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It would be nice if I could search my cookbook indexes online. For
obvious reasons, only the indexes would be available, just to give
you an idea of whether there is a recipe for X in my 2 shelves of
books.
There could also be a function that would allow you to search your
books by ingredient
to suggest recipes that include a list of
ingredients. This would be confined only to the books that you
have.
There could always be links to outside sources and recipes that
match your search terms (maybe with bonus recipes from Mr.
Bittman et al.), but the main idea is to be able to search the
cookbooks that you have chosen according to your personal tastes
and experience.
Being part of the this could be a selling point for cookbooks.
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+ In the mean time, you could probably xerox the indexes in all your books and put them in a 3 ring binder.
An alphabetical index by recipe indicating which book would be much nicer, though. Maybe you could pay some kid on summer break to enter the indexes in excel, sort them, and print it out for you? |
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(You would have to do some data entry, sorting, and reprinting if you bought a new cookbook, though). |
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//(You would have to do some data entry, sorting, and reprinting if you bought a new cookbook, though)// |
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With modern technology it is a trivial process to merge reference books, add your own entries and create short indexes of all the recipies tried, made, failed, gone overbudget, came out underdone etc etc. Why do we not have it ? (Similarly for a button on the fridge to tell you if there is any semblance of hope for constructing an appetizing meal from what it contains). |
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[Zimmy] It would take some time. Julia Child's "The Way To
Cook" has about 2,500 index entries, and Bittman's "How to
Cook Everything" has over 4,200. We have over 40
cookbooks, so at a conservative 1,000 entries per index,
we're looking at some 40,000 entries, but probably much
more. |
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But thank you for the excellent idea on the 3-ring binder. I
believe I'll do just that, with index tabs by cuisine, until
technology catches up. |
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A scanner, OCR and a little format massaging should glean a text file you can import into a spreadsheet |
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I like the idea of a site that gives you recipes for whatever ingredients you have on hand. Type in the ingredients you have, and the quantities you have them in, and get a list of recipes back. Would certainly save on the shopping. |
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As far as this idea, there's just one problem, and it's the same problem shared by a lot of other such sites and apps. None of the books you have in your home would be listed. |
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I downloaded a really popular and neat-sounding app for my phone that uses the camera to scan barcodes on products and search local stores to get the best price. But NONE of the stores in my area ever show up! I always get that damned "no results found" message. |
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I mean, it reads the barcode and displays the product name, serial number and manufacturer, as well as a photo of the product. I just (literally, a few seconds ago) scanned the barcode on a can of Pledge furniture polish, which I bought just a few weeks ago at a Wal Mart less than 2 miles away, and the results show 16 web sources that sell it in bulk, but 0 local. And I know Wal Mart, Albertsons, Safeway, and several other stores around here carry the stuff. And this is a pretty big city, too. I fear your proposed site would suffer from the same limitations. |
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