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Site improvements & suggestions
Yes indeed - I'm looking at adding several basic categories and allowing members to add their own as well.
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andrew
October 2010
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What I'm Working on
Update: October 19th. I'm still working on tags. Tags are working well on the test site so far, but I don't want to launch tagging until you can actually do something with the tags (sorting, searching etc), so I'm working on that now.…
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andrew
October 2010
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How do you store and organise your herbs and spices?
Herbies looks great! I wonder if there's anything comparable in North America? A Google search found a number of online spice sellers, but it's hard to tell if one is better than another. It would be nice to know for sure you're getti…
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andrew
October 2010
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Site improvements & suggestions
I'm not sure, @Leeka - I'll look into it. Because the forum software has been added to Cookbooker and not written by me, I don't have complete control over it. Clicking a member's name right now gives you their forum information …
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andrew
October 2010
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Future Challenges
The hard part's going to be choosing one book each time! From a practical standpoint, Moosewood has the most members (over 100), while Zuni is at 35 and Madhur Jaffery's is at about 30. When I first was testing Cookbooker out and while I w…
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andrew
October 2010
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How do you store and organise your herbs and spices?
We recently reorganized our spice system and managed to find some nice metal horizontal racks that were just the size to fit in a drawer. We labelled the lids too, and it's helped a lot with finding everything quickly. I didn't think of co…
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andrew
October 2010
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What is your favorite cookie recipe?
If you read my cookie bake-off article, you'll know that mine is the New York Times recipe, created by David Leite (http://www.cookbooker.com/articles/2010/04/30/the-best-chocolate-chip-cookies-in-the-world/). This is the one I'd enter if …
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andrew
September 2010
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Future Challenges
Great ideas all! For around the world you could also have a chef from each country (though I could see arguments about who'd represent which one). I particularly like the idea from @wester with different versions of the same recipe. I did som…
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andrew
September 2010
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Importing your library
This is live now for everyone, and shows up as a tab in your bookshelf "Tools". You can also export, to make a local backup of your bookshelf/reviews. Enjoy!
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andrew
September 2010
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Site improvements & suggestions
Oops. That is a little bug that should have been stamped out early on. I've fixed it now. Thanks for letting me know about it.
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andrew
September 2010
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Importing your library
We have a new member who imported 3413 books from LibraryThing! (http://www.cookbooker.com/bookshelf/1814/wildcat-fan) So I definitely didn't want to lose all the tags she'd built up over the years. I'm hoping to have basic tagging in…
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andrew
September 2010
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Future Challenges
@aj12754 - actually, there are four free recipes on the site from the book, including the famous 'lamb popsicles'. Look here: http://www.cookbooker.com/title/1109/vijs-elegant-and-inspired-indian-cuisine?samples=all
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andrew
September 2010
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Importing your library
Just to update everyone, this is working quite well now, and I'll be creating a new tab in your bookshelf called 'tools' soon, which will contain this, as well as a page to export your library. I've made it so that the script wil…
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andrew
September 2010
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Future Challenges
@cadfael: Thanks for the suggestions. We haven't done Rose's Heavenly Cakes (I own it though; it's a lovely book) - I have also realized all of a sudden that we need a previous challenge page, and I'll have something up soon. Our…
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andrew
September 2010
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The best and the worst cookbooks, from the Observer
@bunyip - yes, there's definitely an Atlantic divide. From the TV shows that are not shown in North America, to well known food writers and chefs who few people here have heard of (and vice versa, I assume). Here in Canada we do get more Britis…
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andrew
September 2010
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How do you organize your cookbooks?
I'm similar to @Leeka, with my physical organization - I have a small shelf in the kitchen with the greatest hits on it, and a nearby bookshelf where the books are more or less random. I like @Ivautier's idea of putting box numbers in a …
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andrew
September 2010
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Site improvements & suggestions
I have fixed the sorting so that it works properly on the second page - thanks for letting me know about that bug. It's more obvious now that you can search by book or recipe title. I'm going to work on the category/style options also.
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andrew
September 2010
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Site improvements & suggestions
@kaye16 - thanks for the suggestion. What we have now for favorites could be expanded to include a wish list perhaps. I'll have to review it and see what makes sense for us, since of course, we are not a shopping site. I do plan on working on t…
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andrew
September 2010
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Question about challah
I haven't made it, so I can't say if it's any good, but there's a recipe in Marcy Goldman's Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking for Raisin Challa. Comparing it to the one in Artisan Bread Every Day, it's fairly similar in…
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andrew
September 2010
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What did you have for dinner?
I have to share tonight's dinner as it worked out so well. Saturday is pizza night, and I always use Peter Reinhart's Neo Neapolitain dough recipe from American Pie: http://www.cookbooker.com/recipe/289/neo-neapolitan-pizza-dough I always…
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andrew
September 2010
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What did you have for dinner?
@SqueakyChu - that sounds quite a bit like Thomas Keller's Summer Vegetable Gratin (http://www.cookbooker.com/recipe/4625/summer-vegetable-gratin). I picked up some fresh corn at a local farmstand today and made corn fritters from this Cook…
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andrew
September 2010
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Essential Cookbook
Yes indeed. There are a few classic vegetarian books out there - Bittman, or Moosewood, all good choices for a Challenge. I am also keeping my eyes out for any new books. Heidi from the website 101 Cookbooks has a new vegetarian book coming out in t…
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andrew
August 2010
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Site improvements & suggestions
Ah, I understand. I'll look at the options and see what makes sense. Onto the to-do list! Perhaps we can have two categories. I'm also going to revise the layout of the favourites folder as it's a bit clunky at the moment.
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andrew
August 2010
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Essential Cookbook
I'd love to! I was just thinking about that when I saw the number of Ina fans here (and the number of members who own her books). I did email her publisher's publicity department earlier this summer about doing something, and got no respon…
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andrew
August 2010
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What did you have for dinner?
@bhnyc - that's one of our favourite recipes (jherb, who made the first review, is my wife). If we don't have turkey we use ground chicken thighs (and they're much cheaper here than ground turkey). I also cook the onion in advance. Ne…
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andrew
August 2010
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Site improvements & suggestions
Categories are a good idea - and shouldn't be too hard to implement. They were on my to-do list, and I can bump them up to a higher spot. @Leeka - we do have a favourites folder! It is in your bookshelf - and each recipe has a little folder ic…
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andrew
August 2010
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What did you have for dinner?
@GaietyGirl: Ad Hoc is, I think, quite brilliant. A lot of my cookbooks are great sources for recipes, but they don't change the way I cook, or don't change it very much. Ad Hoc is already starting to influence me. It is complicated for a …
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andrew
August 2010
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Using the Forum
Using the Forum It should be fairly straightforward. You can start a new discussion from any page by clicking the large button to the right. Replying to a discussion in process is even simpler. You can use basic HTML to add links and formatting to …
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August 2010
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