The Family Cookbook Project

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  • Understanding your Editor account

    Understanding your Editor account

    If you are new to Family Cookbook Project, this is a great place to start to get to know your editor account.

    Editor’s Homepage

    For most people, your homepage is set to the “Quick Start” version which features a section for Alerts and Notices, Recipes, Layout and Design, Cookbook and Account Info, Contributors, Our Blog, and Cookbook Publishing.

    Each section has a number of “quick links” on the homepage to highly used pages, but more importantly, a green button that will take you to the full set of links for that section.

    The other option for homepage is the “Full Page”. This was our original homepage and shows your contributor welcome message and photo, a table of contents of recipes, a list of contributors, and a list of newest recipes.

    In the upper right corner of your editor’s homepage is a drop down menu to select either of these pages.

    Along the top of both Editor home page’s is a black navigation bar that contains important links that will follow you on all pages of the site:

    • Cookbook Home – Takes you back to your homepage.
    • Editor Activities – Links to take you directly to a section without having to go to the homepage.
    • Add Recipe – Here is where you add your own recipes.
    • View Recipes – Several choices to see the recipes in your cookbook
    • Edit Your Info – Here is where you can change your email and password. (usernames can not be changed once the account is set up).
    • Preview Book – Here you can create a PDF proof of your cookbook to view online or download.
    • Logout – This logs you out of your account.

     

     

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

     

  • Follow Family Cookbook On Social Media

    Follow Family Cookbook On Social Media

    Family Cookbook Project is not simply a cookbook Publisher, it’s a community where individuals and families gather and share recipes and food memories.

    We have created a system that makes it easy to gather and publish your family food traditions. However we also try to give valuable advice on how to make your cookbook better, how to create better recipes and even how to better understand cooking.

    There are many ways to learn how to build a better cookbook. Here are just some of the ways you can follow us on social media.

    Facebook

    Follow us on Facebook to get interesting recipes from our editors, ideas to improve your cookbook and general cooking tips.

    We also have specific pages created for barbecue recipes and cookie recipes, be sure to follow those pages if they are of interest.

    Pinterest

    Cooking and recipes are one of the largest categories being shared on Pinterest today and Family Cookbook Project has 18 different boards filled with great recipes and cooking tips and ways to improve your cookbook. Some of the more interesting recipe categories include Food Guys Like, Recipes from Around the World, Let-us Eat Salad, Big Shrimp Recipes and even What’s for Breakfast.

    Instagram

    Family Cookbook Project on Instagram is new to Instagram and will be sharing recipes and tips on this platform as well.

    Twitter

    If you don’t follow any of the other social media platforms then you will find us at Twitter with the same great information. Follow the hashtag #familycookbookproject

    YouTube

    Our newest entrance into social media is on YouTube where we post interesting videos on how to use Family Cookbook Project’s various online tools to create the perfect family recipe book that you can be proud of.

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

  • It’s Time To Start Thinking About Christmas

    It’s Time To Start Thinking About Christmas

    There is a reason why 90% of the cookbooks we print are submitted in late November and early December. Everyone knows that family cookbooks make great Christmas gifts! Everyone wants something personal and special to give to loved ones at the holidays and a family cookbook is makes the perfect gift.

    Why is Family Cookbook Project telling you this in August? Well cookbooks don’t just happen by themselves, they need to be have recipes entered, professionally design covers selected and everything proofread before they are submitted for printing.

    The time it takes to have your cookbook printed and shipped also more than doubles just before the holidays because of the sheer volume. So now is the time to put your efforts into your cookbook and have it completed and submitted for printing by the time September rolls around.

     

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

  • Meet the Guys Behind Family Cookbook Project

    Meet the Guys Behind Family Cookbook Project

    Family Cookbook Project launched 16 years ago and was developed by two friends who both love cooking and food. Bill Rice is the father of four and has worked on his family’s genealogy for more than three decades. Over a wonderful summertime family meal on Cape Cod, Bill and some of his family decided to create a family cookbook. Bill turned to his long time friend and programming expert Chip Lowell to develop a simple website to facilitate the project. The site was such a hit with Bill’s family, the two decided to offer it access to other families looking for an opportunity to create a lasting family heirloom.

    Both Bill and Chip brought a strong understanding of web development, marketing and the need for top notch customer service to help the development of Family Cookbook Project.

    Bill Rice is an entrepreneur and the President of the Web Marketing Association. He brings a strong marketing and usability focus to the development of the website and it’s products. He also has written much of the text for the site and many of the blog posts (including this one!). He is an avid photographer and a senior contributor on the TripAdvisor website.

    Chip Lowell is the technology guru behind the programming of Family Cookbook Project. He is also the VP of Business Development and Client Care at ACUMEN Corporation, based in Richmond, Virginia.  ACUMEN provides expertise in implementing the SAP Business One ERP platform for inventory intensive businesses like distributors and manufacturers in the mid-Atlantic area. Chip is also a grill master and loves to spend his free time (if he had any) in his back yard with his wife Sally trying new recipes on his Big Green Egg grill/smoker.

    In 16 years, we have had more than 125,000 cookbook editors use our system to collect and create online cookbooks for their family, friends, church, school, group or as a fundraiser. More than 300,000 contributors have submitted over 2.1 million recipes so far and hundreds of new recipes are added every day.

    So when you wonder why all of our customer service is usually done via email, it’s because we both have day jobs. However, Family Cookbook Project is a passion of ours. We love to be able to help promote the concept of personalized cookbooks for families and fundraising efforts.

    If you don’t already have an account, make your own personalize cookbook at www.FamilyCookbookProject.com.

     

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

  • 600 BBQ Recipes

    600 BBQ Recipes

    So we thought, wouldn’t be cool to pick a category and show all  the recipes titles with links to the recipes.

    so we did. The first one was Pies.

    Here are 600 BBQ recipes for you to enjoy.

    I bet there will be a lot of grilling and smoking this weekend! I know I will!

     

    Bill Rice loves to grill and smoke meat and seafood and is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

     

  • New Keyword Index Now Available

    New Keyword Index Now Available

    FamilyCookbookProject.com recently introduced a new set of index pages which are based on keywords that can be added to recipes.

    Previously, indexes were available for lists of recipes to appear in the back of your cookbook sorted by combinations of recipe title and contributor. Now, you can add specific keywords to your recipes and have an index that lists the recipes by that keyword.

    • Index by Index Terms only with Recipe Titles
    • Index by Recipe Titles and Index Terms Alphabetically

    For example, I am working on a cocktail cookbook for my family. I added the ingredients to the keyword field separated by commas (page 65 above). This allowed me to create a cookbook that showed all of the recipes that contained that specific ingredient. The other option is page 68. This shows the recipes and keywords followed by the pages on which they appear.

    When adding a new recipe, you’ll find a new field for keywords that will be used to generate this index.

    For your existing recipes you need to edit them and add the information to the keyword field.

  • Preserving Cherished Food Memories with a Family Cookbook

    Preserving Cherished Food Memories with a Family Cookbook

    Back when I was in my youth, I loved my Gram Helen’s cooking. She made thing that my mother did not. However, when she passed in 1993, most of her recipes went with her. I can still remember her meatloaf with a can of Cream of Mushroom soup on it, but for the life of me it never comes out the way I remember when she made it.

    So a decade later, my family and I were sitting around a table and decided to create a family cookbooks so all of the recipes we loved would be available to every member of the family today and more importantly, preserved for future generations. Since my family was all over the country, I had my high school friend help me create a website that became the great Family Cookbook Project.

    FamilyCookbookProject.com makes it easy to create a printed personal cookbook filled with your own recipes. Our program has helped thousands of individuals organize recipes, provide professionally designed covers and recipe layouts and automatically creates a table of contents and index of recipes for beautiful printed cookbooks. We make it easy and fun to create your own cookbook.

    My mom with our family cookbook she created.

    Family Cookbooks help preserve family memories and food traditions for future generations. There is nothing like seeing a handwritten recipe from a family member that you remember or even never met, but who’s recipe is still used today.

    Here are some tips from Family Cookbook Project:

    • Often collection of recipes in the form of a recipe box, magazine and newspaper clippings, or cookbooks with pages marked is a great place to start creating your cookbook.
    • For those recipes that you never wrote down because you made them so many times you knew it by memory, make it again and this time write it down step by step as you make it.
    • Measure the ingredients! Even if you use a “handful” of something, take a handful and put it into a measuring cup and write it down before throwing it into the pot.
    • Remember to write personal notes about why this recipe was important, who gave it to you or any special memories of meals that it was served. My mothers Chicken Supreme will always remind me of her serving at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding.
    • Including lots of photos is also a great way to make your special cookbook and help preserve the special memories.

    Remember, behind every recipe you love is a story you want to share.

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

  • How To Get Your Cookbook Ready To Print

    How To Get Your Cookbook Ready To Print

    So you’ve collected your recipes, entered them in the cookbook, written your introduction and made all of you are design selections. Now you’re ready to print your cookbook.

    Lock Your Cookbook

    The first step in getting ready to publish a cookbook is to go to the publishing center in your editors account and lock your cookbook. There are three levels of luck in your cookbook:

    • Level one locks contributors for making changes. Once you start editing, you don’t want people adding new recipes or changing things that you’ve already edited. Checking this box prevents this.
    • Level two stops all changes by contributors.
    • Level three locks the cookbook completely and now you’re ready to submit to print.

    Once you locked your cookbook from contributor changes now is the time to read everything and check for typos

    Proofread your introduction

    Print out your narrative and give it to someone else to read. Often it is difficult to proofread your own work and allowing someone else to do it will find things that you would mess.

    Review all of the recipes

    Look for ingredients that are listed but not included in the directions or ingredients in the indirect and directions that are not included in the ingredients list.

    Make sure the directions seem complete.

    Check the layout

    Go to the box that says preview your cookbook in the black navigation bar in your editors account. Here you can either download a PDF of your cookbook or use our 3-D preview tool.

    Here you are checking for how pages break. If you find a page with only a word or two, maybe you can shorten version directions to make that recipe just a little shorter.

    The changes you make here will determine how your cookbook will be printed. However it looks in your final PDF preview, is how it will look when your cookbook is printed.

    Place your order

    Now that your cookbook looks exactly the way you want it, it’s time to order.

    On the ordering page you’ll see the number of recipes you’ve entered, and the number of pages in your cookbook. This is what will determine the cost of your cookbook along with the number of color photos.

    Remember that the more copies of your cookbook you are order, the less the price per book will be. This is because the set up charges are spread out over more copies of the cookbook.

    Once you’ve calculated your price, you need to enter your shipping address and click submit. This places your order with our publishing system. You then will be directed to a link that will allow you to pay online or you can send a check drawn on a US bank for payment.

    One frequent question is can cookbooks be sent to more than one address. Currently you would need to place an order for each delivery address.

    Once you’ve placed your order you can expect your cookbooks to arrive in 2 to 3 weeks. However during our busiest times of the year, it could take longer. if you want your cookbooks in time for Christmas, the deadline for ordering is November 30, however do not wait until the last minute if you can.

     

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

     

  • One Happy Cookbook Editor

    One Happy Cookbook Editor

    We love to get feedback and comments from our FamilyCookbookProject.com editors when they finally receive the printed cookbook that they have worked on for so long.

    Here is another comment we recently received from Karen in Iowa:

    Thank you so much for publishing my family cookbook.   It was so much fun typing up my mother and mother-in-law’s recipes and giving them to my family as a Christmas present this past year.  Your company was so easy to work with and the website was great!   Very self-explanatory and simple to navigate. Thank you for this opportunity!

    Thank you for sharing Karen!

     

     

     

    Bill Rice is founder and Co-Publisher of the Great Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect and share food memories through customized printed cookbooks filled with treasured recipes. Follow us on Facebook and Pinterest!

  • Family Cookbook Project Recognized As Outstanding Mother’s Day Gift

    Family Cookbook Project Recognized As Outstanding Mother’s Day Gift

    The media has begun to recognize that Family Cookbook Project makes a wonderful Mother’s Day Gift for the person who fed us for so many years. A cookbook filled with Mom’s favorite recipes, memories and photos  in one beautiful printed cookbook to be passed down for future generations.  That would make a truly unique Mother’s Day gift that would be remembered for a long time.

    To celebrate our mothers, we’re offering 60% off of lifetime membership Gift Certificates through Mother’s Day, so head to www.FamilyCookbookProject.com today to get the best gift for your momma and create a lifetime of memories!

    US Weekly Magazine

    Available on most grocery store check out lines, this publication has a circulation of more than 2,500,000 readers. Family Cookbook Project was included in their Mother’s Day Gift Guide (see image above). US Weekly Magazine, May 3, 2021, pages 58-59

    The Luxe List Website

    https://luxelistreviews.com/fab-mothers-day-finds-with-doorstep-delivery/

     

    This Lady Blogs Website

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    WFLA-TV, Tampa

    https://www.wfla.com/daytime/marvelous-for-mothers-day/

     

    11Alive-TV, Atlanta