The Hartford Courant newspaper ran a very interesting article on January 17, 2008 by MELISSA A. TRAINER.
The article was very interesting and I thought I would offer the opening here, but you should read the entire article at the Courant website.
Here it is:
A recipe box jammed with handwritten treasures is about as quaint in this digital age as a pen-and-paper diary kept under lock and key.
Still, grandma’s recipe box never had a server problem. And she certainly didn’t risk having her favorite cookie recipe end up in someone else’s cookbook.
As food websites grow in popularity and sophistication, more home cooks are taking advantage of online features that allow them to create and share digital recipe boxes. Users and administrators of these sites — among the best known are Allrecipes.com, Epicurious.com and Recipezaar.com — say they offer easy, secure, space-saving ways to store family recipes.
Online Recipes Gather Compliments
But what happens when the site’s server crashes? What happens when you die and take your password with you? And what rights do you give up when you upload your family’s favorite recipes?
Here’s what you should know before you upload that recipe:
Click here to see the entire article.
I though this was very interesting because the Family Cookbook Project also allows contributors to mark a recipe private or public. The best think about Family Cookbook Project is that at the end of the project there is a printed and bound cookbook to use when you don’t want to go online.