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What's New on EYB

One million recipes indexed on EYB!

January 10, 2014 · Jane

One million recipes - and every one added by a human being not a bot. Because EYB is a database, not a word search, every recipe has to be entered manually. For cookbooks and magazines, all details are typed in by an…

Book News

Best of the best cookbooks of 2013

December 19, 2013 · Jane

This is our 5th annual amalgamation of every cookbook list - this year we found more than 200. There wasn't a clear winner for the first time but Pok Pok by Andy Ricker (his first ever cookbook) just edged into the…

Cookbook Lovers

Me and my cookbooks - November 2013

November 21, 2013 · Jane

We're hearing from a lot of you that you're enjoying meeting some of our EYB members through our Me and my Cookbooks Monthly feature. We'd love to introduce as many as we can - If you'd like to be featured, just email…

Cookbook Lovers

EYB member wins world record!

November 10, 2013 · Jane

You may remember a post in our new feature My and My Cookbooks where Sue Jimenez, EYB member Manycookbooks shared details of her collection. She mentioned that she was applying to the Guinness Book of Records for the…

Cookbook Lovers

Me and my cookbooks

July 24, 2013 · Jane

At a time when the press relentlessly insists that no one is interested in cooking at home anymore, there is great joy in realizing that there are many others ( EYB members) who enjoy the creativity and pleasure of…

Antipasto

The creation of a new verb - To Ottoleng.

June 15, 2013 · Jane

We all have our favorite cookbooks and Tim Hayward in the Financial Times looks at how much our choices reflect current entertaining trends. Perhaps this particularly resonated with me since I lived in the UK for most…

Book News

The first ever cookbook rating app!

May 2, 2013 · Jane

You may have noticed Susie's mentions of her new cookbook rating app but I thought it deserved an entire post. Susie must thoroughly test more new cookbooks than anyone else around - as well as her posts for EYB, she…