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 we still get them.
 
So we now have 172,801 recipes indexed.  Don't forget if we haven't yet indexed your favorite cookbook you can request it by clicking the RI button next to the book title.

Every Rosh Hashanah I try a different honey cake recipe hoping that this one will not be dry. Although I'm not Jewish (is my second name Kelly a giveaway there?), my husband is, so we get to celebrate (and cook for) double the amount of festivals every year. Finally yesterday, after 17 years of experiments, I found a moist honey cake, a recipe by Helen Nash. It must be the cup of strong tea that makes the difference. I'm not pessimistic by nature, but after 17 tries I was being realistic so I did a back-up dessert of Honey-nut Brownies from Dorie Greenspan's Baking: From My Home to Yours. These were good though not fantastic - not enough chocolate according to my 14-year old daughter.

While on the subject of Dorie Greenspan and Baking: From My Home to Yours, (my most favorite baking book) I came across a fun blog, Tuesdays with Dorie. Around 275 bakers, all with foodblogs, cook the same recipe from Baking every week and post it on their blogs on Tuesday. Great way to get expert bakers' impressions of a recipe and see all their different photos of their own interpretations.

We've added another 400 or so cookbooks and now have almost 16,000 in the EYB Library.  In addition we are adding newly indexed books all the time and now have more than 700.  Don't forget you can request any of your favorites that haven't yet been indexed - just click on the RI button.

Sad to hear today that Sheila Lukins has died of brain cancer.  I've loved the Silver Palate books for years and own a few of her other books.  We have ten of her books here at EYB and most are indexed.

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