Joan Nathan
Joan Nathan talks about how she unearths the stories she includes her books. The question I am most frequently asked is, "how do you find all the people with their stories for your books?" And secondly, "how do you get…
Jane
Our biggest cookbook so far
It may not be the heaviest or even the largest cookbook we have indexed but Larousse Gastronomique is certainly the winner in terms of number of recipes. We have just added the index and there are 3,880 recipes. We had…
J M Hirsch
J M Hirsch on Cookbooks as Inspiration. My job makes it hard not to be a little jaded about cookbooks. As food editor for The Associated Press, I get sent virtually every cookbook published, sometimes several times…
What makes a cookbook terrific or terrible?
Susie has written a great article today in Publishers Weekly, titled "10 Things Every Cookbook Publisher Should Know". Susie receives stacks of new cookbooks every week and she road-tests and reviews many of them. So…
Susie's picks for best cookbooks of 2010
Our own Susie Chang was on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday this morning with some of her picks of the best cookbooks this year. The full list is on the NPR website and it's also worth listening to the on-air story. We will…
How many cookbooks do we need?
Josh Ozersky writes in the current issue of Time magazine that no-one needs more than about four cookbooks. What nonsense! Nancy Baggett, author of numerous wonderful cookbooks, has responded on her blog and asked for…
Keep up to date with EYB
We are now posting details of newly indexed books on our Twitter and Facebook feeds, so if you would like to know immediately what new books have been indexed, subscribe by clicking the links on the Community page. We…
Molly Stevens
Molly Stevens Why Recipes Don't Work... We caught up with the one and only Molly Stevens--author, co-author, or editor of many cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning All about Braising. She's also a…
Some features you may be missing
In developing the new website, there were some features that we didn't have time to incorporate. They are however on our to-do list so you should see them improved and back on EYB soon. Friends - we are developing a…
New version of EYB is here at last
It's taken us longer than we would like but we are really happy with the end result - we hope you are too! We have a great team of developers who have incorporated your feedback since we launched. There are a lot more…
Monica Bhide
Monica Bhide looks at how family recipes change over time... This morning I was making a lentil soup for my family, almost exactly the way my grandmother, in India, taught me decades ago. Or so I first thought. Her…
Matt and Ted Lee
Matt Lee and Ted Lee talk about their beloved grandmother... Elizabeth Maxwell, our late grandmother, had a profound influence on our cooking, though you'll have to banish any images of an aproned Southern Grandmother…