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What is Cookbooker?

Too Many Recpies?

There's no shortage of recipes these days: cookbooks, magazines, food blogs and websites abound. But how do you keep track of the ones you've tried, the ones you want to try, and the ones you love? How do you remember which cookbook had that one amazing chocolate cake recipe? How do you find honest reviews of recipes before you spend hours making them?

Cookbooker is here to help! We help you catalogue, rate and review recipes from your favorite sources, then find out what other cooks think about them.

We bring the power and usefulness of a search engine, a catalogue and an online community to your kitchen.

What you can do with Cookbooker

  • Track your collection — keep a record of every cookbook, food magazine, and cooking website you own or follow.
  • Review and rate — write honest assessments of cookbooks and individual recipes, and read what other members think.
  • Log recipes you've made — record the recipes you've tried, with notes, photos, and ratings.
  • Discover new books — browse the catalogue, see what other members are cooking from, and find your next cookbook.

How is Cookbooker different from sites like LibraryThing or Goodreads?

We all allow you to track your collection of books, but simply put, Cookbooker is all about cooking. Book reviews are welcome, but the real focus of Cookbooker is on recipes. How often have you bought a cookbook and only made a few recipes from it? There's an unseen, uncooked 'iceberg' of recipes in your shelf or on your favourite websites. With the help of our amazing users, you can discover new favourite recipes and new favourite cookbooks, and share your thoughts on them with a community of like-minded home cooks.

Who is Cookbooker for?

For everyone who loves to cook, who loves the promise of a new cookbook, a favourite author or blogger, who wants a better way to keep track of their cooking than bookmarks or notes scribbled in margins.

A note on recipes

Cookbooker is not a recipe site — you won't find full recipes here. What you will find is a record of which recipes members have made, how they rated them, and what they thought. The recipes themselves live in the cookbooks, websites, and magazines where they were published and belong to their authors. Although you can add ingredients and private notes to your reviews on cookbooker, we do not permit people to share full recipes.