Heston Blumenthal on the Olympics
Heston ruminates in the Financial Times on what the Olympics will mean for London. He also explains how he and Simon Hulstone, a young chef he mentored, have developed a new menu for British Airways, an Olympics…
Jane
Would you pay $225 for a cookbook with just one recipe?
Susie reviews in the Boston Globe a new book Notes from a Kitchen which documents the obsessions of 10 different chefs. There is just one recipe, for a cocktail, with 14 pages of instructions. The book costs $225 on…
Who writes the cookbooks you buy?
A couple of interesting articles today on cookbooks: The Boston Globe has a feature on whether cookbooks are moving from books to cook from to books to look at. Not at EYB we think! The New York Times has a fascinating…
Hear Susie talk about how her job as a cookbook reviewer impacts her kids
Fascinating radio piece by Susie on New England Public Radio on how her constant testing of cookbooks for her reviewing jobs at NPR Radio, The Boston Globe and of course EYB, mean that her children very rarely get…
T. Susan Chang
We've hijacked Susie's blog and we're interviewing her. Susie (T. Susan Chang) has been reviewing cookbooks for years for NPR and the Boston Globe - there aren't many people around who know as much about cookbooks as…
Cookbooks or apps what will it be?
There seems to be a lot of online debate in the last few days on what the future holds for cookbooks. The most exciting article for us, because EYB was the focus and it was carried around the globe, was the Associated…
2,000th book indexed
We have just indexed our 2,000th cookbook and we are heading towards half a million recipes. With lots of magazines and blogs now being indexed too, the recipe index on Eat Your Books just keeps getting more and more…
First blog indexed
We have now completed our first blog index - 1,099 recipes from the Simply Recipes blog by Elsie Bauer. You can add the blog and recipes to your Bookshelf - every recipe has a Recipe online link back to the Simply…
More new developments
We put up a new release last night with another new feature. You can now view all comments for recipes under the Notes tab for a book. The total number of Notes (shown next to the speech bubble) includes all recipe…
New developments on EYB
Many of you will be pleased that we have just released some much-requested features: Indexing of Magazines - we will shortly have the entire Cooks Illustrated collection indexed. Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Cooking Lightand…
400,000th recipe indexed
We reached another milestone this week when we indexed our 400,000th recipe on EYB. I remember when we started EYB that the 100,000th recipes seemed a phenomenal amount. But then we had just 15,000 cookbooks in the…
And yet another Joy of Cooking gets indexed
We've just indexed the 1997 Revised Edition of Joy of Cooking, which contains 2,547 recipes (thanks to our indexer Tracey who labored on this one for weeks). Since this is the third edition of the book we've indexed,…