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Feed your face at Open Source Food

Open Source Food
When we first wrote about Open Source Food, we said we loved the idea but the site needed some love. Well, it seems that OSF's creator, Jon Yongfook Cockle, thought the same thing because he's overhauled the whole enchilada and it's tastier than ever.

Navigation is much more intuitive and background is minimalist so pictures of the delicious dishes really stand out (warning: some of the food pictures will make you want to lick your screen). More than just a Web site, it's a social network and members are encouraged to share photos, recipes, and meal ideas . Of course, tagging, voting, and commenting are also part of the fun.

The thing we really like about this site is that there are plenty of basic recipes for novices -- butter baked cabbage, chocolate chip cookies -- along with a ton of recipes for advanced cooks. Since the site's members are all over the globe, OSF also has the international flair thing going on. Hot Thai fish curry, anyone?

Bottom line: if you can't find a fabulous recipe somewhere on this site, then you're not really trying.

Filed under: E-mail, Google

Need a spam recipe? Just check your Gmail spam box

spam recipes
How often have you found yourself with a can of Spam and no good recipe for Spam Breakfast Burritos, Spam Swiss Pie, or Spam Hashbrown Bake? It happens to us all the time. And while we could go search any of the thousands of recipe sites that populate the internet, Google's decided to make it easy to find all your Spam-related recipes in one place: your Gmail box box.

Now, we're well aware that the fine folks at Hormel don't approve of the practice of calling junk email messages "Spam." But since that's pretty much what everyone calls them, Google's making the best of a bad situation.

You see, there's a little space above the Gmail toolbar that Google typically uses to share "web clips." Typically web clips are links to news headlines and blog posts. You know, useful stuff. But the last thing you're usually looking for in your Spam filter are useful links. So Google had a choice: eliminate the space when you're viewing your spam filter or have a little fun. The Gmail team chose the latter.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0

CookThink: Discover recipes based on cravings

CookThink
Ever have a craving for fish, but no recipe handy for turning your craving into dinner? CookThink can help. Well, almost. The idea is that you enter an ingredient, dish, cuisines, or other keyword and CookThink will find an appropriate recipe, some cooking tips, and a list of alternate recipes that might meet your needs.

As a keyword/tag based recipe finder, CookThink is excellent. But it's a bit disingenuous to say that you can really find recipes that meet your cravings. Because honestly, when was the last time you found any recipe online that didn't require running out and picking up a few extra ingredients? And if you've got a craving for miso soup, but no miso paste in the house, there's a pretty good chance your craving will have passed by the time you get back from the grocery store.

But CookThink is still a great site. When you enter your first word, a tag cloud pops up suggesting related terms. Or you can just click the ingredient, dish, cuisine, and mood buttons for a list of suggested tags. Each recipe has an attractive photo and list of other dishes that would compliment the meal.

[via AppScout]

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Beta

Make your own cookbook with TasteBook

TastebookSay you've got a few dozen recipes bookmarked from various websites. Then there's that stack of recipes you inherited from mom. You could print out your online recipes and slap them in a binder along with your index card collection. Or you could use TasteBook to create a professional-looking cookbook.

The site just launched a public beta. You can save recipes from partner sites including Epicurious and add your own. When you're done, you can order a printed copy of a 100-recipe book for $35. If you have fewer than 100 recipes, you still have to pay $35, but you get a credit toward future recipe books.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Web services, Social Software

Open Source Food: a social network for food lovers


MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster are great if you're looking for general interest social networking. But Open Source Food shows that sometimes niche is where it's at.

Open Source Food is a community site for food lovers and cooks, both amateur and professional. If you're looking for a little inspiration, you can browse through the beautifully photographed images or search the site for recipes. It's a little baffling that you have to click on the "food" tab to get a search bar, but since the site is as focused on community as it is on food, maybe that makes some sense.

Registered users can upload images and recipes, comment on others' recipes, ask questions, or add suggestions. Open Source Food is like a Web 2.0 cookbook, and we mean that in the best possible way.

[via AppScout]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Web services, Social Software

Move over Martha, its time for GroupRecipes

grouprecipesTired of the same old meals you always seem to make? Looking for something good and different to cook tonight besides what Martha suggests?

GroupRecipes is a place for food lovers to congregate and share recipes through a useful online resource. It's aimed at food lovers everywhere, and promotes the interaction with other users through showing off creations, and meeting people that might have the same food interests.

GroupRecipes users can also share places to eat, organize recipe collections through a Recipe Manager, and create their very own cooking TV show.

[Thanks Eliot!]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Text, Video, News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Yahoo!, Freeware

Yahoo launches their food site

Yahoo Food
That's right, Yahoo now has their brand spankin' new food site up with a recipe search, restaurants, celebrity appearances, videos, and segments of the quintessential Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart. One feature I like is the "Recent Activity" area that will keep track of the latest things you've searched for, much like Amazon's "the page you made" feature. Yahoo Answers is even in on the new food fun with food questions and answers. The site's content doesn't interest me much, besides the technology in use here, but my wife will love it. My wife will download about half the recipes and make me eat most of them so I don't really have a choice, but perhaps you can save yourself if you hurry, run!

P.S. For the record, my wife is an amazing cook (and she made me say that, or she says I don't get dinner). Cheers!

Filed under: Fun, Web services

Extratasty: Drinking the Web 2.0 way

ExtratastyThere are a lot of drink recipe sites and some of them will give you a list of drinks you can make based on your list of what your bar is stocked with. However, none of them were quite able to get it right until Extratasty. From skinnyCorp, the makers of Threadless, Extratasty has all the Web 2.0 fixins: pastel colors, big fonts, tags, RSS feeds, and AJAX. But beyond all that, it's social software that works really well. Its "My Bar" Google-Suggest-alike interface makes it easy to create a list of what ingredients you have, and it's smart enough to know that, for example, Pepsi and Coke can be substituted in most recipes, or that Goldschlager and Firewater are both cinnamon schnapps. It also suggests common bar items that you probably have but forgot about, like water or lemon juice. Drinks that you can make with what you've got can be displayed in a nice recipe card list, and of course you can rate drinks, leave comments, and even suggest alternate recipes. Brilliant!

Filed under: News

Slashfood joins the Weblogs, Inc. family

SlashfoodPlease help us welcome Weblogs, Inc.'s newest blog, Slashfood, to our big family. Slashfood, as perhaps you've already guessed, is a blog for those who love food, be it eating, preparing, having it prepared for you, or just wandering the aisles of the grocery store, dizzy with awe. They're off to a great start, with posts like Top 25 food hacks, The Cookie Sutra, and Spaghetti Eating 101. And, if you're a foodie yourself and can write a blog post, they're looking for bloggers to join their team.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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