Time for a giveaway to celebrate 35,200 members! I have for you a little old school and a little new school selection: a set of four of Martha Stewart’s cookbooks and new copies of Aarti Paarti and Carla’s Comfort Food. (Sorry that the Martha’s Living Cookbook is a little crinkled on the book jacket – I tripped over it the other night after I got them lined up ready to take a picture. Let this be a lesson to you, don’t drink and cookbook (or don’t turn the light off at your desk and try to get to the stairs in the dark).
In addition to this set of books, I am going to gift one of you a one year subscription to Eat Your Books (EYB).
I’ve been writing reviews for EYB for about six months. Recently, I took the position of Cookbook Promotions Manager – writing reviews, contests, author events and more. I’ve slowly been adding my collection onto my bookshelf – I believe I’m over 600 now and still have thousands to go. One reason I’m anxious to complete my bookshelf is because I have purchased the same book not only twice, but sometimes three times. The cost alone of not buying duplicate books will be recouped in no time.
Of course, you can open an account with EYB for free to enter contests – but for $30.00 a year – a little over the price of a book – you receive incredible value including access to forums and other members’ reviews of recipes. I’m copying this explanation of what EYB does from their website for you here:
“Eat Your Books is a website for people who love cookbooks and love to use great recipes. If you have a cookbook collection, you probably get a lot of pleasure from browsing your books – but there are times when you haven’t got time to look through them all to find a recipe. Or maybe you feel you’re not using them as effectively as you’d like, sticking to familiar recipes or not branching beyond the current favorites.
Eat Your Books can help you find recipes in seconds, we’re the only website to have indexed the most popular cookbooks, so you can include them in your online searches. You might also like to use recipes from other sources, with Eat Your Books you can do a single search across ALL your recipes no matter where they are.
With Eat Your Books you can create your own personal Bookshelf and you can find recipes across:
Your cookbooks – tell us which cookbooks you own. If we haven’t indexed a favorite book, use the EYB indexing tools and do it yourself.
Your food magazines – add that stack of magazines, all the most popular magazines have been indexed.
Great food blogs and websites – add Food52, David Lebovitz, Smitten Kitchen, 101 Cookbooks and many more.
Your own personal recipe clippings – bring some order to your clippings files by using the EYB indexing tools.
Your favorite online recipes – using the EYB Bookmarklet – add any online recipe to your collection.
Eat Your Books is NOT a recipe site, so you won’t find the recipes here, but you will be able to find them and if there is an online version of the recipe there will be a link to it.”
The benefits to cookbook authors and publishing companies to work with Eat Your Books are multifaceted. EYB not only indexes the books for their members but we also promote the books through a weekly roundup post, monthly roundup post and newsletter, giveaway posts and author articles. As a member of EYB, you will receive all this information as well.
Giveaway: To enter this giveaway: leave a comment here telling me something about your collection. You may return and enter daily with a comment. For a second entry, you can share this post on Social Media at any time during this giveaway. For purposes of shipping the books – this giveaway is open to US addresses only. If you live outside the U.S. and want to enter for the EYB membership chance – do so – if you win – I will gift you the EYB membership and pick another winner for the books. Accordingly, if you are outside the U.S. just leave a comment to that effect on your entries. A random winner will be chosen on October 4th. Good luck!
Random Number Generator picked #72 – Dani.
I’ve had the pleasure of living in Europe for half of my life. So the majority of my books are European. I was born and raised in England and spent all my schook brears in Wales so I have a good collection from there. Plus, I lived 10 yrs in Germany so have books from Germany ad well. I don’t have many American books as that’s just not the kind of food I make.
My collection has been neglected lately and needs some updating!! I have some great chinese cooking books… I need some more modern cookbooks though!
I love the Southern Living magazine annuals. I have them starting with 1980. I have found some outrageous dessert recipes that are my go to recipes for holidays.
I am working on collecting cookbooks from around the world.
My cookbook collecting is pretty eclectic but I tend to gravitate toward historical cooking expecially early American cooking from the colonial days through 1950”s. I’m keen on campfire cooking, shaker recipes and even made a cake on a Webber when the electricity went out! I love recipes handed down by regular folks using ingredients from their local areas. I love learning and adapting old cooking techniques and using old kitchen tools and serving ware. There nothing like making a classic custard vanillia ice cream using an old fashioned ice cream maker, with a group of family and friends, on a warm summer night.
I fell in love with cookbooks in my early teens. I love reading them like novels, flagging interesting recipes to try, and using them to research new skills. What started as one then two is now a thousand.
I know where my interest in recipes began: watching the Trudy McNall cooking show in Rochester New York over 50 years ago! That interest has continued to grow over the years as I’ve acquired a small, but much enjoyed collection of cookbooks. I specialize in cookbooks related to restaurants, and those assembled by church and school groups.
My collection is small and eclectic, but I want it to grow. I love blogs and recipe sites, electronic recipe books and Pinterest, but there is nothing like opening a brand new cookbook, excited to be delighted by its contents, not does anything beat the feel of aged, fragile pages of a well-worn culinary tome.
I treasure my books and I’m lucky that my husband is tolerant of the stacks on chairs and tables throughout our apartment. The largest sections on shelves are desserts, baking and chocolate.
My book collection is a hodgepodge but mostly about baking. I used to go the Strand weekly and pick out books wily nily, I have no more room to do that.
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My collection really started within the last 3 years. I moved out of my family’s house and had to cook much more often then before. I love different types of food so I like to look for different ethnic cookbooks. I also love to bake and in a few months will leave the US for Canada to attend pastry school! So over half of my books are baking.
PS I also like to buy my honey cookbooks in an effort to get him to cook for me more often… he owes me a roasted duck from Edward Lees book.
I started my cookbook collection as a small child. I received cookbooks for Christmas and birthdays. I have a wide variety of types and titles. Some of my favorites are the church recipe books that are tried and true. I always look for cookbooks at auctions, secondhand stores and estate sales. I enjoy reading cookbooks just like most people read novels. Always on the lookout for the next great recipe. I think I’m addicted.
My cookbook collection is completely random and very unorganized. That said, I would never part with any of them. They are a part of who I am, and what I love!
I have an extensive cookbook collection, I have Julia, James Beard, the NY Times cookbook, the Times International series, mostly classic old school, mixed with Nigella and Jamie and Cooks. I pick through them and reread them often and try to cook something from them and the current Bon Appetite regularly. This is the reason I follow the Cookbook Junkies. I cannot visit a thrift shop without looking at the cookbooks and taking home a few.
I’m excited about my collection of cookbooks because I finally get to display them on shelves out in the open instead of seeing empty fish tanks. Love it! Most of my collection are baking books, but I also love collecting from chefs/cooks/friends who I love who have had the privilege of having books published.
I have been collecting a lot of gluten free and vegan cookbooks lately. Trying to mix things up and have a nice variety of cookbooks on hand.
I recently sold half of my 1,030 cookbook collection! But my young nieces still love to peruse and borrow from the collection. Guess I know who gets the collection when I’m gone (smile) Love my young cookbook readers!
I have a huge collection of middle eastern food books. I would love a book from Each country
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I use Eat your Books regularly! My cookbook collection is only books I will cook out of . I don’t have the room for unused ones. I love everyone I have. If I win I will probably share them with my new daughter in law to be. Thank you!
My cookbook collection spans 40 years. I have kept notes and cards from my mother, family and friends and used them as bookmarks. When I open a book to a favorite recipe, there is a card from a loved one that brings back memories!
The majority of my cookbooks are desserts. I probably have added over 250 cookbooks since joining The Cookbook Junkies!
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My collection started with “The Joy of Cooking” 40+ years ago. My copy is stained with souvenirs from cooking adventures throughout my adult life. The books on my shelves wax and wane as I acquire new ones, donate those those I lose interest in, or give them away to family and friends. My favorites change from year to you, and there are a number of vintage books among them!
Love this group, love cookbooks. My collection is extra heavy with Southern regional cookbooks, then Asian, then Latin American.
I’ve been collecting cookbook since I was a little girl. I particularly love Junior League type cookbooks from all different regions. I inherited my mom’s cookbook collection when she passed away just over 5 years ago. I recently moved to the South and am currently fascinated with collecting cookbooks focusing on Southern cuisine as well as all different types of ethnic cuisines. My mother loved Martha Stewart and making everything from scratch and passed it along to me. I will try any type of dish and love stretching my culinary skills through experimentation!
Love exploring new cultures through recipes and seeing others’ takes on ones I’m already familiar with. Plus, nothing is more pleasing than to go through a book that has been well designed! Ah, to collect cookbooks! Only those that collect understand! Those that do not only ask: “Why do we always eat the same thing if you have so many cookbooks?”
My cookbook collection is a reflection of my interests and travels over the years. My ideal souvenir of a trip is always a cookbook. I have many great memories associated with the books in my collection.
My cookbook collection has grown dramatically over the last few years. I have added more bookshelves and they are filled to overflowing. I could really benefit from EYB to help me organize and use my collection more efficiently.
About 10 years ago, right before hub retired, I decided I needed to weed out cookbooks I had no intention of using, simply to make more room. So anything with meat (I have been a vegetarian for 40 years) was donated unless one of my kids wanted it. Many of these were from my early married years. I have now replaced them and probably tripled the amount of books I have but now, they are what I am! Some older veg and now vegan books are added. I tend to lend some out which isn’t really the best idea as now I have to replace them. After 45 years of wedding insanity, I finally bought a pressure cooker (special diet for the woofus) and now am buying that type of book. The great thing about cookbooks-even if you don’t always use a recipe, they are soothing to read and a great conversation starter! BTW-hub is veg at home. Since he won’t cook his own food, he has to eat what I do!
I have about 4k cookbooks. It’s an addiction. I love them and read them like novels……I like the little odd ones from long ago no longer around companies…….like Spry, or the ones ‘dated’ like for congealed salads, etc. So, of course I would love to win this contest.
I have a lot of American regional cuisine cookbooks.. When I traveled I brought home a local cookbook instead of an I New Orleans, or Ketchikan or Martha’s Vineyard coffee mug.
When thinking about my collection of cookbooks, I think about how did I get started in this hobby. And I guess it started with my first and second cookbooks, Fanny Farmer and Paul Prudhoe me. Then I inherited cookbooks from my grandmother and my husband’s mother. Both had collections f r of the 40’stress and fifties…Whenever I visit somewhere new, I look for a local cookbook. And this is how my collection got started. I have many favorites I gravitate to like best c friends and others are to inspire me. To introduce me to add one thing new and lovely. I love my cookbooks.
My collection has definently changed over time. Originally, it was all eating well and foodnetwork chefs. But since joining TCJ, OMG life changing, eye opening and so much better! I have learned so much! I still have Bobby Flay cookbooks but I also have Taste and Technique. Which By the way, I can not wait to cook through! This is one of my all time favorite groups! Thank you Jenny for all you do. Truely!
I have many baking books – recently started watching Martha’s Baking show – love it!
I have a pretty streamlined but eclectic collection. I love finding older recipe books, as well as using e-recipe-books. I have a nice little collection of weird old church cookbooks, that have some old-fashioned recipes- many of them with jello, but some really great ones too! I love a cookbook that shares a story with it- giving me the background on why and when the recipe ever came to be. It’s a bit like treasure hunting~
My collection began with my first Pilsbury cookbook, a gift from my mother. I had cookbooks everywhere! They were in closets, under the bed, piled high on my bedside table, and stacked near my favorite chair. I finally had a bookshelf built, for my kitchen. They range from Southern cookbooks, Chinese, church fundraisers, lots of baking, pressure cooker, crockpot, microwave, to the classics.
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My college tion is a mix of old and seriously old school.
Most of my cookbooks are baking and cookie cookbooks. I like to bake.
My collection is very eclectic; it’s a mix of worldwide cuisines. My most prized books are really more coffee table books with gorgeous pictures and a history of various cultures and its recipes.
Lots of Asian cooking, science and narrow focused (pickles, tofu, eggs, miso, etc.) 🙂
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I have so many old cookbooks and general topic cookbooks! Lately I’ve been concentrating on cookbooks with specific culture themes, especially Asian & African.
I too love reading cookbooks and have a wide variety from which to select. They range from total meat eating to vegetarian to grains and juicing. I must admit that I do love mixing meat/seafood with grains and vegetables. Deborah Madison, Yotom Ottolenghi, Mary Berry, Nigella Lawson, Ina Garten and Jilia Childs are Lau favourites at the moment.
I have seen Aarti on television and she really is an inspirational cook. I would truely love to add Aarti Paarti’s cookbook to my collection.
Thank you so much for the opportunity to receive such fantastic cookbooks.
I use ATK cookbooks the most.
My two favorite cookbooks to read from my collection are vintage goodies! “Culinary Arts Institute Encyclopedic Cookbook” published 1950 and the other, “Cooking With a Jug of Wine” published 1949. I love reading the stories, not necessarily following all the recipes, as cooking styles and methods have evolved over the years. Have a wonderful day!
I started collecting cookbooks and cooking magazines when I got married in 1992 and have learned so much over the years. Thankfully, my husband doesn’t complain!!
My collection started with baking cookbooks and grew in variety and number to about 300.
collection is quite eclectic and tend to gravitate toward used in general. love to read them like novels and play around with recipes. play a game with myself typically when groceries are low and come up with AWESOME combos that way as well bc things i wouldnt normally put together like pulled pork and slaw or tikka masala in eggroll wraps, nutella ravioli with raspberry dipping sauce,,,, (YUMMMM)
My collection isn’t that big, I get a lot of cookbooks from the library so I can try them out before buying.
I don’t have a large selection. I do have a few but the last few years I have paid more attention to Pinterest than getting more cookbooks
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My collection Is heavy on baking and pastries. I also collect canning cookbooks. Eyeing the new Ball book of canning.
International cookbooks are my favorites to add to my collection. Most recent addition was All Under Heaven.
What a great collection!
I realize that I don’t need more recipes. I need more cookbooks and more shelves.
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I blame The Cookbook Junkies for the recent expansion of my cookbook collection! I have purchased most of my recent cookbooks on the recommendation of this website/Facebook page!!
I confess, I’m a cook but junkie.
My collection is just getting started. I recently have been loving cook books.
My favorite books are the local ones I collect while travelling.
Great bundle of books you got there, Jenny.
just love cookbooks
I love cookbooks that teach me something.
My daughter traveled to Ireland and brought me three local cookbooks.
Currently my books are in boxes because we are in the process of moving and I miss grabbing one to peruse at night.
My oldest cookbook is authored by Pearl S. Buck who also wrote one of my favorite novels, The Good Earth.
My collection is too small. Need more cookbooks!
I have no Martha in my collection!
Oh man, I have a mix of everything….well not yet, but it is my goal. I have books by Thomas Keller and Anthony Bourdon, Cooks Illustrated, Test Kitchen, Asian, Burgers, Cuban, Mexican, Nourishing Traditions, Tapas, A Year in my Kitchen, PornBurger (just got and love it), Alice Walters, Vegetarian like Deborah Madison’s Julie Child award winner Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, Vegan, Julia Child….sigh, it’s not a huge collection, but definitely a mix and building!
It’s Friday!
I probably have over 1000 booked at those point. I started collecting Food& Wine Annuals, books by Food Network personalities and Southern Living Annuals and started adding books from all the places I’ve traveled to. Now I also have some of my mom’s collection and books on my favorite types of food- Mexican, Italian and Z Chinese.
I want Carla so bad!! Love her
My collection is eclectic and well-traveled–it’s been to 5 countries in 11 years.
The landlord has finally agreed to renovating this apartment, it’s going to be hell trying to move the giant bookcase filled with my cookbooks not to mention all my cooking equipment and boxes and boxes of Beatles memorabilia.
My collection started when I had a part time job at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor at a shop called Books for Cooks.
I love my NYC melting pot books . Brooklyn has become a player.
I haven’t read or looked at any of my books for the past two days.
I’d love to get my grubby little mitts on these books!
I’ve gotten pickier as I age. I used to buy almost any book I saw at the flea market. No more. I buy missing pieces to collections. I buy books I’ve wanted a long time. I buy books by favorite authors and Chef’s.
Would love to update my collection with some new Martha! I have just really gotten into her cooking shows and she is really amazing! Thank you for a wonderful blog!
My wife now has me watching Martha Stewart – don’t tell any one. I think her cookbooks would be a great addition to the family collection!