5,000 cookbooks and counting

July 23, 2014 by
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Drum roll, please: we are thrilled to announce that we have indexed book number 5,000 in the EYB Library! So which book is lucky number 5,000? It's Monday Morning Cooking Club: The Feast Goes On, an Australian book that Yotam Ottolenghi calls "a remarkable excursion into the realm of comfort food." EYB indexers have been diligently working to reach this… read more

Practice cookbook voyeurism

May 24, 2014 by
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When you are at the grocery store, do you ever peek into the cart next to yours to see what others are purchasing? Have you gone to a realtor's open house in your neighborhood just to have a look inside? Then you probably wonder what other EYB members' cookbook collections look like. Lucky for you we've made it easy for… read more

The best way to organize your life (well, at least your recipes)

May 20, 2014 by
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Eat Your Books has already saved members from spending countless hours scouring the internet for recipes. Thanks to the carefully curated selection of online recipes in the EYB Library, which is unlike any other online recipe resource, you don't have to flounder around in a sea of dodgy websites hoping for the best. Now the great services offered with free… read more

The easiest way to add your books

April 29, 2014 by
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We know that one of the biggest obstacles for new members is the time and effort they think will be needed to add their books and create their Bookshelf.  It really doesn't take very long to do but if you own more than a few books, it's worth considering a barcode scanner.  This reads the barcode on the back of… read more

Improve your cooking skills with EYB’s new feature

February 27, 2014 by
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We've created a new feature that gives you access to 594 (and counting!) online how-to demonstrations, including how to carve a duck, how to make homemade ricotta, how to make marshmallow fluff, and how to prepare and cook artichokes. Select tutorials from cookbooks are indexed as well.  And even better, 127 of the tutorials have  videos. To browse all of the how-to links, go… read more

One million recipes indexed on EYB!

January 10, 2014 by
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One million recipes - and every one added by a human being not a bot.  Because EYB is a database, not a word search, every recipe has to be entered manually.  For cookbooks and magazines, all details are typed in by an indexer.  I wouldn't like to calculate how many keystrokes a million recipes required but let's just say it's… read more

Get up to date with EYB on Social Media

December 18, 2013 by
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Social media is a great way to keep up with the goings on here at Eat Your Books. We have a few different options to help you keep informed about giveaways, announcements, new blog posts, newly indexed books, sample recipes from cookbooks, and other interesting recipes we've come across:   If you follow us on Twitter @EatYourBooks, you can see… read more

Buy 1 EYB Gift Voucher get 1 Free!

November 11, 2013 by
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Limited time only We think that you deserve a break this holiday season so the team here at Eat Your Books have been whipping up a little treat for you!   Buy your gift certificate before November 30th and you'll be in the drawing to win Nathan Myhrvold's fabulous new book, The Photography of Modernist Cuisine. Valued at $120, your… read more

EYB survey: Read our results

October 30, 2013 by
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In a recent survey we asked you to tell us what you thought of Eat Your Books and how you used it - we were delighted with the number that responded. It's your feedback and support that will help us continue to improve the site. We wanted to share with you some of the responses. How you heard about EYB:… read more

Woo-hoo! We now have over 100,000 online recipes

May 10, 2013 by
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Today, we're going to take a break in our regularly scheduled blog to pat ourselves on the back. Just this week, we've reached a monumental milestone - we now have over 100,000 online recipes!  Of those, almost 10,000 were added by our members  using the Bookmarklet feature (thank you, thank you); over 10,000 are from cookbooks; and 33,000 are from… read more

New look for Eat Your Books

March 10, 2013 by
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    We have a site redesign released today. We have dropped the left navigation - all links are now from the tabs across the top.  This has allowed us to increase the size of the images of book covers and recipes.  There is now also a images view for books and recipes - read more in our Help topic. You… read more

We’re one of the 50 best global food websites!

January 31, 2013 by
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Today we'd like to take a time out and brag just a little. We're especially proud that The Times (London) has included EYB as one of the top 50 best global food websites. If you have a Times subscription, you can view the entire article here, but if you don't, we wanted to let you read the nice things they had… read more

New Features on EYB

October 8, 2012 by
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At EYB we're always tweaking things to make members' experiences more enjoyable. We've just released a new version that includes a few changes: Improved pagination - search results are now shown in pages - a feature that many members have requested. Increase speed when displaying search results. To achieve this we have removed 'search as you type'. You now have… read more

Mobile version of Eat Your Books

June 30, 2012 by
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  We are delighted to announce our new mobile phone version. It's so simple to use - next time you access Eat Your Books on your phone, the mobile version will automatically load in a readable format. The mobile version makes it easier to access your book and recipe search results when you're out and about. We will continue to… read more

A whole new look, a new blog and a new home page!

March 23, 2012 by
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You will have noticed a new look to Eat Your Books when you signed in today.  We have done a bit of a reorg and we hope you like it.   Your Home page will now feed you the latest news on books, recipes, authors and what's happening in the food world.  The latest blog items will feature on your… read more

Add Recipes from any* food website to your Bookshelf!

January 18, 2012 by
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Few people source their recipes from just one place. We're spoilt for choice these days with great cookbooks, enticing magazines, those wonderful recipes friends pass on to us, and who hasn't seen a recipe on a website that they'd love to cook one day. Keeping track of all your recipes from all these sources is now possible - you can… read more

More new features

November 19, 2011 by
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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