CookShelfThe list is now up at sister paper The Guardian's website. And the top 10 are: 1. The French Menu Cookbook by Richard Olney2. French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David3. The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden4. The…
The Guardian has today listed the first installment of the best 50 cookbooks of all time, as chosen by The Observer's Food Monthly. The top 10 will be published in this Sunday's Observer. See how many you have, and how…
We will have to take the site down this morning, hopefully for not longer than 3 hours, for some essential upkeep of the site. It should be back up by 3pm EST. Once the new version of the site goes live in the next…
...well, maybe not quite that many (with apologies to Wallace Stevens). It takes forever, it seems, for the Sungold cherry tomatoes to ripen. We started them in March, shuttled them in and out of the house during the…
There are now more than 100,000 cookbooks on our members' Bookshelves. The number of members owning each book varies from 550 for Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One down to lots of books just owned by one…
Our own Susie Chang has just been awarded 3rd place in the biennial MFK Fisher Award for Excellence in Culinary Writing (administered by Les Dames d'Escoffier International). The story so honored was last year's Gather…
The import of books data from around the world is now complete, a total of nearly 79,000 cookbooks and books on food from the USA & Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. So you should now be able to add…
We have added some fun new features to Community - let us know what you think. We would love contributions from EYB members for some of them - Hot Find, Puzzler and Buzz from the Web are all places where your input…
We got back home today after two weeks on the road. In two weeks we visited San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston and New York. Had some wonderful experiences, climaxing Sunday night with the James Beard Awards in…
We just got back from the IACP Cookbook Awards where I presented the Eat Your Books Award. All the nominees were tremendous books - we were delighted to present it to Stephanie Alexander for Stephanie Alexander's…
We will be doing some essential maintenance on the website this morning which will require the site to be down for up to 5 hours from 10:30am (EST). Apologies if you need to use EYB at that time. Hopefully you will find…
We are soon planning to test the new EYB searches that we have been working away at recently. It will take about 30-40 minutes and you would do it from home on your own computer, on April 27 or 29. If you think you…
