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Any other Kiwis joined this ?

Probably quite a few including I think Annabell LAngbein! Welcome on board! Kirtsen the Kiwi, Gill, Tui ...... search the forum by New Zealand and you'll find some compatriots!

Not a kiwi, but offering a thought on finding other New Zealanders at EYB:  there are probably several cookbooks that are owned primarily by NZers, so it might be worthwhile to look over the list of members who have them on their shelves.  When you're on the main page for a cookbook, or looking at a title in a list on your own Bookshelf, click the little 'people' icon to see the list of members who have it.

Another clue, though sparser and more indirect, can come from checking the member Notes on the home page often: southern hemisphere cooks are making spring-y dishes when USians, Canadians, and Brits are moving into fall and winter fare.  The difference is most starkly evident at high summer/dead of winter.  Of course, that'll turn up Aussies, too, and I have no tips for sorting them out... <g>

Ellabee - not sure anyone can sort us Aussies out!! Our political arena must be a laughing stock right now!

siouxsie1 - Fiona, my co-founder of EYB (and sister) lives in Auckland and she knows many Kiwis who are members, incuding cookbook authors Annabel Langbein, Julie Biuso and Lauraine Jacobs.  The other way to check out other Kiwi members is to look at the Bookshelves of the Kiwi food magazines we index - Cuisine, Dish and Taste.

When looking at the NZ cookbooks, you can select New Zealand under Country - we have 1,143 cookbooks listed.

Kia Ora.

I've been a member for about a year.  I remember Annabel Langbein recommending this site and I put off joining for a while - foolish me!  This site makes my life so much easier. 

Hi Kirstin - I'm also a Kiwi and loving this site! I couldn't quite believe that such a cool website existed :)

Hi there. I'm a Kiwi member as you might guess from "Tui". I joined Eat Your Books in 2012 and have found the site a fantastic tool. Using it has sent me back to books I owned but had rather forgotten about, and it is just wonderful when you know you have lots of recipes for something like lemon tart but you want to find just the right version for a particular occasion. I have also worked my way through the scrapbooks of recipes I have kept for many years and entered about 500 personal recipes into the system and that has been really worthwhile. When I moved house at the beginning of this year  I decided it was time to shed a lot of old cookbooks that no longer seemed of interest and if they had not been indexed by Eat Your Books it was a lot easier to see them go. I also use the bookmarks - I tag recipes as "favourites" so I can just skim through those when I need a bit of inspiration again but want a recipe that I know works for me. When I am browsing through new books and magazines I add a bookmark "try this" to any recipe that looks interesting and I regularly look through just those for ideas. I have enthused about Eat Your Books to lots of foodie friends - it is infinitely preferable to be able to search your own library of books that you know are trustworthy for a recipe than to search the internet for something that may not work or, if it does, you may not find it again.

Hi there... Im a kiwi citizen.. I hail from UK but have lived in this beautiful country since  1995. I live in Chch. I love EYB... has really made my vast collection more manageable! 

Another kiwi here! Well, not officially (permanent resident, not yet a citizen) - I'm originally from the US. My cookbook collection is half American, half kiwi, with a sprinkling of others here and there. I love EYB!!