CookShelfI've just imported our 700th indexed book - The Asian Grandmothers Cookbook by Patricia Tanumihardja. This is a fascinating book - though I was surprised that I had to add 30 new ingredients to our list for this book.…
Every Rosh Hashanah I try a different honey cake recipe hoping that this one will not be dry. Although I'm not Jewish (is my second name Kelly a giveaway there?), my husband is, so we get to celebrate (and cook for)…
Every so often, people ask me "What's your favorite cookbook?" Usually, I wince. Then I make some kind of smart-alecky answer like, "Oh, that's like asking which one's your favorite child? or your favorite music?" These…
We've added another 400 or so cookbooks and now have almost 16,000 in the EYB Library. In addition, we are adding newly indexed books all the time and now have more than 700. Don't forget you can request any of your…
I just posted about Eat Your Books today on the Cookbookers group at one of my favorite websites, Library Thing. For those of you who don't know LT, it is a great place to catalog your books and engage in a friendly…
Sad to hear today that Sheila Lukins has died of brain cancer. I've loved the Silver Palate books for years and own a few of her other books. We have ten of her books here at EYB and most are indexed. To view Sheila's…
Saw 'Julie & Julia' last night and loved it. Based on the books My Life in France by Julia Child and Julie & Julia by Julie Powell, this juxtapositions the two stories. Julia is finding herself through French cooking…
Every once in a while, you suddenly realize that you're richer than you thought. Maybe you find a twenty in your sock drawer, or you remember that you have leftover paella in your fridge and no one else knows about it!…
Well I know I am biased but I am really getting pleasure out of using EYB. The last two nights I have cooked completely new dinners as a result of using Recipe searches. Last night I did a really quick Salmon and…
I was amused when looking through The Foods of Vietnam by Nicole Routhier to find in the chapter titled Vegetarian dishes, recipes that contained ground pork, shrimp, bacon, oyster sauce and fish sauce. There must be a…
After a lot of planning, EatYourBooks.com is finally live. The idea for the website grew from a desire I had to make better use of my large collection of cookbooks. I wanted to find new recipes quickly and to be able to…
