"Hi! I delivered our family cookbooks
over the holiday weekend at our family reunion. Everyone was ecstatic! They
loved the cookbooks. They loved it so much they would like to start another
book/add recipes to the website. I renewed our annual membership in March.
I wondered if I could upgrade to Lifetime status? Many of our family
members use the website directly to pull up recipes when they are cooking.
I should have gotten the lifetime membership in the first place!"
--Rachel Benjamin, Klick Family Cookbook
"Let me tell you how great this
program is. I was able to scrounge together recipes that have been together
in my family for 200 years or more. By publishing this cook book, A Real
Southern Comfort, you helped me preserve a great piece of family history.
This cook book saved a lot of what my family was made up of. In this day and
time of fast foods and microwave cooking it would be easy to let all this
family history slide by and be forgotten. But not now, not anymore. We have
sealed up it's place for generations to come. It is written and will
continue for eons to go. This is no small matter. Thank you for all you have
done."
--Mike Wallace, A Real Southern Comfort
"Thank you so much for your help with
my book. I received my order last Friday and they are beautifully done. I am
so pleased!"
--Marilyn Locicero, NOW YOU'RE COOKING ---AGAIN!
"I just received my finished cookbooks and they are fabulous! I have already
given out several copies and the comments I have received are great. The
cookbook is so much nicer than I had expected. I can't thank you enough for
this website. It is very user friendly and your service is without question
the best I have ever encountered. The ways that you allowed me to
personalize the cookbook and keep everything organized was so wonderful.
Someone commented that I even went to the work of creating an index--I had
to give all that credit it you. I am very proud of this endeavor and will
whole-heartedly recommend your website to anyone and everyone."
--Sherry Thompson, Mom's Recipe Box
"My entire recipe box is now entered in my family cookbook and I don't
have to look for hours just to find a recipe any more."
– Denise Wyer, Donovan Family Cookbook
"My sister-in-law calls all the time for recipes, now she just goes to our
online family cookbook and calls only when she has a question."
- Michelle Clark, Clark Family Cookbook
"We are planning another "big" family reunion in two years, 2010, and the
committee has had several requests of adding more recipes and doing another
mass printing of our family cookbook project. It was so cool to see people
at the reunion leafing through the pages and realizing what the book was all
about. All the work was definitely worth it for me; and I know you went out
of your way to help me make this a success. Thank you."
--DeeDee Duffy, DiSalvatore Family Cookbook
"I LOVE the website...it is so easy to use and the e-blast feature has made
managing this project a breeze!"
--Susie Dvorak, The Kadavy Family Cookbook
"You asked for ideas about motivating family members to contribute. We
played recipe bingo. Recipe #150 was a BINGO and won $50.00. That may be
pricey for smaller cookbooks but I think even $10 would get people to keep
looking and adding recipes. It really did work for our cookbook."
--Gayle Villarreal, Editor of A Pinch of This 'N a Pinch of That Recipes.
"My family and I created "Kitty's Kids Sweet Memories ", it was a great
project for us and with the help of your web site it was very simple. We
were all very excited when the books came in and they could not have turned
out any better."
--Anne Moustafa , Kitty's Kids Sweet Memories
"I just wanted to let you know that this has been a very special Christmas
for family and I (the women folk mainly); because I think that the cookbook
will be wonderful when we all get around to contributing. (Some are slower
then others). May this continue! Thanks for the great site. I look forward
to getting the finished product when they have contributed; it could take a
while…"
--Karen Bittner - Olinda Victoria Australia Cookbook.
"The Step by Step Cookbooks, by The STEP Foundation, arrived yesterday. They
are beautiful. All the late nights of typing were, indeed, worth it!
Everyone to whom I've shown them so far wants to purchase one. I and some
friends are hoping to get another cookbook together in the spring, to aid in
our fundraising for Relay For Life.
Thank you so much for your help!"
--Name withheld by request
"I just received our cookbooks and I must tell you I am so very happy with
them. They are beautiful. It is a bittersweet happiness, since we lost our
matriarch three hours after I submitted the cookbook for printing. You were
good enough to allow me to put in a dedication page in after I submitted it.
This was the easiest project I have ever done. The end product is wonderful.
I am now looking for members of our other families to start another one.
Again, thank you for your kindness, patience and your great site. What a
wonderful way to immortalize your family recipes and history. "
--Buffy Hunt - Long Family of Decatur County Cookbook
"Just wanted to let you know our cookbooks were received in time to
distribute at Thanksgiving. Everyone thought they looked great. Thanks for
creating such a great tool for us to use to create our cookbook. And thanks
for being so responsive to all my many questions during the process."
--Annette Ahart, 2008 Ahart Family Reunion Cookbook
"Just wanted to thank you for all the work you did on our DiSalvatore Family
Cookbook! The cookbook looks great! Everyone is still raving about it and
I'm taking more orders for a second printing sometime in the near future. I
even have people who are not family asking for copies of it!"
--DeeDee Duffy, DiSalvatore Family Cookbook
"You asked for ideas about motivating family members to contribute. We
played recipe bingo. Recipe #150 was a BINGO and won $50.00. That may be
pricey for smaller cookbooks but I think even $10 would get people to keep
looking and adding recipes. It really did work for our cookbook. "
--Gayle Villarreal, Editor of A Pinch of This 'N a Pinch of That Recipes.
"I look forward to this project!! What a great concept. I am in Phoenix and
in charge of a cookbook for my family in South Dakota. What a great time
saver."
--Marla Ringling, Brumbaugh Family Cookbook
"This website is just SO EASY to use and it has been great fun for the whole
family."
--Annie L. Cisneros, Joy of the Repast: Favorite Recipes of Family and Friends
"I arrived at my parents last night and the cookbook arrived on the 21st as
promised. I am THRILLED!!! I just wanted to say thanks for everything. The
cookbook looks great and I am so excited to present it at my family reunion
today."
--Name withheld by request
"Thanks again for all your support, guidance and most of all your
willingness to go the extra mile so that I received the cookbook in time.
You guys should be congratulated on a well done program."
--Karen Sword, The Sword Family Cookbook
"Thank you again for all your help. I guess you can tell I'm
computer-challenged, but your web-site made it possible for me to do
something I've been wanting to do for years!! I'm excited that it's finally
finished!"
--Marilyn Locicero, NOW YOU'RE COOKING ---AGAIN!
"Great program and so easy to use! "
--Marilynn Vannucci, Our Cookbook
"I love collecting cookbooks and this is the first time I’ve created one
myself, I’m very Excited about it."
--Gail New, Gail's Kitchen Cookbook Vol.1
"I have to again say, I am so excited about your cookbook program! I have
been looking for at about 5 years for software to purchase or use that would
allow me to do a project such as this for my own family. Because I use
computers on a day to day basis, I know the possibilities, and yet your
program is the only one that provides all the opportunities I had in mind.
Thank you for making my personal dream come true! I have a very long way to
go before I can finish what I have started, but it certainly looks do-able
at this point. I told my sister about my project and got her excited as
well. She too is seriously considering the same."
--Elaine Dacke
"LOVE the cookbook!! My dad gave it to me for Christmas. I saw some great
recipes I'll be making for New Year's and saw some I was haunted with as a
child-Mince-dad loved it so much we ate it at least twice a week. Maybe I'll
have something to add to the next book. Thanks for all your hard work."
--Jennifer and Family
"I have to say that the more I worked
with our family recipes on your website, and noticed the "personal notes" -
that's when I realized all of our family stories could come into play. It's
a wonderful way to document family traditions in the kitchen. The one "down
side" if you could even characterize it that way is that many family
members, once seeing the cookbook, mentioned to me they didn't really know
it was going to be as great as it is. They didn't realize I was looking for
each individual's favorite recipes and any stories that go along with it. I
guess that's part of the learning curve when taking on a project like that.
Many family members want to add more recipes."
--DeeDee Duffy, DiSalvatore Family Cookbook
