Site maintenance
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…
What's New on EYB
Need help from EYB members
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…
1,000 Cookbook Indexed
Today we added our 1,000th indexed book - that is almost quarter of a million recipes now indexed. Since we added two books at the same time, I couldn't decide which was the 1,000th since they seemed equally deserving.…
EYB now has a Facebook page
We now have a fan page on Facebook where you can get site updates from us, see the latest blog postings, add your own comments and share EYB with your friends. Hope to see you there!
Changes to Recipe Types
We are doing a major overhaul of the Recipe types as we have found over time that we have needed to add and refine categories. There will be a interim period while we re-categorize the thousands of recipes already…
EYB sponsoring IACP Award
The IACP Award nominations have been announced - it's a great selection of cookbooks and you can view them at the IACP website. We are very excited that we are the sponsor in the General category - named The Eat Your…
3,000 Joy of Cooking Recipes Added
Those Joy of Cooking books really are monsters to index - they have 12 times more recipes than the average cookbook. We have just added our second one, the 2006 75th Anniversary edition. At almost 3,000 recipes it took…
Welcome to Cooking Club of America members
Welcome to all the new members who have joined up following the article about EYB in the Cooking Club of America Enewsletter. We hope you enjoy your experience at EYB - please be aware that we have just recently…
900th Indexed Cookbook
We added our 900th indexed cookbook - Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques which brings the total number of indexed recipes on EYB to almost 215,000. We have a lot of new features we are planning to add to EYB in coming…
A new improved Eat Your Books
We have a new server!! Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by the changeover whilst the site was down, but hopefully, you'll think it was worth it. I won't go into the technical detail, but we have also made some…
Tasting Table picks EYB as Handiest Website
Eat Your Books is the Handiest Website of the Month according to Tasting Table. Very cool! And today we have a write-up in The Irish Times which has resulted in a large number of new Irish members. Welcome to you all…
EYB on TV
For those of you in the Boston area, I will be demoing EYB on WBZ-TV tomorrow for the Consumer Reports feature on the 5pm news. We will put up a link on the Press page when we get it. After today it could be broadcast…