Where do the recipes come from?
I read cookbooks like other people read novels! Many are family favorites I have collected over the years. A few I have come up with on my own. I enjoy experimenting with new recipes and rarely cook the same recipes for my family, so I have had years to accumulate recipes. Some of the more popular sources for my recipes are Gourmet and Bon Apetit and Cooking Light Magazines, cookbooks from Ina Garten & Giada de Laurentiis and several other Food Network personalities, vegetarian diva Deborah Madison, Australian author Donna Hay, Martha Stewart, Nancy Silverton, Rosie Daley and Dr. Andrew Weil, The Silver Spoon Cookbook (truly authentic Italian dishes), George & Piret Munger, & Marcella Hazan. Others come from cooking classes I have taken over the last 15 years. I am also more than happy to cook any family favorites you might have.
What is the source of the recipes in the database? Do they come from individuals? Magazines? Restaurants? Somewhere else? • How Many Recipes Are in the Database? Here we’ll usually just display the number they claim (e.g. “over 5000 recipes”). If there is other information about the database size, we’ll provide that, too. • How Many Popular Recipes Are in the Database? This describes the results of a search for five very popular recipe types: • salad recipes • chicken recipes • salmon recipes • cookie recipes • cake recipes Also we’ve searched for a more obscure type of food to see how “broad” the database is: • risotto recipes This helps to give a clue about how big the database really is, and it may help you to find which sites have more of the recipes you’re looking for. • How Can the Recipes Be Searched? Here we’ll describe how easy it is to find the recipes you’re looking for. • What Special Features Does the Site Have? They are listed as pros (+), cons (-), or neutral aspects (*)
