Do you lose track of recipes you've picked out from cooking magazines?  Have you accidentally cooked the same terrible recipe because you forgot you tried it before?  Are you cooking the same old recipes because you forgot about or lost track of new ones you picked out?  Are you missing great recipes that you wanted to cook because they're buried in a pile of magazines somewhere? I know I have done all of these things - it's frustrating, it's annoying and it wastes my time!  That's why I'm really excited to announce that Project Foodie is here to help with our new Recipe Track & Tag.

Project Foodie recipe Track & Tag lets you easily keep track of recipes from your favorite cooking magazines.  The recipes are easy to find.  You can view them by individual magazine issues, by specific categories or by searching for an individual title.  But best of all you don't need to re-enter recipes and recipes from multiple magazine publishers are available, in one single place.  As of today you can keep track of recipes from Cooking Light, Bon Appétite, and Gourmet magazines.  We'll have Food & Wine recipes available soon and many others in the near future.  

Track & Tag is more than a recipe box.  You can also personalize the recipes you've tracked.   You can rate recipes, add public comments, add personal notes and most importantly add "tags".  What is a tag?  Well, a tag is a word or phrase that describes a recipe.  Tags help you organize and categorize your recipes so that you can find the recipes you want quickly.   For example, let's say you've picked out several recipes from the most recent issue of Cooking Light as recipes that you want to try.  If you tag these recipes with "try" then when you look at the recipes you've tracked you can easily find all of the recipes you want to try because they'll be grouped together under the "try" tag.  Tags allow you to describe recipes the way you see them!  Even better, when a new issue of a magazine comes up, you can look at that issue's recipes on Project Foodie and easily tag the recipes you're interested in.

Each recipe can have as many tags as you want and you can change the tags whenever you want.  Going back to one of the recipes you tagged as "try".  What happens after you've cooked it?   If you liked the recipe maybe you'll want to tag it as "favorite".  You also may want to add other tags to the same recipe such as "quick-n-easy",  "husband-favorite", "kid-friendly", "hot&spicy", "cheesy" and so forth.  If you hated the recipe you could mark it as "DoNotMakeAgain" so that you'll never accidentally make it again!  Add as many tags as you want.  What about a tag for "DinnerWithBobAndMary" so that you don't cook the same thing twice when your friends Bob and Mary come over? In fact, the more tags you add the more personalized your recipe plate will be and the easier it will be to find what you want to make.

Track & Tag is just the beginning of the solutions to your daily food problems that Project Foodie plans to provide.  I invite you to give Track & Tag a try and let us know what you like, what you don't like, and what other things you want so that we can make Project Foodie into the food destination you're craving. We have many new features planned to make Track & Tag easier to use, but it's so useful already that I thought everyone should get a chance to start using it.

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kateg (Registered) 2007-11-17 06:49:02 I can't figure out how to view a recipe!

Viewing a recipe... pam (Publisher) 2007-11-17 11:06:59 Project Foodie Track & Tag presents recipe summaries including ratings, comments and tags. The actual recipe, however, remains on the publication's website. To view a recipe click on the 'View Recipe' link. It is located on the left side of the recipe summary just below the 'From' line and just above the 'All Tags' line. This will open a new window that will display the recipe from the publication's website.

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