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Shake off menu blues by dusting off your cookbooks.  Member service Eat Your Books (eatyourbooks.com) lets you search its database of 100,000 titles.  Make shopping lists and search by on-hand ingredient (in way less time that it'd take to check 14 different indexes for "chicken").

By Reemski/ June 20, 2010

Recently, Zoe from Progressive Dinner Party tweeted about Eat Your Books, a nifty service that lists recipes within cookbooks and sticks them online so you can search your recipes.  Ok, so think about this: it lists the recipes from your cookbooks online so you can search them. Just the week before I saw Zoe’s tweet I’d been thinking that this very concept would be so useful. At work when trying to figure out what’s for dinner, knowing that you have specific ingredients to use up, or like me in this instance, looking for a recipe for a specific dish and wanting to find the variations. This service quickly opened up my cookbooks for me in a way that was not possible before Read More »

By Cheryl Sternman Rule / June 10, 2010

Perhaps, at times, I can be a touch melodramatic, but I truly believe that what I am about to tell you is going to make your cooking life easier, and better. 

Imagine a website that acts as a magical little cookbook fairy.  You spend a little upfront time telling it what cookbooks you own, by uploading the titles into a database.  Then the website builds you this digital library of your book titles.  And what happens is, over time, these little cookbook fairies and their wee digital fairyettes go through zillions of cookbooks, including yours, and they catalog the recipe titles from the indexes of all these books. Then they create this little searchable wonderland just for you. Read More »

By Michael Natkin/ May 10, 2010

I wanted to let you know about a service I just learned about. EatYourBooks.com has a very clever idea. You have a shelf full of dozens or hundreds of cookbooks, right? But it is a pain in the butt to find all the eggplant recipes in them. So you use the web instead and end up with a bunch of dubious recipes.  Read More »

By Andrea / March 10, 2010

Also, you guys, I have to tell you something. So there's this new site, it's called Eat Your Books and it is Bomb. Seriously. It's a project that's pretty well underway to catalog the recipes out of practically every cookbook In The World and make them all searchable. So you know how easy it is to search for recipes in the Web (that's probably how you got here, isn't it? Isn't it?). Well now you can do it in your own cookbooks.  Read More »

By Andrea Rappaport / February 21, 2010

Ever since The Julie/Julia Project, the blogosphere seems infiltrated by people who have committed to cooking every single recipe in a particular cookbook and writing about it. What Julie Powell did with Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, is now being done with Fergus Henderson’s The Whole Beast, Grant Achatz’s Alinea and Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc At Home, to name a few.

The majority of us are not getting nearly as much use out of our cookbooks Read More »

February 17, 2010

So many recipes, so little time—especially if you have to spend hours rifling through your cookbook collection to find the perfect one.
Your saving grace? Eat Your Books  Read More »

By Marie-Claire Digby / January 30, 2010

Do you ever find yourself Googling a recipe because you can’t remember which book you saw it in? Eatyourbooks.com is a new website that allows you to create an indexed virtual library, using the books you already own. Find your books in the Eat Your Books online library of more than 16,000 titles and create a personalised catalogue that can be searched by categories including author, book title, recipe title, ingredient and cuisine type. Read More »

January 27, 2010

The scene: Sunday morning, around 8am. It was your morning to get up with your son, so you’ve been awake since about 6. He is, however, taking his customary early morning nap. Your spouse is asleep, too.

There is exactly one hour during the entire week that you have completely to yourself, and this is it. So you’re using it to plan out the meals for the coming week. (You do that, right?) 
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January 22, 2010

Last night, on the local news, I saw a piece about an intriguing new website called EatYourBooks.com. Too many of these so-called “news” pieces are about the same-old, same-old, stuff like fda approved diet pills. This is definitely “news I can use”.

This is not just another online recipe search engine. EatYourBooks.com is designed for people who have a lot of cookbooks (raises hand), but like the convenience of an online search (raises hand again). Read More »

January 21, 2010

Also from Twitter, a fun new site called Eat Your Books for people who love cookbooks and need help navigating their collection. (Sounds familiar.) Eat Your Books is a subscription site where you sign up to access their list of indexed cookbooks so you can search for a recipe on the site, and then go right to that page in the cookbook in your own library. It's an ingenious idea, and at $25.00 a year, it could be a real timesaver for people (like me) who have a lot of cookbooks. Read More »

Paula Ebben / January 21, 2010

As you try to get dinner ready tonight, many of you will hear that common refrain: "Not that again!" Finding new recipes isn't always easy, but one Wayland entrepreneur wants to make it less stressful for cooks to find new ideas.
Locating the right recipe is never a problem for Jane Kelly. Not only does she have hundreds of cookbooks to provide inspiration, but she's figured out a way to use them more easily.She's now sharing her secret with cooks all over to world on her new web site, www.eatyourbooks.com.

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January 20, 2010

You know how you see something that you've been dreaming of doing forever, but somebody else had the vision or the guts or the time or the whatever to actually go ahead and do it? Grrrr. Well, that's the way I feel about a new website called Eat Your Books.  Read More »

January 19, 2010

Warning: braggadocio ahead: I have organized my cookbooks. All [I'm not telling the number] of them. This is one of three cabinet/shelf sections just off my kitchen and I know exactly which cookbook is in every one of them. Far more important, I can locate recipes in most of them with just the click of a few computer keys.
It’s a miracle — a miracle wrought by a saintly new website called Eat Your Books. Read More »

Posted by Janice / January 19, 2010

If the web wins out over traditional cookbooks because of convenience and search capabilities, then newly-launched Eat Your Books should level the playing field. This subscription-based site ($25 a year; $50 for a lifetime) has a proprietary cookbook index of 16,000 titles and counting. Once you identify the titles in your collection, you can search for recipes in your own virtual cookbooks through the Eat Your Books index.

It’s time to dust off those cookbooks and let this hybrid technology breathe some new life into them. Read More »

January 18, 2010

Do you ever get frustrated when looking for a recipe in a cookbook but can’t ever find it? Or you think that a particular recipe is in a particular cookbook but end up being wrong? Or do you completely live on the internet and find that you haven’t even opened up one of the many cookbooks lying on your shelf? Well if you are the techsavvy person I think you may be then boy do I have a treat for you, what if it was possible for you to be able to see all of your favorite cookbooks online, just like a virtual bookshelf, where all the cookbooks were searchable and cross-referenced by ingredient and keywords.

That could be pretty cool… Right? Read More »

January 15, 2010

It’s no secret that I’m addicted to cookbooks. I have zero desire to go cold turkey or even curb the habit. Cookbooks bring me joy, much more so even than cooking. They’re inspirational and hold promise and satiety. So when I received an alert about Eat Your Books, a new site offering users the ability to catalogue their cookbook collections, making it ridiculously easy to plan menus and search all the recipes on your shelves at once, I clicked at the chance.  Read More »

January 15, 2010

A tip from one wannabe chef to you: if I weren't saving money for my wedding and/or I had a job that paid, I would buy the lifetime membership to Eat Your Books. It is a website that allows you to electronically store and access all of the cookbooks in your kitchen's library. Once you've entered the cookbook titles that you own, it allows you to sort and search the recipes in all of those books. It also has a way to create a week's worth of meals and the grocery list for those meals. Brilliant! Read More »

January 15, 2010

It’s always a pleasant surprise when you come across something that, prior to the moment of discovery, you never even knew you needed. Eat Your Books is a website that allows you to search the indexes of your printed cookbook collection. With a database of over 16,000 cookbooks and counting, you create your bookshelf by adding cookbooks that you own. If the cookbook is one of the many that are indexed by Eat Your Books, you add it to your database. I’ve just started populating my bookshelf and, so far, I’ve run across only a handful of my books that aren’t in their system. Read More »

January 14, 2010

Online recipe databases--and the game-changing tools they provide for finding dishes in an instant--have given old-fashioned cookbooks a serious run for their money. But there's good news for die-hard cookbook collectors: A new website is bringing the immediacy (and searchability) of the web to your physical bookshelf. Read More »

By Faith Durand / January 14, 2010

Overall, this is an amazing service to cooks — especially cooks who own a lot of cookbooks. There are treasures in those books that aren't replicated online, and we think that this indexing service can help us get a lot more out of our own books. Read More »

January 14, 2010

Ever wished you could search through the cookbooks on your shelf the same way you can scan the web for recipes? Newly launched website EatYourBooks.com provides a service to help you do just that. Read More »

January 11, 2010

I have a new favorite time-wasting website! Well, okay, my exact words were “wow! Someone’s finally done something useful with the internet!” Because, seriously, this might be the most useful website I’ve ever seen. It’s called Eat Your Books Read More »

Weekend Post / January 09, 2010

If the Web is going to wipe out books, no genre has more to fear than the cookbook. Why would anyone need to own the Joy of Cooking when there's allrecipes.com? To bolster the case for the printed word, Publishers Weekly reports, a suite of new sites aim to make your personal cookbook library just as useful as the Internet. "Eat Your Books is based on the idea that it's easier to search the Internet for recipes than your own cookbooks, so it searches your cookbooks for you," Read More »

beetlebug / January 03, 2010

I read about this website in my local paper (the Boston Globe) and have been playing with it for the last few days. It's a great and easy to use website on finding recipes from all your cookbooks. There is a free 30 day trial and a limited lifetime membership for $50. I don't have nearly as many cookbooks as most HC hounds. I use about 25 of them regularly but do spend way too much time going through them, looking for recipes using certain ingredients. Since I have a summer, winter and meat CSA, I spend a lot of time backtracking through cookbooks. This site is a huge time saver. Read More »

By Greg Morabito / January 04, 2010

While 2009 saw a few cookbooks by big chefs performing very well - note Ad Hoc at Home and of course, the Triple D Cookbook -- the rise in popularity of recipe sites like Epicurious and Cookstr does not bode well for the already beleaguered publishing industry. A new website, EatYourBooks, might help renew home chefs' interest in cookbooks by basically allowing them to use the site as an Epicurious-style search engine for the home bookshelf. Read More »

By Lynn Andriani / January 04, 2010

As cookbooks come up against increasing competition from online recipe repositories, Web sites have sprung up attempting to reinvigorate the medium. There’s Cookstr’s database of cookbook content, Cookbooker’s social network for people to rate and review cookbooks, and now, Eat Your Books, a site that purports to make the cookbooks you already own more useful to you. Because there’s nothing worse than having a shelf full of cookbooks but no way of knowing instantly whether or not they contain a recipe for beef stew. Read More »

By Lisa Zwirn, Globe Correspondent / December 23, 2009

If you’re like most people, you probably make the same recipes every week because you’re too busy to skim through your cookbooks for ideas. That scenario is what inspired the authors of a new website, Eat Your Books (www.eatyourbooks.com), an online subscription service that allows you to search the indexes of hundreds of popular cookbooks. Those books may be volumes you already own, where you’ll find new recipes and revisit old favorites. The idea is that you list the books you have on the site so when you do a search, you’re looking through your own library. Read More »

By Suzanne Podhaizer / October 21, 2009

Sometimes those who own the most cookbooks use them the least — because they’re daunted by all those pages of possibilities. It was a problem part-time Wilmington resident Jane Kelly faced every time she wanted to whip up a stew or bake a cake. “I’ve got a lot of cookbooks, about 700, and lots of other food reference books as well,” she says. “I never had the time to look through and find recipes.” Read More »

By Lindsay McSweeney / October 17, 2009

Cookbook collectors need to index the recipes & ingredients in their books to maximize value, but rarely have the time. This unique website has already done the work. Read More »