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Hello, Gorgeous!

Warning: braggadocio ahead:
I have organized my cookbooks. All [I'm not telling the number] of them. This is one of three cabinet/shelf sections just off my kitchen and I know exactly which cookbook is in every one of them. Far more important, I can locate recipes in most of them with just the click of a few computer keys. It’s a miracle — a miracle wrought by a saintly new website called Eat Your Books.
I have tried and discarded scores of recipe organization systems over the years. Printed ones from magazines, newspapers and websites are easy; they reside in plastic sleeves contained in clearly labeled 3-ring binders. It’s the cookbook recipes — tried and un-tried –that proved to be an unruly, heathen mob.
No longer. At least not for the cookbooks indexed on EYB–which includes a large portion of my collection, with more being added to their list every week.

I can search by recipe name; I can search by author; I can search by ingredient. (The other day I typed in “pomegranate molasses” and found a great new squab recipe.)
I’m an obnoxiously zealous convert, out to preach of this site’s wonders, while offering up prayers that anyone who owns more than three or four cookbooks joins and guarantees EYB’s success and longevity.
You get a 30-day free trial; then there’s a fee. I tried it for less than 30 minutes before I bought a lifetime membership. Go ahead: eat your cookbooks.

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