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 agree 1000% here. The best book that approaches this is almost the most creative vegetable cookbook I've ever seen: amazon.com/Six-Seasons-Ne
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One of my absolute favorites!!
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This series is based on seasonality
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A good motivation to learn German!
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