New developments on EYB

May 17, 2011 by
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Many of you will be pleased that we have just released some much-requested features: Indexing of Magazines - we will shortly have the entire Cooks Illustrated collection indexed.   Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Cooking Lightand Delicious (UK) following soon.  Where a magazine recipe is attributed to an author we list that author so you will be able to include all recipes from a favorite author in your recipe… read more

DIY Cooking

May 16, 2011 by
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People get ambitious in the summer.  Vistas of leisure time seem to beckon, although all too often they turn out to be illusions.  Some of us decide to build decks.  Some of us buy packs of vegetable starts, which we convince ourselves will not succumb to pest attacks, July drought, and choking by weeds.  And some of us take on… read more

400,000th recipe indexed

April 24, 2011 by
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We reached another milestone this week when we indexed our 400,000th recipe on EYB.  I remember when we started EYB that the 100,000th recipes seemed a phenomenal amount.  But then we had just 15,000 cookbooks in the Library and now we have launched EYB in the UK, we should reach 100,000 in the next few months.  We now have (I… read more

And yet another Joy of Cooking gets indexed

March 31, 2011 by
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We've just indexed the 1997 Revised Edition of Joy of Cooking, which contains 2,547 recipes (thanks to our indexer Tracey who labored on this one for weeks).  Since this is the third edition of the book we've indexed, the number of JofC recipes on EYB is 8,614 (2% of our total).  The book (in 31 different editions) is on 1,635 Bookshelves. … read more

Our biggest cookbook so far

February 7, 2011 by
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It may not be the heaviest or even the largest cookbook we have indexed but Larousse Gastronomique is certainly the winner in terms of number of recipes.  We have just added the index and there are 3,880 recipes.  We had to add quite a few new ingredients for this book, notably a few songbirds such as lark, thrush and warbler (the French do… read more

New registration and payment system

December 8, 2010 by
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Today is a significant day for Eat Your Books - the beta sign has finally come off.  It's taken longer than we thought - but that's the nature of software development.  At the beginning of the year, we didn't realise we were going to do a complete rewrite of the site, but we did, and it's now the website that… read more

Keep up to date with EYB

October 21, 2010 by
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We are now posting details of newly indexed books on our Twitter and Facebook feeds, so if you would like to know immediately what new books have been indexed, subscribe by clicking the links on the Community page.  We will also be posting the links to Buzz features - news from the world of cookbooks. read more

Some features you may be missing

September 1, 2010 by
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In developing the new website, there were some features that we didn't have time to incorporate.  They are however on our to-do list so you should see them improved and back on EYB soon. Friends - we are developing a much-improved social networking feature for EYB and Friends will be part of that.  We have retained your Friends data so when we… read more

New version of EYB is here at last

August 30, 2010 by
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It's taken us longer than we would like but we are really happy with the end result - we hope you are too!  We have a great team of developers who have incorporated your feedback since we launched.  There are a lot more improvements we want to make over the next few months but the basic structure we have now… read more

13 ways of looking at a cherry tomato…

July 25, 2010 by
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...well, maybe not quite that many (with apologies to Wallace Stevens).  It takes forever, it seems, for the Sungold cherry tomatoes to ripen.  We started them in March, shuttled them in and out of the house during the frosty nights of April, gently forked them into the ground in May and watched for 8 weeks! as those tiny green marbles… read more

100,000 cookbooks on EYB members’ Bookshelves

July 23, 2010 by
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There are now more than 100,000 cookbooks on our members' Bookshelves.  The number of members owning each book varies from 550 for Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One down to lots of books just owned by one member.  You can check out who else owns your cookbooks by clicking Other Bookshelves under book details.  Then you can look at all the… read more

EYB Library now 79,000 books

June 7, 2010 by
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The import of books data from around the world is now complete, a total of nearly 79,000 cookbooks and books on food from the USA & Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.  So you should now be able to add most of your books to your Bookshelf.  Any you find that we don't have, import the ISBNs using… read more

New community page features

May 13, 2010 by
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We have added some fun new features to Community - let us know what you think.  We would love contributions from EYB members for some of them - Hot Find, Puzzler and Buzz from the Web are all places where your input would be helpful.  So if you see something that you think would fit in one of those categories, please email us… read more

Site maintenance

April 17, 2010 by
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We will be doing some essential maintenance on the website this morning which will require the site to be down for up to 5 hours from 10:30am (EST).  Apologies if you need to use EYB at that time. Hopefully you will find the inconvenience worth it, as we will then be increasing the size of the EYB Library to over… read more

Need help from EYB members

April 14, 2010 by
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We are soon planning to test the new EYB searches that we have been working away at recently.  It will take about 30-40 minutes and you would do it from home on your own computer, on April 27 or 29.  If you think you might be interested please email me at [email protected] with some basic info - age, work/at-home/retired, # of cookbooks,… read more

1,000 Cookbook Indexed

April 10, 2010 by
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Today we added our 1,000th indexed book - that is almost quarter of a million recipes now indexed.  Since we added two books at the same time, I couldn't decide which was the 1,000th since they seemed equally deserving. So we proclaim both Well Preserved by Eugenia Bone and Tuscan Cookbook  by Stephanie Alexander and Maggie Beer as our 1,000th book.  Fittingly, both Eugenia… read more

EYB now has a Facebook page

March 29, 2010 by
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We now have a fan page on Facebook where you can get site updates from us, see the latest blog postings, add your own comments and share EYB with your friends.  Hope to see you there! read more

Changes to Recipe Types

March 25, 2010 by
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We are doing a major overhaul of the Recipe types as we have found over time that we have needed to add and refine categories.  There will be a interim period while we re-categorize the thousands of recipes already entered for each altered category so please bear with us if you cannot find everything you expect in a category.  The big one… read more

EYB sponsoring IACP Award

March 4, 2010 by
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The IACP Award nominations have been announced - it's a great selection of cookbooks and you can view them at the IACP website.  We are very excited that we are the sponsor in the General category - named The Eat Your Books Award - and we will be at the IACP Conference in April to present the award.  The nominated authors… read more

3,000 Joy of Cooking Recipes Added

February 24, 2010 by
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Those Joy of Cooking books really are monsters to index - they have 12 times more recipes than the average cookbook.  We have just added our second one, the 2006 75th Anniversary edition.  At almost 3,000 recipes it took months to index - we kept having to give the indexer (Martha) breaks on other gentler books so she didn't crash and… read more

Welcome to Cooking Club of America members

February 21, 2010 by
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Welcome to all the new members who have joined up following the article about EYB in the Cooking Club of America Enewsletter.  We hope you enjoy your experience at EYB - please be aware that we have just recently launched and we are constantly improving the website.  If there are any new features you would like to see, please email us at [email protected] or post… read more

900th Indexed Cookbook

February 12, 2010 by
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We added our 900th indexed cookbook - Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques which brings the total number of indexed recipes on EYB to almost 215,000. We have a lot of new features we are planning to add to EYB in coming months - one of our priorities is a form to allow members to index their own cookbooks if they wish. read more

A new improved Eat Your Books

February 4, 2010 by
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We have a new server!! Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by the changeover whilst the site was down, but hopefully, you'll think it was worth it. I won't go into the technical detail, but we have also made some significant changes to our code that will allow us to improve the usability of the site and add the features… 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
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