Time for a snack and a book
The holiday season this year has been a compressed blur, with Thanksgiving segueing instantly into Hanukkah into Christmas. I bet you haven't had a chance to do much more than crack your cookbooks to the right page as…
2010
J M Hirsch
J M Hirsch on Cookbooks as Inspiration. My job makes it hard not to be a little jaded about cookbooks. As food editor for The Associated Press, I get sent virtually every cookbook published, sometimes several times…
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…
What makes a cookbook terrific or terrible?
Susie has written a great article today in Publishers Weekly, titled "10 Things Every Cookbook Publisher Should Know". Susie receives stacks of new cookbooks every week and she road-tests and reviews many of them. So…
Susie's picks for best cookbooks of 2010
Our own Susie Chang was on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday this morning with some of her picks of the best cookbooks this year. The full list is on the NPR website and it's also worth listening to the on-air story. We will…
How many cookbooks do we need?
Josh Ozersky writes in the current issue of Time magazine that no-one needs more than about four cookbooks. What nonsense! Nancy Baggett, author of numerous wonderful cookbooks, has responded on her blog and asked for…
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…
Armchair Adventures
Lushly photographed on coated stock, ruinously priced, and as heavy as a KitchenAid mixer--you know what I'm talking about: coffee-table cookbooks. You tell yourself this will be the last one, truly, and yet there you…
Molly Stevens
Molly Stevens Why Recipes Don't Work... We caught up with the one and only Molly Stevens--author, co-author, or editor of many cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-winning All about Braising. She's also a…
Crust craze: Dinner's in the oven!
If there's one thing I love about the end of the summer, it's turning the oven back on again. And if there's one thing I like about an oven, it's getting to make dinner under, inside, or on top of a crust. My son's…
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…