Upcoming improvements on EYB

January 18, 2010 by
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Thank you for all your feedback, we're so grateful to all those who take the time to write to us. We are still a beta website and there are areas of improvement to be made before we remove the beta from the logo. So keep it coming, we love getting it and it will help us improve our service to… 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

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

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

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

Dinner Ninja

August 11, 2009 by
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Every once in a while, you suddenly realize that you're richer than you thought. Maybe you find a twenty in your sock drawer, or you remember that you have leftover paella in your fridge and no one else knows about it! I suddenly got that feeling the other day while using EYB for the first time. In this case, though,… read more

I’m loving this website!

August 7, 2009 by
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Well I know I am biased but I am really getting pleasure out of using EYB. The last two nights I have cooked completely new dinners as a result of using Recipe searches. Last night I did a really quick Salmon and Couscous recipe from Jamie's Dinners (searched on salmon as ingredient and rice, grains & polenta as ingredient type)… read more

Welcome to Eat Your Books

August 1, 2009 by
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After a lot of planning, EatYourBooks.com is finally live.  The idea for the website grew from a desire I had to make better use of my large collection of cookbooks.  I wanted to find new recipes quickly and to be able to search by several criteria such as main ingredients, ethnicity, type of dish, occasions, etc.  I also wanted to… read more
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