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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It may also be that the recipes assume coarse grained (eg Kosher) salt, which provides less salt by volume than the fine-grained kitchen salt most Americans use.
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