Over 5,000 video recipes now indexed

  A growing category of recipes available on blogs and websites is the video recipe. Sometimes they take the form of a mini-episode of a cooking show; other times they are more focused on specific techniques or methods. A few are made as much for kitsch and fun (I'm looking at you, Metal Kitchen) as they are for serious cooking. … read more

Over 250,000 online recipes indexed

  We are excited to announce that Eat Your Books has now passed 250,000 online recipe links! The number is mind-boggling - over a quarter of a million recipes, from the best websites, blogs, and food writers on the planet, are only a click away. Every EYB Member, whether he or she has a free membership or a Premium subscription,… read more

Another milestone in the books

  Thanks to the hard work of both our professional and Member indexers, we have achieved another milestone at Eat Your Books - over 1.5 million indexed recipes! When we break down that impressive figure, we find over 1.2 million recipes from cookbooks; over 151,000 magazine recipes; and nearly 250,000 online recipes, including about 4,600 video recipes. Over 400,000 recipes… read more

New Bookmarks feature

You will notice when you look at your Bookshelf Recipes tab that there is now a chef's hat icon* before every recipe title. This is a new Bookmark feature that will show you at a glance on your recipe search results whether you have cooked a recipe (green), want to cook a recipe (orange) or have not chosen either (gray) -… read more

Celebrating another milestone

  We are pleased to announce that we have reached 7,000 indexed books in the EYB Library! Combined, the number of recipes inside these books exceeds 1.2 million - a mind-boggling number. To save you from doing the math, that is an average of 175 recipes per book. Some weighty tomes have more than 1,000 recipes.  Among these large volumes,… read more

Tips for better search results

The number of recipes in the EYB Library is impressive and continues to grow. The only thing better than having such a fantastic repository of recipes is the ability to find just the one you are looking for. To that end, we are providing a brief tutorial on different ways to search for recipes in the Library. Remember, you can… read more

Buy a gift certificate and win a free lifetime membership

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

The amazing achievements of our indexers

As I'm sure you will all agree, EYB is an amazing resource. One important reason it is remains so valuable to our Members is the stellar work of our expert indexers, located in Australia, New Zealand, England, Canada, and the United States. Their speed is impressive: one of our indexers (jumali on EYB) recently accomplished a marathon indexing of Mark… read more

Event at Bonnie Slotnick’s Cookbooks

Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks  is a treasured resource for cookbook lovers across the world. If you are looking for a hard-to-find book, Bonnie can help you locate it. Bonnie is located at 28 East Second St., New York, NY 10003 and her phone number is 212-989-8962 - if you have an inquiry for our favorite cookbook slueth.  Myself and a few of… read more

Add your own photos to recipes on your Bookshelf

Have you ever made a recipe on your Bookshelf that turned out so well that you thought your version should be the image that represents the dish? Or perhaps you have searched for a recipe and found one in a book with no images and you wished that you had a photo of the finished dish for reference. If either… read more

A big milestone and a new feature

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

  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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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

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
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