Looking for a fun project to get everyone in your family involved in, even if they don’t all live in the same town? Create a family cookbook with FamilyCookbookProject.com.

Family Cookbook Project started with my family sitting around a table, enjoying a wonderfully prepared meal were several family members contributed dishes. We all thought it would be great to have a family cookbook that we could all enjoy the recipes from others in the family.

The online program we created to create my family’s cookbook over 20 years ago has turned into a successful website used by hundreds of thousands of people to create their own families cookbooks

It is easy and fun to use. Here are some of the features get offers.

• A simple to use invitation tool that allows you to invite other members of the family to participate via email and submit recipes from anywhere.
• A library of professionally design covers for you to choose from. You also have the option to use a family photo or create your own cover.
• Predesigned recipe layouts that let you choose how your recipes appear. You also have the ability to customize these layouts for your specific needs.
• Recipe rating tool. Each recipe allows family members to pick between one and five stars how they like the recipe. It’s a great conversation starter.

While the recipe can tribute, or gets to add personal notes of why, the recipe is important to them, other family members could add to the story and write comments online of their thoughts and memories of that recipe. The stories are only online and don’t carry forward to the printed cookbook.

Can’t pick watch which cover you want? Use the cover voting tool and allow the contributors to help decide.

And there is an option for all contributors to receive emails with the new recipes entered. This is a great way to keep them motivated and adding their own recipes.

The best part of creating a family cookbook as a family project is when the cookbook is printed and everyone is amazed at how beautiful and timeless it is. It certainly is a worthwhile project.

To get started with your own families, personalize cookbook, go to FamilyCookbookProject.com

 

Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the Family Cookbook Project, the leading online cookbook publisher with a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed custom cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing and is an avid genealogist tracing his family back to the 1600’s.

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