CookShelfHave you ever clicked on another member's username to see the list of books they own? It's the next best thing to standing in front of their bookcase. Now we've made it easier for you to browse 1,000s of other members'…
It's 12:30 AM at Vintage Restaurant and my work day is finally over. The restaurant is dead quiet and sparkly clean and I'm the last one to leave. The imprint of the day is hard wired into my bones and the echoes of the…
I notice more and more of late that publishers are experimenting with cookbook design. Not just in cookbooks intended for kids, where bold pictures, big type, and the occasional Elmo are par for the course. They're…
I've often noticed that the equatorial and tropical cookbooks come out in summer, when the greatest number of people have a chance of getting the warm-weather produce typically found in those climates. So we often see…
We have just indexed our 2,000th cookbook and we are heading towards half a million recipes. With lots of magazines and blogs now being indexed too, the recipe index on Eat Your Books just keeps getting more and more…
I've been away from home the last week at a summer rental house, confronting all the adjustments required in an unfamiliar kitchen: radiant burners instead of propane, non-stick pans instead of cast-iron, and above all,…
Karen Solomon talks about her love for 'The Jewish Home Cook Book'. Karen is the author of Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It and Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It The only thing better than cookbooks is digging through a shelf of…
I'm particularly excited about our guest contributor this month. Karen Solomon's whimsically titled books Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It and Jam it, Pickle It, Cure It explore the world of DIY cooking. They'll be my guides…
Raw food cookbooks...I love the paradox they pose. If it's raw, then it can't be a cookbook, because there's no cooking involved. And if there's no cooking involved, then why do you need a cookbook in the first place?…
Let's step away from the bookshelf and into the garden for a moment, shall we? I don't know if there is a time of year when I am more grateful for EYB than midsummer. This year especially, when a temperate spring and a…
It being the 4th, a lot of us are celebrating a different sort of independence--independence from the stove. We're going to cookouts and picnics and barbecues. We're getting buckets of fried chicken from wherever we…
We have now completed our first blog index - 1,099 recipes from the Simply Recipes blog by Elsie Bauer. You can add the blog and recipes to your Bookshelf - every recipe has a Recipe online link back to the Simply…
