Summer fruit cookbooks
I have a soft spot in my heart for fruit trees, but the feeling is not mutual. Over the years, we've tried to plant at least a dozen fruit trees on the property. Three have survived--two apples and a pear. The apples…
2011
Add blogs to your bookshelf
To make Eat Your Books even more useful we are adding blogs and food websites so you can now search ALL the recipes you want to use - whether they are in your cookbooks, in your magazines or on your favorite website.…
Joe Yonan
Joe Yonan is the Food Editor for The Washington Post and recent cookbook author I knew writing a cookbook would be a lot of work. After all, I had done it before -- in 2004, with Boston chef Andy Husbands. What I didn't…
The baked and the beautiful
When it comes to books about cake, there are the ones you use and the ones you don't. There are the ones whose recipes you can, with a little attention, manage to produce yourself. And then there are the ones where you…
Cold and fizzy
Just before the tornadoes struck, we had a week of humid, sweat-soaked heat western Massachusetts. Then came the twisters. They broke the heat in the course of their rapid, destructive passage, and we were grateful, at…
To the sea! To the sea!
The urge kicks in no later than Memorial Day: to hear the ceaseless roar of waves, to sift the sand between your toes, to eat of the shelled and the finned (maybe washed down with a pint of the foamy). Here in the…
Magazine indexing
You may have noticed a proliferation of Cook's Illustrated and Bon Appetit magazines in the EYB Library's latest indexed list. Now that we have the ability to index magazines we have several indexers making their way…
Cookbook awards season
Just as January and February are movie awards months with the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and the Oscars so May and June are cookbook awards months. The season kicked off on Friday night with the prestigious James Beard…
Love-hate relationship with a cookbook--and it's only day 1.
Today I'm wrestling with an intriguing newcomer: The Cook's Book of Intense Flavors, by Robert and Molly Krause. The premise of the book is fascinating: 101 unusual, vivid flavor combinations and recipes to go with…
More new developments
We put up a new release last night with another new feature. You can now view all comments for recipes under the Notes tab for a book. The total number of Notes (shown next to the speech bubble) includes all recipe…
What sells in summer?
Every so often I have a look at the bestseller lists for cookbooks. It keeps me honest--if the books people are buying aren't the books that I'm recommending, I should know why, even if that doesn't change my opinion…
New developments on EYB
Many of you will be pleased that we have just released some much-requested features: Indexing of Magazines - we will shortly have the entire Cooks Illustrated collection indexed. Bon Appétit, Gourmet, Cooking Lightand…