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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

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.

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!

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

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.