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!
2010
James Beard Book Award nominations announced
The nominations for the prestigious James Beard Cookbook Awards were announced today. They can be viewed on our JB Awards nominations page. We will be attending the awards in New York on May 2nd which is going to be…
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…
Susie's Breads
People have strong feelings about that ancient skill, the baking of bread. There are those who avoid it like the plague because yeast is smelly and inscrutable, kneading is messy, and who has time to wait for a 3-hour…
Gender studies in the kitchen.
Today, something funny came in the mail, and it set me thinking. 100 Recipes Every Woman Should Know, from the editors of Glamour Magazine (who else!?), is a blithely feminine romp. The recipes have titles like "Wake Up…
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…
Rose Gray of The River Cafe has died
I am so sad to hear that Rose Gray has died of cancer at the age of 71. In my expense-account days in the TV industry in London, I would eat often at the River Cafe. I can remember the first time I went there - it was…
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…
Slow cookers
OK, I came late to the game when it comes to slow cookers. As a person who's home and in the kitchen most of the time anyway, I didn't need a device that could do the cooking by itself for hours and hours. I was the…
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…
Ruth Reichl on what cookbooks mean to her
Ruth Reichl didn't like Adam Gopnik's article in The New Yorker and on her blog she explains how her approach to cooking differs. I'm definitely in Ruth's camp - cooking because you love to do it and because you love…