EatYourBooks is a useful service which indexes cookbooks for their ingredient lists. So if you have dozens of cookbooks, and you’re excited about asparagus coming into season, you can search for asparagus and find recipes in your books which use it.
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I wish it had search features organized around seasonality. Like: it’s early April in San Francisco; what should I cook this week from my book collection? Alas it has no API so I can’t build that feature myself.
(Cookbooks should be organized by season not by course fight me!!)
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One other neat thing about this service is that it includes reader comments, by recipe, like on NYT Cooking, except for printed cookbooks. e.g. for Six Seasons, a weeknight favorite, there are 551 reader comments across the book’s recipes! eatyourbooks.com/library/179045
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(Typical caveats about internet comments apply: e.g. the first comment suggests that the book is too heavy-handed on the salt; this person is IMO wrong and just not accustomed to restaurant-style-cooking!)
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I propose taking over your kitchen, cook this, and have Great Fun With Assorted Guests
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Sold!! I’ll be fully vaccinated in late April—let’s do it. 💪🚀
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This is great. It might seem a bit more work, but iOS Notes, if you scan just the index of your cookbooks, it immediately OCRs the text - giving you which books have the ingredient and page #. It also appears to detect objects like "leek" contained in any images in Notes
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iOS Notes continues to improve & amaze: I knew they did excellent OCR and handwriting recognition, but I just searched Notes for a leek recipe - and it caught an unlabeled image of a leek in a JPEG in some note. Impressive.
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Ah, neat! Thanks for sharing. I confess I’ve been wary of online recipe collections—have you enjoyed this one?
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