Eat Your Books is a clever idea, an on-line cookbook, magazine and recipe blogger indexing system. Rather than going to all your cookbook indexes looking for a cream brûlée, brisket or paella recipe you just go on line to Eat Your Books and type. You are allowed to add a total of five (cookbooks, magazines or on line original recipe blogs) to your personal library for FREE. Of course, who stops at just five but there is a fee, not a very expensive fee of $2.50 per month or $25 for the year.
If you are a cookbook junkie, this seems a good place to be with others like yourself – I’m easily at 300 cookbooks plus.
Let’s see what Eat Your Books is about
Not all cookbooks are on Eat Your Books website but you will probably find the majority of yours there. I tried adding a selection of the cookbooks they remain stacked on my office floor: The Flavors of Asia, Baking and Pastry-Mastering the Art and Craft, The Passover Table, Barefoot Contessa How Easy is That, The French Laundry Cookbook and Salute to Italy Celebrity Cookbook for a fair review of what is listed. The Baking and Pastry-Mastering the Art and Craft from the Culinary Institute of America and Salute to Italy Celebrity Cookbook circa 1984 were not indexed . My guess the first being a text book for the CIA students and the second being too old.
My ego couldn’t resist checking out my cookbook, Yum, Tasty Recipes from Culinary Greats and it was listed but not indexed and three people owned it..
When adding your books, it will tell you whether it is hard back or soft cover-be careful to make sure you choose the correct one. If the author has a recipe on line, it will indicate that as well. Some books are listed but they don’t have the index but you can request it. The Passover Table was listed but there was no index. I checked out the other six people who have it on their list. Amazing the number of cookbooks some people have – culinary has 5290, terje has 769 and the one person with the least amount of cookbooks in that group who had The Passover Table had 148 books
My recommendation
Use the five free books to play around with Eat Your Books, to play with the navigation and search system before committing to listing all your books and paying the fees. It took me a couple minutes to get the gist of the search system. Remember, Eat Your Book does not store the cookbook recipes it only indexes them so you know which cookbook to go to for a particular recipe. The system lets you bookmark favorites; users rank the recipes and much more. Go, play with the five free listings and see all the features the site has to offer. Eat Your Books http://www.eatyourbooks.com/home
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