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Cook your books:Do you ever find yourself Googling a recipe because you can’t remember which book you saw it in? Eatyourbooks.com is a new website that allows you to create an indexed virtual library, using the books you already own. Find your books in the Eat Your Books online library of more than 16,000 titles and create a personalised catalogue that can be searched by categories including author, book title, recipe title, ingredient and cuisine type. If, for example, you want to cook a leg of lamb, you’ll be able to generate a list of all of the relevant recipes in your books and even print out a shopping list once you’ve made your selection.
Eat Your Books was set up last autumn by sisters Jane Kelly and Fiona Nugent, who live in the US and New Zealand respectively. Their library is weighted in favour of American writers at the moment, but there are lots of familiar names too, including Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, Jill Dupleix, Bill Granger and Gordon Ramsay. Eat Your Books is subscription-based ($25 a year/$50 life membership), but there is a 30-day free trial period. This is an innovative site that will provide hours of amusement, as well as being very useful – but it might be a good idea to remove the testimonial from “Delores from Skull [sic], Ireland”!
