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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.
We 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!
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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- 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
A 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
I 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.
103 recipes from the Food and Travel editor of The Washington Post, where he writes a monthly column, Cooking for One.
196 of the year's best recipes from America's Test Kitchen, cut down to size.
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.
Cookbook Awards
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 »
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from our Members' Bookshelves
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Mary-Claire
"I love the way EYB has connected me to my cookbooks, and I love the way it's connected me to other cooks. In the last several months I've gotten advice from other EYB members on cookie cookbooks and Portuguese egg dishes, I've found several soulmates whose bookshelves I use as inspiration when I go on buying sprees, and I've brainstormed menu planning with a fellow EYB member as we pored over all the cookbooks in both our collections. People used to glance at my creaking shelves and ask, "Do you really cook from all of those?" Well, now I do."
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