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April 27, 2018 · Christine

EYB wants to make your cooking life easier. Our main focus has always been indexing cookbooks and magazines so you can efficiently search your own collection instead of paging through individual indexes. We also aim to…

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A concise guide to amari

April 26, 2018 · Darcie

When you stumble across a cocktail recipe on the internet that features an unfamiliar ingredient, it can be next to impossible to determine whether or not you will like it. Since it can be cost-prohibitive to purchase…

New Cookbooks

April 2018 Cookbook Roundup

April 24, 2018 · Jenny

Does it seem to you, as it does to me, that the previous month's roundup was just published and here I am already rounding up another? Sometimes keeping up with it all feels like I'm herding cats. Publication dates…

Food Online

Eat Your Books Cookbook Club - April 2018

April 24, 2018 · Jenny

April has been a busy month with members enjoying all the dishes they have been making from Chinese Soul Food. The author, Hsiao-Ching Chou, has been popping in the group sharing tips and instructional videos such as a…

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A dessert desert on many menus

April 24, 2018 · Darcie

As someone with a voracious sweet tooth, I am often disappointed with the offerings on restaurant dessert menus - if one is even offered. Faced with increasing financial pressures, many restaurants are removing desserts…

Food Biz People

Around the world in 13 cookbook stores

April 23, 2018 · Darcie

"There's something magical about a cookbook shop..." So begins a recent post on indexed website Food52, and we could not agree more. We also concur with the sentiment that there are too few of these stores in existence,…

Food Biz People

Mary Berry's arrest story

April 20, 2018 · Darcie

Mary Berry's fans are legion. She is one of the main reasons The Great British Bake Off became such a phenomenal success, and her new program is likely to be an instant hit as well. There is one thing her admirers may…

Book News Recipes

A Table in Venice by Skye McAlpine

April 20, 2018 · Jenny

A Table in Venice: Recipes from My Home by Skye McAlpine is an enchanting book that ferries the reader away to the canals of Venice adorned with a canopy of swaying laundry and faded buildings of brick. The book was…