Creating a personal cookbook filled with your favorite family recipes is easy with FamilyCookbookProject.com
Even though it is easy, it is not without its challenges. To prepare you for starting your own family cookbook, we’ve decided to list some of them here.
1) You don’t know where to begin
The first step to create a wonderful family cookbook is to create an account on FamilyCookbookProject.com. Next start entering your recipes when you need a break look at some of the cookbook cover design options and recipe layout options. You’re now well on your way to creating your own treasured family Memento.
2) You’re not a Graphic designer
You don’t have to be with FamilyCookbookProject.com. We make available professionally design, cookbook covers, and recipe layouts that all you have to do is select, and the system will customize your cookbook with your choices.
3) You don’t have the time to enter recipes
FamilyCookbookProject.com offers a one-of-a-kind contributor invitation system so that you can invite others to submit recipes to your cookbook. If you have your recipes in electronic format already, or are taking them from a website, you can simply cut and paste them into our add a recipe for him.
4) Not all of your recipes are written down
Some recipes we have just made so many times that we don’t need a recipe. However, when we pass on, those recipes pass on with us. Wouldn’t it be much better to take the time to write down those recipes next time you make them so that future generations 10 enjoy that as well.
5) Getting others to get excited as much as you are
When you start a family cookbook and invite other family members to join in, they may not be as engaged as you’d like them to be in entering Recipes on a timely manner. Be sure to set a reasonable deadline. Send them reminder emails to keep it during the front of their mind FamilyCookbookProject.com has tools to boot to do both of these.
At the end of the day, creating a family cookbook is a labor of love that future generations will enjoy and appreciate.
Bill Rice is Founder and Co-Publisher of the Family Cookbook Project, a website that helps families and individuals collect, preserve and share food memories by creating their own printed personal cookbooks. He is the author of The Wellfleet Oyster Cookbook and the Cape Cod Cocktail Cookbook (Available on Amazon), both created using FamilyCookbookProject.com. He is also editor of the Donovan Family Cookbook, now it’s third printing.
Follow Family Cookbook Project on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest!