Saw 'Julie & Julia' last night and loved it.  Based on the books My Life in France by Julia Child and Julie & Julia by Julie Powell, this juxtapositions the two stories.  Julia is finding herself through French cooking (then relatively unknown in US home kitchens) and Julie is finding herself by cooking her way through Julia's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and then blogging about it.  I've read reviews that didn't like the way the two stories fit together but I thought it worked well.  I've also read a lot of negative comments about Julie's "lack of seriousness" which I find odd.  How much more serious can you be about cooking than to cook your way through 524 French recipes in one year?  And is it wrong to then be funny about it?  Anyway I loved both books and the movie - am I not discriminating enough?
 
BTW - we have 16 books by and about Julia on EYB.

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) and the night before I found a new Malaysian recipe for Coconut milk chicken curry in Flatbreads and Flavors (searched on chicken breasts and lemongrass as ingredients).  Getting variety into my nightly cooking was one of the main personal reasons why I created EYB and it's definitely working for me.  Now I'm off to search for beef stir-fries for tonight's dinner.

I was amused when looking through The Foods of Vietnam by Nicole Routhier to find in the chapter titled Vegetarian dishes, recipes that contained ground pork, shrimp, bacon, oyster sauce and fish sauce.  There must be a completely different concept of what a vegetarian is.

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 find recipes when I couldn't remember which book they were in.  I reasoned that I was probably not the only keen cook out there with a shortage of time and a fading memory.  I convinced my sister Fiona to join me in the enterprise and Eat Your Books was born.

We've designed the site as we would like to use it but we would love to hear from you as to what you think works or doesn't and what new features you would like to add.  The 550 cookbooks we have indexed so far represent what we think keen cooks are most likely to own but we will be adding new books all the time based on your requests.  So if you don't find one of your favorites, please send us a request and we will probably add it to our indexing pile.

Get in touch and give us feedback.  I've regularly been using EatYourBooks.com for finding recipes while the site has been in development and it does everything I hoped it would.  But you may have different needs so please tell us and we'll do our best to make you as happy with the website as we are.