search the collection of cookbooks on their local library's bookshelves. It works slightly differently to an individual membership, allowing access directly to the recipe search from a QR code or short URL that the library supplies to their patrons. The library patrons cannot make any changes to the library… read more

Over 170,000 Books in our EYB Library and hints to manually adding books

January 20, 2025 by
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We have recently achieved a significant milestone: our EYB Library now boasts over 170,000 listed books. Among these, almost 14,000 are indexed, while 410 are currently in the indexing process. Additionally, 945 books do not contain recipes. It is likely that there are many more books without recipes, and we have been diligently marking them as we discover them (let… read more

A New Chapter for Eat Your Books

September 27, 2024 by
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Dear Eat Your Books Community, We're excited to share some big news about the future of Eat Your Books. As we embark on this new chapter, we wanted to take a moment to share our thoughts with you directly. A Note from Jane Kelly, EYB Founder & CookShelf COO: When Fiona and I launched Eat Your Books back in 2009,… read more

Half a million indexed recipes have links to the full recipe

July 4, 2024 by
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It may seem the image is celebrating Independence Day in the USA. But no, it's fireworks for Eat Your Books today passing 500,000 Online Recipes, where one click takes you to the full recipe. 183,000 of these are from cookbooks; 146,000 are from magazines; 88.000 are from ckbk; and the balance are from blogs, newspaper columns and other online sites.… read more

New blogs indexed

May 10, 2024 by
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In February, Eat Your Books began adding vendor links for particular ingredients to our database. Now we have started indexing the recipes from those vendor sites. A selection of recipes from Diaspora Co. The following four sites have been indexed: Burlap & Barrel (263 recipes)VanillaPura (80 recipes)Diaspora Co. (202 recipes)Hayden Flour Mills (126 recipes) A selection of recipes from Hayden… read more

New filter tags for cookbook clubs

March 27, 2024 by
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Every month, Jenny gathers information from cookbook clubs around the world and publishes a summary. April's Great Big Cookbook Club Summary can be found here. Food52 reached out to us and asked if we could help them with providing a filter on our book listings to identify which books they have cooked or baked from since the beginning of their… read more

Upgrade of Bookmarks feature

February 21, 2024 by
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One of the most common requests from members has been to allow the addition of bookmarks to multiple recipes at once. I'm pleased to announce that feature has today gone live. At the top of your Bookshelf Recipes page you will see a new link Add multiple bookmarks. When you click that a check/tick box appears next to each recipe… read more

Help with buying ingredients

February 15, 2024 by
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We know it can be frustrating to come across unusual ingredients in a recipe and have no idea where to find them. With online shopping it is much easier now than it used to be - but how do you know that the supplier is reliable and the products are good quality? EYB to the rescue - we are adding… read more

EYB is now accessible and translatable

January 18, 2024 by
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We have added a very cool tool to EYB that improves the usability of the site for our members with disabilities. Click the new green symbol at bottom left of your screen and see all the options - specific accessibility profiles like blind, color blind, dyslexia or ADHD can be selected and the site will adjust accordingly. Or you can… read more

13,000 Books Indexed!

November 20, 2023 by
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Earlier this month we shared that Eat Your Books reached a milestone with 2,500,000 indexed recipes and now we are pleased to announce that over 13,000 books have been indexed. Our Library has a great mix of new releases, classic cookbooks and even Member Indexed non-English titles! In addition to these titles, we have connected the EYB database to ckbk’s library… read more

2,500,000 recipes indexed

November 9, 2023 by
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When we launched Eat Your Books in 2009 I couldn't have imagined we would grow the site into what it is today. We launched with 550 cookbooks indexed (about 92,000 recipes) and in the years since we have added almost 6,000 magazine issues and the indexed books total is almost at 13,000. Plus of course 470,000 online recipes. Whew! This… read more

Efforts to stop bot activity

October 5, 2023 by
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As regular visitors will know, we have been having site performance issues related to very high levels of search bot activity. The bots fire thousands of requests per second at our site which causes the server to get overloaded and grind to a slow crawl or even a halt for anyone else using it (our members). Our short-term solution was… read more

EYB and ckbk are linking up

May 11, 2023 by
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We are delighted to announce that we have connected the EYB database to ckbk's library of digital cookbooks. ckbk is a cookbook subscription site where you can access the full content of more than 700 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed here on EYB (and more will be indexed every week). Every book in the EYB Library that… read more

New blog index: RecipeTin Eats

March 22, 2023 by
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We have today added a new blog index, RecipeTin Eats. Nagi Maehashi is the voice, cook and photographer behind the Australian food blog with a devoted worldwide following. A former finance executive, Nagi started RecipeTin Eats in 2014 to share her passion for creating affordable everyday meals with the 'wow' factor and classic dishes of the world done right. Nagi and… read more

Increase in membership fees

January 27, 2023 by
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The EYB membership fees will be increasing on February 1st to $40 per year or $5 per month. This is our first increase since 2015 and the site has developed enormously since then. In case you need a reminder of just a few things that are available on the site: 2.3 million recipes are now indexed, from 12,200+ cookbooks, 5.300+… read more

New blog index: Ottolenghi

January 5, 2023 by
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We have today added a new blog index, Ottolenghi.co.uk. Ottolenghi's style of food is rooted in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean traditions, but also draws in diverse influences and ingredients from around the world. Check out the 362 recipes indexed from the blog. And because we have also indexed all of Ottolenghi's cookbooks plus his recipes in magazines and newspapers, we have… read more

New Feature: EYBD Preview indexes

October 26, 2022 by
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In March 2018, EYB launched our EYBDigital Preview and EYBDigital Recipe feature. An EYBD Preview is where a selection of full pages are available with many including a sampling of recipes. Please see this article for a full explanation of EYBD Previews and Recipes. To date we have 1,445 EYBD Previews in our Library. Of those Previews 890 are attached… read more

NEW FEATURE: Report Broken Links

August 3, 2022 by
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Our EYB Library has 375,325 online recipes at this time. Those online recipes were all active when the links were created. However, websites revamp their site thus changing recipe locations or blogs close down so some links have become inactive or broken. We have added a "Report Broken Link" icon - next to the "Recipe Online" icon - so that… read more

NEW FEATURE: ‘No Recipes’ books

July 27, 2022 by
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We have had the Indexing status 'No Recipes' for some time but until now you could not use that as a filter. You now can! 'No Recipes' is one of the selections under the Only Show filters on the right (or under the Menu on a phone) when you are in Library Books or My Bookshelf Books. 'No Recipes' books… read more

New blog index: Green Kitchen Stories

July 15, 2022 by
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We have today added a new blog index, Green Kitchen Stories by David Frankiel & Luise Vindahl. Their recipes are for healthy and simple vegetarian food with natural ingredients, whole grains, good fats, fruit and vegetables. David and Luise live in Stockholm with their adorable family. In addition to the wonderful recipes, gorgeously photographed by David, there are posts about… read more

NEW FEATURE: Adding a book to the EYB Library

May 30, 2022 by
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Until now the only way for members to add a missing book to the EYB Library was to import the ISBN number using Import Books, which is available under the My Bookshelf tab (for Premium members only). We then import the book data from Amazon. However this system did not allow for books without an ISBN number or books not… read more
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