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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 have them all on your EYB Bookshelf. 

Recipe BookmarketWe have just launched the EYB Bookmarket, which will help you organize and find online recipes. You'll find it on your Home page and it's a very simple process to install it on your Favorites Toolbar. Just drag and drop it! 

The Bookmarklet is on your Home page - this is just an image and won't work!

 

 

Recipe BookmarkletRecipe Bookmarket

Once installed you click on it every time you see a recipe that you'd like to add to your Bookshelf. An indexing form will pop up for you to complete. Once saved, the Recipe will be added to your Bookshelf and the EYB Library for other members to access

We bring across as much information as we can, including an image if possible. Every website has different formats, so this varies from one to another.

 

The more complete and accurate you are with your indexing the more useful it is to you and other members. For more information see How do I add a Recipe from a food website to my Bookshelf?

 

 

Jane & Fiona

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Quick EYB Facts
  • 42,645 Authors
  • 96,854 Cookbooks
  • 530 Magazines
  • 21 Blogs
  • 562,588 Recipes indexed
  • 14,735 Ingredients to choose from!

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Shelf Life with Susie: Just for show...

When you have several hundred cookbooks (or even over a thousand, as I know some of you EYBers do!), it's hard to admit that some of your books aren't for actual cooking. But it's true, isn't it?  There's at least a half-dozen books on my shelf that are strictly for looking at.  I've never even contemplated attacking one of the recipes, which would be like assaulting a citadel with a peashooter.  I guess I'm talking about the books that would be coffee-table books, if I had a coffee table.

When I was growing up, my dad, a graphic designer, worked on a couple of the first glossy food books.  One was called "Glorious Food!" (1982), after the New York catering company its author ran.  Another was Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Italy (1984).  These were gorgeous productions, photo-filled and mouthwatering, but I only remember my stepmother cooking from them maybe once.  They were strictly for display, in other words, and you certainly wouldn't want to splatter the coated-stock interiors with tomato sauce.

These days, my favorite just-for-show books are also intensely visual, but they usually have some other kind ... keep reading

Author Stories

Monica Bhide looks at how family recipes change over time...
Matt Lee and Ted Lee
talk about their beloved grandmother...
Molly Stevens
on why recipes don't work...
J. M. Hirsch
on how cookbooks are inspiration...
Joan Nathan
reveals how she finds the wonderful stories in her books...
Bruce Palling looks at the life and food book collection of Alan Davidson...
Joe Yonan reveals how writing a cookbook for singles became more personal...
Karen Solomon talks about her love for the Jewish Home Cook Book...
Jeff Keys explains the life balance of a chef...
Tracey Zabar is interviewed by Susie about cookies...
T. Susan Chang (Susie) is interviewed about her new book...
Ron Suhanosky talks about the highs and lows of writing a cookbook...

Hot Find: Grilled peach salad from The Herbfarm Cookbook by Jerry Traunfeld

peachesA great suggestion from EYB member Laura:

Wow! The ultimate great summer recipe. It's hard to imagine that anything could be better than a fresh peach, but a grilled peach may be even better, as the cooking seems to really concentrate the sweetness of the peach. Combine that grilled peach with a salad of arugula and watercress dressed with a basil vinaigrette and you have a wonderful sweet and peppery summer treat.

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Puzzler: Blueberries & Scallops

Odd couples rarely found in nature... but just a click away on Eat Your Books!
Curious . . . ? Try them in Cold poached scallops from The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso & Sheila Lukins (which is battling it out with Mastering the Art of French Cooking for the #1 cookbook on EYB).

Toolbox: Egg Beater

Egg BeaterI don't know about you, but I love my egg beater. I use it every day. I love its Rube Goldbergesque, gears-in-plain-view construction. I love the way it eliminates every trace of white from a scrambled egg, so my son will eat his breakfast. I love the way it stands in for my mixer for little jobs, like a cupful of whipped cream for the raspberries.

I don't love the way it falls apart every couple of years, so I have to get a new one.

Recently Indexed Cookbooks

More than 25% of the US population live in single-person households and this seems to have been picked up recently with some new cookbooks for cooking for one and two.

Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One by Joe Yonan

103 recipes from the Food and Travel editor of The Washington Post, where he writes a monthly column, Cooking for One.

Cooking for Two 2011 by America's Test Kitchen

196 of the year's best recipes from America's Test Kitchen, cut down to size.

What We Eat When We Eat Alone by Deborah Madison

97 recipes in this book from 2009 that explores the joys and sorrows of eating solo and gives a glimpse into the lives of everyday people and their relationships with food.

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Cookbook Awards

IACP

Every year IACP and The James Beard Foundation select the books from the previous year that they consider to be the best in their category. Click the links below to see the full list of nominees and winners from this year's awards.

The nominees and winners for the 2011 IACP Awards »

The nominees and winners for the 2011 UK Guild of Food Writers Awards

The nominees and winners for the 2011 James Beard Awards »

The nominees and winners for the 2011 Gourmand World Awards »

The nominees and winners for the 2010 IACP Awards »

The nominees and winners for the 2010 James Beard Awards »

Our Best of the Best lists - compiling all the lists from around the world:

Top Cookbooks of 2011 »

Top Cookbooks of 2010 »

Top Cookbooks of 2009 »

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Recent News & Buzz from EYB & all around the Web...

Susie's best cookbook choices on NPR
Having read how Susie picks them, now find out what she picked.

The best baking cookbooks of the last 25 years
Cooking Light makes their picks - and not a low-cal or low-fat book among them.

Nigella on the Today Show
Nigella talks about food (of course) - last meals, sexy meals and holiday meals.

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YouTube
It is amazing what you can watch on YouTube - every subject you can think of is covered - and cookbooks are no exception. These are a few videos we've come across - if you know of any that you think other EYB cookbook lovers will enjoy, let us know.