If you’ve never heard of the Lyre bird, you’re in for a treat. I had to pick my jaw up off my desk. I won’t spoil what it sounds like for you. You just have to hear its incredible call for yourself.
What's for dinner? Search your cookbook collection
Do you ever wish you had the CTRL + F shortcut in real life? Think about it: An easy way to find what you’re looking for in printed text would be a lifesaver.
Now, this isn’t that, but it functions essentially the same way. If you have a stack of cookbooks collecting dust, you’ll love this site.
Eat Your Books is an online database of nearly 10,000 cookbooks with 1.5 million recipes — plus magazines and blogs. You create a profile, select the cookbooks you own and Eat Your Books generates your recipe index.
Now you can find recipes you want to make, with the ingredients you have on hand, without paging through an entire cookbook. You’re just a quick search away from breaking out of your dinnertime rut. Search by ingredients, cuisine, ease of preparation, cooking style (Instant Pot, anyone?) and more.
Aside from your own library of cookbooks, the site includes recipes from “The New York Times” (you can search by columnist), years of Bon Appetit and Food & Wine and the entire catalog of Cooks Illustrated magazine.
With a free account, you can add five cookbooks. If you’re a cookbook fiend and want to include your entire collection, a premium subscription will run you $3 per month or $30 for a year.
Even before you sign in, you can browse recipes from cookbooks you don’t own. Scroll to the bottom of the home page, select a cuisine or author. We chose Jamie Oliver. Now, select a recipe that looks great, and click Online. You’ll see a version of the recipe posted online. We’ll take these grilled lamb kebabs, please.
With a paid membership, you can organize your cookbook collection, save and tag recipes, and create menus.
It’s time to put your cookbooks to work.
Try this site. It’s great stuff!
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On the catwalk, baby: LG’s high-tech fabric, Stretchable, was on display at Seoul Fashion Week. The Stretchable displays use silicone similar to what’s in contact lenses for max pulling, bending and twisting. Get back to me when there’s a real-life invisibility cloak.
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Once upon a crime: Netflix’s new true-crime miniseries, “Baby Reindeer,” is getting rave reviews. Scottish comedian Richard Gadd wrote and stars in the retelling of his own real-life stalker story. After giving her a free cup of tea, Gadd’s stalker barraged him with 40,000 emails and countless X posts and voicemails over five years. Could you imagine?