Eat Your Books

[WillTravelForFood]

With all the recent talk about Paprika to manage recipes, there is also EAT YOUR BOOKS, a service to help you utilize your physical cookbooks better.

haven’t used it ourselves, but it sounds like a companion to Paprika.

from the review, it sounds like it’s an u er-index of Every Cookbook Ever Printed (over 10k, plus magazine and recipe websites) allowing you to quickly find a recipe that you know is in the stack or bookshelf somewhere, but you just keep forgetting which volume.

where Paprika is a recipe manager, this sounds like a cookbook manager.

Instead of plugging "chicken parm" into Google then wasting 40 minutes sifting good from bad, these results come from trusted sources: your favorite cookbooks.

basically, it levels the playing field of all your favorite cookbooks, and allows you to zero in on a recipe that you didn’t know you had in the pile, that you might have skipped over as you flipped casually through the pages trying to find something interesting to make.

has anybody else used that site and has commentary?

https://www.wired.com/review/eat-your-books/

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[fzxdoc]

I subscribed for a while but found online surfing yielded more recipes more quickly. It's OK, once you have loaded all your cookbooks, if searching for a recipe by ingredient or part of a name, but the recipe itself doesn't pop up. You have to go to the book to see if it's actually what you wanted or remembered.

Still, it's a good way to use the cookbooks you have, which admittedly, I don't. I usually buy a cookbook, single out half dozen recipes, and ignore the rest of the book. EYB looks through all of your listed cookbooks. I did find delightful surprises hidden away in those long-languishing cookbooks.

I just re-upped for a $3 monthly subscription to see if I will actually use it at this point in my life. Since I'm a former member, I couldn't take advantage of the free trial. Amazingly, they still had all the cookbooks that I had entered in my account 10 years ago.

Since I'm in the process of (again) paring down my cookbook collection, perhaps using EYB for a few months may help me to use what I have, and to see if it stays on my radar as I get even more interested in cooking from my collection.

Kathryn

[skipsdaughter]

I have a subscription -- but I also collect cookbooks, so it's helpful for me to go find a recipe. I do a lot of searching for ingredients (although it doesn't help with the church or community cookbooks in the collection). I still need to go find the recipe for exact amounts, but it gets me started in a direction. And, every once in awhile, if I'm not home, I'll search for the recipe and cookbook online to see if anyone's posted the recipe online if I think I need it more quickly.

I don't use paprika -- I blog (mostly for me) with the recipes I cook and at any given time have about 1,000 recipes I want to try/I've tagged and typed into a "draft" to try. Readership is low, but it's really my own tracking of foods/recipes, my own electronic recipe box, if you will, and if someone else finds it useful, that's great. If anyone wants to take a look, I've included a link: https://iwillmakecrafts.wordpress.com/ .