The Family Cookbook Project

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  • Subscribe to the New Family Cookbook YouTube Channel

    Subscribe to the New Family Cookbook YouTube Channel

    Our job at Family Cookbook Project is to make the process of creating your own personal cookbook as easy as possible for you, our editors.

    That’s why we recently added the new “How-To” section of FamilyCookbookProject.com with step-by-step directions to some of your most common requests. You’ll find it the second option in the black navigation bar along the top of every page of the site.

    However we also know that seeing can be easier to understand  that reading. That is why we have started the new Family Cookbook Project YouTube Channel.

    We have started creating a series of video walk throughs to help you see how some of the tools are used in FamilyCookbookProject.com.  Here are the first videos in the How To playlist:

    • How to get started  – This tutorial walks you through the steps needed to create your FamilyCookbookProject.com account and takes a quick look at your editors account.
    • Editor Homepage Intro – Take an introductory video tour of the family Cookbook Project editor’s homepage and see all of the options available to create your own personal cookbook.
    • How to select a cookbook cover – Family Cookbook Project has an entire library of professionally designed cookbook covers that you can use on your custom cookbook. This tutorial show you have to select the cover that is right for you. Future tutorials will cover how to create a custom cover for your personal cookbook.
    • How To Use Custom Categories – Custom Categories allow Family Cookbook Project editors to change the default recipe categories in their cookbook to be personalized for their needs. It offers the flexibility to create your own custom recipe book the way you want it to appear.

    In addition to the How To videos, we also have a Features and Benefits Playlist which will show videos we use to promote FamilyCookbookProject.com and show why creating a custom recipe books is a great idea. Here are the first videos in the Features and Benefits playlist:

    Please let us know how you like these videos and what topics you’d like to see covered. Also you can help us by subscribing to the FamilyCookbookProject.com YouTube Channel and have any new videos delivered directly to your video feed.

     

     

     

    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 Introduces New “How To” Center

    Family Cookbook Project Introduces New “How To” Center

    Family Cookbook Project answers hundreds of emails a week with basic questions on how to do various aspects of creating a family cookbook. So we came up with the idea to put all of those answers in one place.

    Welcome to the new Family Cookbook Project Editor Education Center. Here you will find the answer that age-old question “How do I…”.

    When you don’t know how to do something, start here and get specific instructions on how to accomplish most aspects of creating the perfect family cookbook.

    You will find a link to the How To Center in the black navigation bar on every page of 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!

  • 7 Steps to Create a Perfect Family Cookbook

    7 Steps to Create a Perfect Family Cookbook

    Creating a treasured family cookbook has never been easier. The Great Family Cookbook Project was developed to make the process easy to understand and accomplish.

    Here is an overview on the simple steps required to create a personalize family cookbook.

    Step 1: Complete account set up – Here you will complete your contact information and set up some basic information like your cookbook submission deadlines for your a cookbook account.

    Step 2: Invite contributors – Here you can invite friends and family members to contribute Recipes to your cookbook. If this is a personal cookbook you can skip this step.

    Step 3: Start adding recipes – UN your contributors add as many recipes as you want in your cookbook.

    Step 4: Send reminders to your contributors. Regular emails will help remind people to submit their recipes by the deadline.

    Step 5: Design your cookbook – Here you pick a color pick a layout format and determine what will appear in your cookbook.

    Step 6:  Add photos to your cookbook – Using our photo editor you can upload photos to your cookbook to specific recipes or sections.

    Step 7: Get your cookbook ready to print – Once all of your recipes are entered now it is time to lock your cookbook edit the recipes and order your cookbooks.

    Remember, you may be able to work on more than one step at a time. For example you can design your cookbook (step 5) while you are still adding recipes (Step 3). You can also skip Step 2 if you are working on your cookbook alone.

     

    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 does Family Cookbook Project Rate with you?

    How does Family Cookbook Project Rate with you?

    In today’s online world, independent ratings are how people judge the quality of a product or customer service before investing their hard earned funds to buy something and Family Cookbook Project is no different.

    We are always looking to grow our program to help individuals preserve family recipes for future generations. We get a lot of new customers from our existing Cookbook editors sharing their experience with family and friends and them signing up themselves.

    So one way you can help us is to tell your friends how they can take advantage of creating a personal cookbook on FamilyCookbookProject.com

    Another way to help is to leave a review on TrustPilot to help new customers see how our existing customers like our customer service.  TrustPilot is an independent service that rates companies.

    If you have a moment, would you mind rating us at TrustPilot.com?  It’s always helpful to hear good things from actual people using our site.

    https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.familycookbookproject.com

  • Family Cookbook Goes French and Spanish

    Family Cookbook Goes French and Spanish

    Have you ever wanted a recipe to make Étouffée or use a  jalapeño in a recipe in your family cookbook?

    We are pleased to announce that FamilyCookbookProject.com can now display both French and Spanish accented characters.

    Until now, inserting accented characters in your text resulted in question marks replacing the characters. Now you can use these characters in your title, contributor name, ingredient list, directions, and personal notes.

    Each field has a drop down menu for “Insert Characters”. When you need to use an accented character, simply click on the pull down menu and select the one you want. If you have a keyboard that uses these letters, they can be automatically included when you type them.

    French uses five different types of accented characters. In no particular order, they are:

    • ç – the cedilla (la cédille)
    • é – the acute accent (l’accent aigu)
    • â/ê/î/ô/û – the circumflex (l’accent circonflexe)
    • à/è/ì/ò/ù – the grave accent (l’accent grave)
    • ë/ï/ü – the trema (l’accent tréma)

    Spanish Letters and Accents include: á, é, í, ó, ú, ü, ñ, ¿, ¡

    The tool also allows you to insert special characters like degrees º, Trademark ™, Copyright © and common fractions like ½.

     

  • Follow Family Cookbook Project on Social Media

    Follow Family Cookbook Project 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!

  • Family Cookbook Project During the COVID-19 Crisis

    Family Cookbook Project During the COVID-19 Crisis

    Our hearts go out to anyone in our Family Cookbook Project.com community that have been affected by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, either through sickness, loss of a loss loved one, loss of employment, or the effects of social distancing. This affects all of us and only together will we rise above and beat this crisis.

    With the forced isolation brought on by social distancing and quarantines, we have seen an increase in the number of recipes being added to the system each day. Our system is designed to handle any increase in traffic with minimal impact to the user. We hope this also corresponds with an increase in trying new interesting family recipes since dining out options have been limited.

    As a Family Cookbook Project editor, here are some ideas to add a silver lining to this crisis.

    • Reach out to your contributors and ask them if they have any extra time to contribute a few recipes to your cookbook.
    • If you’ve already printed your cookbook, now is a good time to unlock it and ask contributors to start working on volume two.
    • Add to a recipe story. Family Cookbook Project.com offers an online ability to add comments to recipes that you’ve tried in memories that you have. Ask people to contribute their stories to the recipes they make and try.
    • Use your extra time to review for more than 50 professionally design covers available for your cookbook and get it ready for printing.
    • Create a specialty cookbook. Do you have a lot of dessert recipes or maybe ethnic recipes? Consider creating a small cookbook with just those recipes. These kind of cookbooks make great gifts.

    These are just some simple ideas to help you take your mind off of the difficult times we are experiencing and look forward to a brighter future.

     

    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!

  • Recipe Search Tool Update

    Recipe Search Tool Update

    One aspect of our FamilyCookbookProject.com website that always gets a lot of traffic is our Recipe Search Tool. This allows anyone to search for interesting recipes from thousands of family cookbooks that have not not been marked private.

    We are currently reworking the programming behind our recipe search. The database has grown to more than 2 million recipes and was effecting the  entire publishing system as editors were getting their cookbooks ready to print for Christmas.

    We hope to have the search tool back online shortly.

    In the mean time, you can use Google to search our recipes Here is an article How to Use Google to Search Within a Specific Website showing with easy to follow pictures on how to do it.

    https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Google-to-Search-Within-a-Specific-Website

     

  • Please Help Us Make FamilyCookbookProject.com Better

    Please Help Us Make FamilyCookbookProject.com Better

    Most of the innovations we incorporate into Family Cookbook Project come from our editors and contributors. In order to better gauge how people like our program and what they would like to see added, we ask all of our cookbook editors to take this 9 minute 2021 Cookbook Editor Survey to help us improve our offering. We will share the results of the survey on our blog later this year.

    We are also entering everyone who completes the survey into a drawing for a $100 AMEX Gift Certificate.

    Please click here to take the 2021 Family Cookbook Project Editor Survey.

  • Top Food For Though Blog Posts of 2020

    Top Food For Though Blog Posts of 2020

    Family Cookbook Project is very proud of our blog Creating A Family Cookbook Project. Each week we post articles on what’s new for Family Cookbook Editors, recipe writing hints, How to make a better family cookbook articles and general cooking tips for our readers.

    Here are the  most read articles of 2020:

    1) How To Scan Recipe Cards into a Family Cookbook

    2) Common Peppers at your Grocery Store

    3) 4 Family Cookbook Mistakes to Avoid

    4) How Many Recipes Should a Cookbook Have?

    5) Cost of Printing A Family Cookbook

    6) Family Cookbook App for iPhone and Android!

     

    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!