DIY Cooking
People get ambitious in the summer. Vistas of leisure time seem to beckon, although all too often they turn out to be illusions. Some of us decide to build decks. Some of us buy packs of vegetable starts, which we…
What's New on EYB
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,…
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…
New registration and payment system
Today is a significant day for Eat Your Books - the beta sign has finally come off. It's taken longer than we thought - but that's the nature of software development. At the beginning of the year, we didn't realise we…
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…
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…
13 ways of looking at a cherry tomato...
...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…
100,000 cookbooks on EYB members' Bookshelves
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…
EYB Library now 79,000 books
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…
New community page features
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…