Tastebook - make your own cookbook

Happy Holidays all-- I just wanted to write a little note about the awesome website http://www.tastebook.com that I used for several family Christmas gifts this year. Many of you may already know about it - I learned about Tastebook from Elise of Simply Recipes. Anyway I used the website to add family recipes, pick cover art for the cookbook, and could have (if I had planned a little better) uploaded family pictures to the cookbook. It was a huge success! The website was easy to use and the cookbook turned out great. It is a very sturdy ring bound cookbook. You can upload recipes for free, if you just want to maintain a site for all your favorite recipes. To purchase a cookbook, it costs $34.95 and you can add up to 100 recipes. If you do not add that many at once (I started with 66) then you get credits for additional pages that they will send to you separately, at no extra charge (although I don't know if they charge shipping for those extra pages). You can also add recipes from other websites that tastebook links to, such as Epicurious and 101 Cookbooks. Something to keep in mind for next Christmas...

Wow! Thanks for the idea and the link. We've done similar things with family photos, such as for my parents' 50th anniversary. The idea of being able to collect and publish our own selected set of recipes--for ourselves or for others--is brilliant and I've already got too many projects in mind.

Wonderful! Thanks.

If you have a recipe box on Epicurious, you can pull it directly into your tastebook as well...I hadn't realized you could put your own recipes in it, though...

I just browsed the website and had to laugh -- one of the Hanukkah recipes featured a sausage, wild mushroom and onion pizza.

Suzy