Upcoming improvements on EYB
Thank you for all your feedback, we're so grateful to all those who take the time to write to us. We are still a beta website and there are areas of improvement to be made before we remove the beta from the logo. So…
What's New on EYB
Faster searching coming soon
The huge recent increase in EYB members is wonderful but we have found that searches have slowed down and in some cases been hanging with no results. This is obviously not a good situation for a recipe search engine, so…
Great reviews equals lots of new members!
Some great new reviews of EYB today on Tasting Table and thekitchn.com has resulted in our biggest number of new members in one day. Fantastic and exhausting!
200,000 recipes now indexed!
With the latest indexed books added to EYB, we now have more than 200,000 recipes indexed. Although obviously we don't carry the actual recipes, this is quite impressive when you consider we only launched a few months…
More publicity for EYB
And the publicity keeps coming which is fantastic. The first couple of months after we launched was difficult as we felt like we were almost invisible but now we can't keep up with all the great PR we are getting. We…
10,000 Books on EYB Bookshelves
We have had so many new members sign up since the Boston Globe article last week. The number of cookbooks on EYB members' Bookshelves is now more than 10,000 and growing every day. You will see a lot of new indexed…
Boston Globe article about EYB
There is a great article today about Eat Your Books in the Boston Globe Food Section.
800th indexed cookbook added to EYB
We have just added our 800th indexed book to EYB. It was How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking by Michael Psilakis which has been getting great reviews and appearing in some of the Best Cookbooks of 2009 lists.
Changes to EYB
We've been listening to the suggestions you have made since we launched the site and you will see lots of improvements over the next few months. Initially, we have increased the font size and revamped the Community and…
Anyone interested in indexing books?
We are getting so many index requests from members that we need to take on more data inputters (a paid job). If you, or anyone you know, might be interested get them to contact us at info@eatyourbooks.com. They should…
21 New Ingredients in Under Pressure
I just added Thomas Keller's Under Pressure as an indexed book and was surprised that I had to add another 21 new ingredients, even with 5,936 already in our database. How many of you have these in your store-cupboard…
First EYB Press
Very exciting - we had our first piece of press today in the Vermont newspaper Seven Days. The article is available on their online edition. There was also a terrific article about EYB on Suite 101 which explains really…