News 2006

Season’s Eatings, Calories Shmalories! But thank goodness Christmas only comes once a year!
December 25, 2006
There’s no way to estimate that without doing an un-merry amount of ciphering involving many number facts, including your sex, age, height, weight, how much energy it takes to run your basic metabolism, the calorie heft of each and every ingredient in every item you ingest, how much energy it takes to digest that food, which activity you do and how intensely you do it...Without eating breakfast or an evening meal, we’ve had something like 3,317 calories (going by estimates from Food Facts labels, Allrecipes.com, the Calorie Control Council and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Nutrition Database).

Come Together
December 25, 2006
Over the last few years, privately held companies have had a hard time providing their investors an exit strategy, either through an initial public offering or a sale. Despite this, some companies were able to hunker down, improve revenues and become profitable, creating a glut of attractive businesses ripe for the picking...Take Allrecipes.com, which allows home cooks to upload recipes to the Web site, and sells advertising to those trying to hit the female demographic between the ages of 25 and 54.

Food Notes
December 21, 2006
Last-Minute Ideas: If you still need a few ideas for food gifts or new kinds of cookies for the cookie tray, check out Allrecipes.com. The gift section (allrecipes.com/HowTo/Festive-Food-Gifts/detail.aspx) features everything from cookie mixes in a jar and pet treats to homemade liqueurs and condiments...The cookie category includes a gingerbread section with instructions for cookies and houses.

The Gadgeteer’s Guide to Christmas
December 2, 2006
Help is at hand for such high-tech souls...For leftovers, use the ingredient search on Allrecipes.com for something tastier than turkey fricassee.

Side Dish; Food Spending: Put Yours on a Sensible Diet
November 29, 2006
This eggnog recipe contains pasteurized egg substitute and skim milk, as well as artificial sweetening in the pudding mix. It’s still a treat, served cold, and you can have two 1/2-cup servings for just 132 calories. That is just about 200 fewer calories than you’d have for the same amount of full-fat eggnog. It may not be quite as wonderful as the real thing, but I’ll bet it still tastes pretty good with Christmas cookies...Source: Allrecipes.com.

Last Minute Sides, Leftovers, Even Local Cookbook Favorites
November 22, 2006
11th hour help: Here’s where to turn with your Thanksgiving cooking questions...Allrecipes.com: Thanksgiving guide includes remedies for common kitchen calamities...

Bring Only Potluck Food that Travels Well
November 22, 2006
Going to grandmother’s house becomes less than a delightful excursion when you spend the drive balancing a whole turkey on your lap, praying the gobbler doesn’t maim you with hot grease...Fear not, brave potluckers. Jerry Gulley, editor-in-chief of Allrecipes.com, which offers more than 35,000 recipes, shared what you should know before you volunteer a dish...

Check Your Tattered Turkey Day List Now (just in case)
November 21, 2006
If you’re cooking at home, put on some tunes and get ready. I’ve pulled together a day-before list after collecting tips from my own experience and from pros at Web sites such as oceanspray.com, finecooking.com, allrecipes.com, epicurious.com, jennieo.com, butterball.com and foodnetwork.com. (All offer help for planning, creating and last-minute cooking—even last-minute cooking disasters.)

Health Care Costing Arm, Turkey Leg
November 21, 2006
Americans keep getting fatter, and so do their health-care bills...In a recent survey by Allrecipes.com and USA Weekend magazine of 1,600 respondents, 77 percent said they believe parents are to blame for childhood obesity and 85 percent said they believe individuals are responsible for their weight—not McDonald’s.

A Cuban Touch with Turkey
November 21, 2006
Allrecipes.com, a favorite Web site whose mission is described in its name, joined with USA WEEKEND magazine for America’s Top Recipe Contest. There were many categories in the competition, but right now, with two days left to Thanksgiving, only one matters: The Holiday Family Favorite category...The winner was a turkey! But not any turkey. Anel Schmidt, the $10,000 grand prize winner, offered her Cuban-inspired Turkey Mercedes and claimed the prize over cheesecake, mousse, a seafood soup and lamb.

Thanksgiving 101: Has It Been a Year Since You Last Roasted a Turkey or Made Stuffing?
November 20, 2006
Have more questions? Recipes www.allrecipes.com - 1,500 Thanksgiving-related recipes.

Tips to Keep Your Cool in the Kitchen
November 20, 2006
Thanksgiving is rife with potential pitfalls: birds that won’t thaw, lumpy potatoes with even lumpier gravy, side dishes that grow cold while you struggle to carve the turkey...“Thanksgiving is like theater,” says Jerry Gulley, editor-in-chief of the Allrecipes.com Web site...“If you want to avoid stress, stay out of the store the day before Thanksgiving,” advises Gulley. “Hit the market early, make a list and stick to it.”

Salty Brines Add Sweet Tenderness to Turkeys
November 19, 2006
This time, I used a 7-pound chicken and a simpler recipe from Allrecipes.com...Served on TV trays as we watched the parboiled Steelers attempt to beat the Denver Broncos, the chicken was a resounding success: Moist, tender, delectably seasoned, served with whipped potatoes purchased at my local farm market and gravy made from the savory drippings. Even I was pleased.

For Kid’s Sake: Make Holidays a Less Fidgety Affair
November 18, 2006
“The concept of having some kind of ownership over the holidays is important for kids,” says Jerry Gulley, editor-in-chief of Allrecipes.com, a popular home cooking and culinary advice Web site...

Holiday Help
November 16, 2006
Here’s where to turn with your Thanksgiving cooking questions: Allrecipes.com: Thanksgiving guide includes remedies for common kitchen calamities.

Food: Ona Woman Now Award-Winning Cook
November 16, 2006
Mother, wife, teacher, homemaker, waitress and now Bobbi Wiley of Ona can add award-winning cook to her resume. Wiley’s Chicken Chimichangas with Green Sauce recipe was named runner-up in the USA Weekend and Allrecipes.com food contest “super-quick” category.

Simplify Thanksgiving with Easy, Contemporary Menu
November 15, 2006
For those who do not particularly care for turkey and dressing, the usual Thanksgiving fare, the following recipes introduce a twist on the traditional favorites. This year, enjoy an easy, contemporary Thanksgiving, courtesy of Allrecipes.com.

Frugal Feasts: Even on a tight budget, you can make Thanksgiving Dinner a winner
November 15, 2006
Figure out what the absolute crowd-pleasers are and skip the rest...A recent survey by cooking Web site Allrecipes.com found that a little more than half of Americans polled wouldn’t mind if there wasn’t any gelatin jiggling on the Thanksgiving table this year.

The $10,000 Turkey
November 10, 2006
¡Muy delicioso! Find out why our judges awarded this bird the huge grand prize—and how you can make it, too. Plus, check out recipes from four runners-up.

Good To-Go; How to Find Healthful Takeout Food
November 9, 2006
... before you give in and order General Tso’s chicken or a large-pizza-double-cheese-and-pepperoni, consider this: Fast food doesn’t have to mean bad food. And it doesn’t have to mean the plain, shriveled baked potato or pre-made wilted salad, either. In a survey done by Allrecipes.com, 27 percent of respondents predicted that healthful takeout would be the hot trend of 2006, and it seems they’re right ...

Beyond the ‘children’s table’; Parental tactics for a peaceful Thanksgiving with the kids
November 8, 2006
Like the old adage that describes movie making, Thanksgiving Day often includes a lot of “hurry up and wait.” But many kids don’t like to hurry up and wait. They get hungry, especially if Thanksgiving meal is served when they don’t usually eat. They get bored or restless, and then idle hands can make mischief or messes. Even in the most relaxed families, children sometimes feel the weight of Thanksgiving expectations...“The concept of having some kind of ownership over the holidays is important for kids,” said Jerry Gulley, editor-in-chief of Allrecipes.com, a popular home cooking and culinary advice Web site ...

Survey Says...Why Do We Eat Junk? Here’s the Answer
November 8, 2006
... According to a new survey from Allrecipes.com and USA Weekend Magazine, 29 percent of respondents say they shun nutritional foods because of the cost. Another 28 percent say there’s no time to plan meals. Others say healthful foods taste bad or take too long to prepare. Some respondents lament that they don’t know how to cook those foods ...

Local Chef Cooks Up Tuna Recipe
November 8, 2006
... the 44-year-old Sweetbay chef concocted his own inspired recipe, a Wasabi Encrusted Tuna Steak dish that landed him a runner-up finish in the International category of the America’s Top Recipe Contest 2006, sponsored by USA WEEKEND and Allrecipes.com.

On the Fridge
November 8, 2006
Aimed at everyday cooks, the Yahoo Food home page hit the ground running last week with major media partnerships and a bright, easy-to-navigate format. The site features archived and current content from Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Every Day With Rachael Ray, Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Epicurious.com, Allrecipes.com, Reader’s Digest and Eating Well, with more to come.

Yahoo Serves Food
November 8, 2006
With online competition for eyeballs intensifying, Web portal Yahoo Inc. just launched a new site devoted to food that will feature videos and other content from celebrity chefs such as Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart...A database of thousands of recipes will be available through a partnership with allrecipes.com.

Lon on the shop, swap or chop
November 8, 2006
Shopping sites are doing the social-networking thing, just like so many other Web hotspots...Try out [similar site] Allrecipes.com.

Your Money
November 6, 2006
... if you ask today’s parents what’s most important in instilling good values in children, only 22 percent will mention “going to religious services” while a whopping 67 percent will cite “eating dinner as a family regularly.” (Even the do-gooder concept of volunteering chalks up only 12 percent in this latest poll from Allrecipes.com/USAWeekend).

Feed Your Head, Yahoo!
November 3, 2006
Yahoo! Food was launched yesterday, aiming to be the culinary destination of choice for hungry Internet users seeking recipes or celebrity chef commentary. The site is stocked with home entertaining tips from Martha Stewart Living as well as detailed meal ideas from the likes of Rachael Ray, Epicurious, and AllRecipes.com.

Yahoo Cooks Up Food Site
November 2, 2006
... The Web media giant is looking to create a new lifestyle business in a category that, while well-established in Internet terms, is largely fragmented among food industry players and niche recipe sites, with few big independent media players...Media partners include Martha Stewart Living, Wolfgang Puck, Everyday with Rachael Ray, Food & Wine, Epicurious, allrecipes.com, Cook’s Illustrated, Eating Well, Taste of Home, and Reader’s Digest.

Yahoo to Launch Web Site Devoted to Food
November 2, 2006
With online competition for eyeballs intensifying, Web portal Yahoo Inc. just launched a new site devoted to food that will feature videos and other content from celebrity chefs such as Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart...A database of thousands of recipes will be available through a partnership with allrecipes.com.

Yahoo to Launch Web Site Devoted to Food
November 2, 2006
With online competition for eyeballs intensifying, Web portal Yahoo Inc. just launched a new site devoted to food that will feature videos and other content from celebrity chefs such as Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart...A database of thousands of recipes will be available through a partnership with allrecipes.com.

Food 101: V is for Vegetables, Vegetables and More Vegetables
November 1, 2006
Don’t be afraid to experiment with the less common vegetables. Use fresh foods whenever possible; choose firm textures and bright colors. Try cooking them in a variety of ways, including some of the following recipes, courtesy of www.allrecipes.com.

Fish Tails
November 1, 2006
In addition to these recipes, there’s an ocean full of advice online about how to cook fish and seafood, including these sites...including Allrecipes.com.

Start Off the Season with Fun Appetizers
November 1, 2006
Welcome to November! Ready to cook? You know what’s ahead Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year’s. Get a leg up on your holiday preparations by heading to the All Recipes Web site at http://allrecipes.com and taking a stroll through its holidays page.

Smart Bite
November 2006
To avoid Turkey Day panic, go to Allrecipes.com and click on Avoid Thanksgiving Disasters in the section called Thanksgiving. You’ll find solutions for birds still frozen on feast day, burned gravy and soggy pie.

Inside the Kitchen with Area Chefs
October 27, 2006
... FAVORITE FOOD-RELATED WEB SITE: www.allrecipes.com ...

Survey Results
October 27, 2006
The nation’s obesity crisis may have experts eaten up with alarm, but participants in an exclusive USA WEEKEND Magazine scientific poll don’t seem to be worried. In fact, respondents in the 2007 America’s Kitchen survey, conducted with the website Allrecipes.com, seem content with their cooking, happy with their eating habits and stubbornly resistant to sacrificing in order to be svelte and healthy ...

Spice up seeds from pumpkins
October 25, 2006
Allrecipes.com, an online community of home cooks, offers in its Halloween section several sweet, spicy and salty recipes for pumpkin seeds. The section also includes tips on carving pumpkins and recipes for Halloween cookies, party drinks, pumpkin dishes and more. Visit allrecipes.com/Info/Holidays-and-Occasions/Holidays/Halloween/Main.aspx ...

Pumpkinmania
October 25, 2006
... A popular ingredient in Mexican cooking, pepitas are pumpkin seeds with the white hull removed. For recipe ideas, visit www.allrecipes.com and search for the article “roasting pumpkin seeds.”

Be Like Peter, the Pumpkin Eater
October 25, 2006
... Allrecipes.com has a convenient guide to baking with fresh pumpkin at allrecipes.com/HowTo/Baking-with-Fresh-Pumpkin/Detail.aspx It gives directions for baking, boiling or microwaving pumpkin to create puree for your baking recipes. It has a link to a related recipe (at allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Puree/Detail.aspx) that adds such helpful hints as how to drain your puree so that it has the same consistency as the canned variety ...

Ghoulishly Good Grub
October 23, 2006
Find other clever Halloween recipes at...allrecipes.com ...

By the Slice: Warm Up Your Fall by Making Apple Pie
October 11, 2006
... Many apple pie recipes will call for butter and/or shortening (which is made from vegetable oil) rather than lard (rendered and clarified pork fat, according to allrecipes.com.) ...

A Quick Byte: Cool Food Web Sites
October 9, 2006
This is an online cooking community that goes way beyond just recipes. Sure, you can do the basic search for “apple pie” or what have you, but you also can do an ingredient search, allowing you to put in what you have on hand and see what comes up...The site has articles, features different home cooks, and allows users to rate and review the recipes there. There are also handy features that let you adjust the recipe for a different number of servings. You even can choose what size to print the recipe to fit your recipe filing system.

Giving Thanks Online
October 7, 2006
Thanksgiving inevitably is about food..If you visit http://thanksgiving.allrecipes.com/ you are going to find a bounty of recipes...

Livin’ Country
September 29, 2006
... Allrecipes.com says the best baking apples have a good balance of sweet and tart, and their “flesh is dense,” which means they won’t give off too much water as they cook.

Kathleen Williams Miller’s Easter lemon drop mousse
September 27, 2006
Kathleen Williams Miller of Fallon, a teacher of gifted and talented children, is a finalist in America’s Top Recipe Contest sponsored by Allrecipes.com and USA Weekend. More than 9,000 home cooks entered five contest categories; five finalists were named in each. Miller made the cut in the Holiday Family Favorites category with her Easter lemon drop mousse, a family favorite. Miller said the recipe honors her grandmother, “who always used to carry lemon drops in her apron.” Grand prize is $10,000, and winners will be announced in the Nov. 10 issue of USA Weekend...

Your Toolbox
September 27, 2006
... This time Larry is a finalist in Allrecipes.com’s first-ever America’s Top Recipe Contest...in the Kid Pleasers category with his Quick Caribbean Quesadillas.

Perfect Pancakes
September 13, 2006
For fluffy, tender pancakes, allrecipes.com recommends mixing wet ingredients together first, then adding to the dry, whisking together gently. Too much mixing leads to tough pancakes. For super light and fluffy pancakes, beat the egg whites separately, and gently fold into the mixture. Replacing the liquid in the recipe with a carbonated beverage also makes pancakes light and tender.

Food News
September 1, 2006
FC Stat: 46% of Americans say their children tell them exactly what to pack in their school lunches

A Food Web Site, Spiced With Attitude
August 16, 2006
Though chow.com will have a test kitchen and has licensed recipes like those from Roy Finamore’s book “Tasty,” executives know they’ll never be able to match the libraries of Epicurious, the Food Network’s Web site, or the popular site allrecipes.com.

Ear’s to Summer: Now’s the Time to Enjoy Farm-Fresh Corn That Pops Off the Cob
August 16, 2006
Allrecipes.com has created a farmers market section, complete with recipes and a listing of farmers markets across the country on its Web site...Go to http://allrecipes.com/advice/feature/special/farmersmarket.asp for ideas using local produce.

Pair Cooks Up Care, Kindness at Kitchen
August 10, 2006
Vickie usually starts her menu planning by looking at the available food. She visits www.allrecipes.com to come up with recipes that use those ingredients. So if she has hamburger, rice and tomatoes, she may enter those ingredients on the Web site and search through the recipes. Then she multiplies the recipe—by 10 or 15, depending on the number of servings.

What’s Cooking
August 2, 2006
Choice sites: A few sites to whet your appetite...www.allrecipes.com...

Shopping Around
July 27, 2006
Shopping Around column evaluates three recipe Web sites; looks at Allrecipes.com, Recipezaar.com, and Snacksby.com...

Sweet Darlings
July 24, 2006
There are thousands of different varieties of cookies in existence. In fact, allrecipes.com lists more than 200 distinct recipes for the standard chocolate-chip cookie. After sorting through the myriad ingredients—chocolate, nuts, fruit, what have you—it is quite obvious an infinite amount of possible cookie creations await. While it would be impossible to sample them all, it’s not difficult to find the motivation to try.

Dishing with Judy Perry
July 21, 2006
FAVORITE FOOD-RELATED WEB SITE: All recipes at www.allrecipes.com.

Taming the To-Do List
July 20, 2006
Shopping: Click it, get it and then forget it. One way to streamline the shopping process is to use Web sites that plan weekly meals and also provide a ready-made shopping list. Here are two: savingdinner.com and shop.allrecipes.com/shop/cooknik.

Get Teens Off the Couch, into the Kitchen
July 19, 2006
Store-bought chicken broth is the foundation for quick soups including a simple one of canned white beans, sliced kielbasa and handfuls of baby spinach. Look through cookbooks and online (www.allrecipes.com)...for recipes that have the right amount of chopping and prep work for your young cook’s skill level...

Students Recycle, Deliver Meals
July 5, 2006
Allrecipes.com, an online site where home cooks swap their best recipes, is looking for America’s top recipes. The site is hosting its first contest to unearth the country’s finest recipes from home cooks...Recipes will be judged on their taste, originality, visual appeal and adherence to category description. Final judging will take place at the Allrecipes.com test kitchen in Seattle, where the company is based.

Morgasbord
June 28, 2006
Feel like a winner? Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks, offers its first America’s Top Recipe contest. Grand prize: $10,000. Submissions accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit allrecipes.com/contest for details.

Help Yourself
June 21, 2006
Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks, offers its first America’s Top Recipe contest. Grand prize: $10,000. Submissions are being accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit allrecipes.com/contest for details. Mail entries to Allrecipes.com Inc., Attn: America’s Top Recipe Contest 2006, 3317 Third Ave. South, Suite D, Seattle WA 98134. If mailing your recipe, include recipe title, recipe, category, name, mailing address, age and birthdate and telephone number.

Feel Like a Winner?
June 21, 2006
Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks, offers its first America’s Top Recipe contest. Grand prize: $10,000. Submissions accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit allrecipes.com/contest for details.

Feel Like a Winner?
June 21, 2006
Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks, offers its first America’s Top Recipe contest. Grand prize: $10,000. Submissions accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit allrecipes.com/contest for details.

Feel Like a Winner?
June 21, 2006
Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks, offers its first America’s Top Recipe contest. Grand prize: $10,000. Submissions accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit allrecipes.com/contest for details.

Feel Like a Winner?
June 21, 2006
Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks, offers its first America’s Top Recipe contest. Grand prize: $10,000. Submissions accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit allrecipes.com/contest for details.

Share a Recipe, Win Big Bucks
June 21, 2006
USA WEEKEND and Allrecipes.com have teamed up for America’s Top Recipe Contest 2006. Readers can share their original recipe for a main course, side dish, baked good or dessert, and could win a grand prize of $10,000! Entries are due July 7. For complete contest details and online entry form, browse to www.yakimaherald.com/links/recipecontest.

What’s Cookin’
June 21, 2006
Feel like a winner? Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks and one of our favorite recipe resources, is offering its first America’s Top Recipe contest. The grand prize: $10,000. The grand prize winner will be announced in the November 10-12 issue of USA Weekend magazine. Submissions will be accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit www.allrecipes.com/contest for details.

Recipe Contest
June 14, 2006
Feel like a winner? Allrecipes.com and USA Weekend introduce the first America’s Top Recipe Contest. The grand-prize winner will walk away $10,000 richer and have bragging rights to submitting America’s Top Recipe. Deadline for the recipe contest is July 7. For details, visit http://www.allrecipes.com/contest.

Dash of This: Food News
June 14, 2006
Feel like a winner? Allrecipes.com, a Web site for home cooks, offers its first America’s Top Recipe contest. Grand prize: $10,000. Submissions accepted online or by mail until midnight July 7. Visit allrecipes.com/contest for details.

Food News and Notes
June 7, 2006
Allrecipes.com, the recipe and cooking advice Web site, and USA Weekend, the newspaper insert published by the Reno Gazette-Journal’s parent company, are presenting America’s Top Recipe Contest. Between now and July 7, folks can enter their recipes in one of five categories. Top prize is $10,000, and the winner and finalists will be announced in the Nov. 10-12 issue of USA Weekend. Visit www.allrecipes.com/contest for contest information, rules and submission details.

What’s Your Secret Recipe?
May 30, 2006
What’s your secret recipe? Enter the America’s Top Recipe Contest for a chance at winning $10,000. Go to usaweekend.allrecipes.com for details. Entry deadline is July 7.

America’s Top Recipe Contest
May 24, 2006
Allrecipes.com is offering home cooks a chance to win $10,000 for the top recipe in America. Competition categories are international, holiday family favorite, kid pleaser, healthy pleasures and super quick suppers. Recipes will be judged on taste, originality, visual appeal and adherence to category description. Enter online at www.allrecipes.com or send letter. Submissions will be accepted online or via U.S. mail until midnight July 7.

For Last Minute Recipes, Go Surfing
May 21, 2006
The Internet has changed a lot of things about modern life, including how we cook. In some kitchens, the laptop is taking the place of the cookbook collection. Following are some sites we think are worth cooking with. Many of them have video demos, personal recipe boxes to store your favorite recipes, newsletters and other cyber-specific features...The best: Allrecipes.com. A community cookbook for home cooks all over the world, this site has 30,000 recipes that are well organized and easy to search. The site lets you scale recipes to the number of people you will be serving. It lets you search for recipes that would complement the meal. Users can also submit original recipes ...

Web site seeks America’s top recipe
May 17, 2006
Allrecipes.com, a Web site of home cooks, and USA Weekend, are sponsoring the first America’s Top Recipe Contest. The online contest will kick off Friday, May 19, with the grand prize winner receiving $10,000. The five competitive categories will be international, holiday family favorite, kid pleaser, healthy pleasures and super quick suppers. Submissions will be accepted online or via mail until Friday, July 7. Submissions will be judged on the basis of taste, originality, visual appeal and adherence to category description. Category finalists will be announced at Allrecipes.com on Monday, Sept. 18. Final judging will take place at the Allrecipes.com test kitchen in Seattle. The winner will be announced Nov. 10. Rules: www.allrecipes.com/contest.

Contest
May 17, 2006
Allrecipes.com and USA Weekend will kick off an online contest, America’s Top Recipe Contest, on Friday with a national search for the best, original recipes in America. The five competition categories are International, Holiday Family Favorite, Kid Pleaser, Healthy Pleasures and Super Quick Suppers. For rules and regulations and submission details, go to www.allrecipes.com/contest/. Submissions will be accepted online or via U.S. mail until midnight Friday, July 7. The grand prize is $10,000. Winners and finalists will be named in the Nov. 10 issue of USA Weekend. Category winners will receive a complete set of Allrecipes.com Tried-and-True cookbooks and more.

Surf for the Turf
May 2, 2006
The Internet has changed a lot of things about modern life, including how we cook. In some kitchens, the laptop is taking the place of the cookbook collection. Here are some sites we think are worth cooking with. Many of them have video demos, personal recipe boxes to store your favorite recipes, newsletters and other cyber-specific features...Allrecipes.com. A community cookbook for home cooks all over the world, this site has 30,000 recipes that are well organized and easy to search. The site lets you scale recipes to the number of people you will be serving. And it lets you search for recipes that would complement the meal. Users can also submit original recipes. www.allrecipes.com ...

Love at First Site
May 2006
... Stressor: It’s dinnertime, and all you’ve got in the pantry is half a box of pasta, some peanut butter, a can of chicken stock, and an old red pepper. Solution: Allrecipes.com. Cost: Free. If you like grocery shopping about as much as getting your bikini line waxed, meet your new best friend. Click on the “Ingredient Search” link, type in whatever random ingredients you’ve got lying around, and the site searches a database of more than 30,000 dishes ...

Delicious dot-com; Raised in the South Sound, Bill Moore runs a Seattle-based online recipe community that just sold for a cool $66 million. Talk about a success story: Earlier, he invented the Frappuccino.
April 16, 2006
Bill Moore, age maybe 8, stands on Lorraine Skidmore’s Lakewood doorstep. He’s selling greeting cards. Skidmore remembers: “He’s always had a big smile. He was a super salesman. Whether you needed it or not, you couldn’t resist Bill.” He made the sale. Today, at 45, things haven’t changed all that much for Moore. The deals have just become bigger. Moore just sold his dot-com business for $66 million. He will remain president and CEO of allrecipes.com, a Seattle-based Web site that catalogs—as the name implies—recipes for most any reasonable dish you might wish to cook...

Egg-citing ideas for your own hunt
April 15, 2006
The ideas aren’t cracked but the eggs might be. Such is the nature of the annual scramble for Easter eggs. This weekend, basket-toting kids will scour homes and yards for treasured chocolate bunnies, miniature malted eggs and handfuls of gold-foil coins. Try out some egg-inspired twists to keep your young hunters hopping. Sources: Children’s Medical Center Dallas; allrecipes.com...

Easter springs into sweet season
April 12, 2006
The first day of spring was almost a month ago, but Easter officially welcomes it with arms spread wide open. Somber clothes give way to finery in gay colors; eggs and flowers represent life just blossoming; and lighter foods push their way onto the table. Chocolate Easter bunnies may be chosen first among the treats in baskets, but fresh asparagus, strawberries, chives and rhubarb move the season into a new gear. Some people start the day early at sunrise services to mark the Christian celebration of Jesus Christ rising from the dead. That makes inevitable a breakfast or brunch with egg dishes and morning hunts for colored eggs. According to an Internet survey of 1,000 users throughout the country by allrecipes.com, Midwesterners are more likely to choose turkey over ham for a main dish...

Washington Times

Abstract eggs-pressionist painters; Budding artists add texture, mosaic or relief patterns to dyed eggs
April 12, 2006
...The American Egg Board, an organization in Park Ridge, Ill., that promotes the egg industry, provides directions for making dyes on its Web site, www.aeb.org: For each cup of water, which should be warmer than the egg, add a few drops of food coloring and two to three teaspoons of white vinegar, which will allow the color to adhere; the egg is dipped into this mixture with a slotted spoon and left there until the desired color is achieved. Egg dyes also can be made by using fruit drinks, brewed coffee or tea, powdered drink mixes and boiled spices and foods, says Elisa Maloberti, consumer information coordinator for the AEB. Boiled eggs can be dipped directly into the dyes for a darker color, or the eggs can be boiled with the dyes to achieve a lighter, more subtle color, she says. “It will be a different color palette, a softer color palette,” Ms. Maloberti says. Using naturally made dyes requires more time to color the eggs than does using the store-bought tablets, says Cory Vicens, culinary director at Allrecipes.com, a Seattle-based food Web site. “With store-bought dyes ... you can get a pretty good color straight off,” Ms. Vicens says. “To achieve deep, rich colors, the eggs need to be left in natural dyes for at least one to two hours, while pastels and lighter hues require less time, depending on the intensity of color desired,” she says. She recommends giving dyed eggs enough time to air dry before decorating them...

Egg-cellent Easter: Plenty of options liven up annual egg-decorating fun
April 11, 2006
...Those little Paas dye tablets have been part of the Easter egg-decorating tradition for more than a century. They’re simple, fun and they work. They’re every harried parent’s dream, which is probably why the company can boast that it sells 10 million egg-dyeing kits each year. Sometimes, though, the whole family might want a little more egg-citement, some variation in the routine. What to do? Lots of options exist for those who want more than the typical egg dipping. Even Paas recognizes that, which is why the company has a variety of kits available now: Make speckled, glitter, swirled or tie-dyed eggs. Draw on them. Create a glamour egg with beads, jewels and feather boas. Abstract eggs: Drizzle a strong glue, like rubber cement, over the egg. Let the glue dry completely, then dye the egg. After the egg dries, rub off the glue, which will leave white streaks — Decorating ideas courtesy of allrecipes.com, holidaycrafter.com and familyfun.com.

Web notes
April 11, 2006
...http://allrecipes.com/advice/coll/easter/ — Click here to find out what is being served on Easter Sunday all around the world...

Web Winners
April 9, 2006
This is one of those years when Easter and Passover — which were celebrated at the same time during the first centuries of Christianity — just happen to coincide. We looked at the Web to understand how the dates are set, and how families set their tables for these holidays...allrecipes.com/directory/2975.asp — Kosher Passover. Cabbage kugel, anyone? How about Passover French toast, made with sponge cake?...

Inside the Deal: Recipe for an Acquisition
April 7, 2006
...As of last year, Allrecipes.com president and CEO Bill Moore was content to run the fast-growing, online community recipe site independently. Allrecipes.com had grown its business by 60 percent in 2005. But five separate suitors came calling, persuading Moore to rethink his go-it-alone strategy. Allrecipes.com turned down two offers...

Tanimura & Antle, Mann add marketing efforts
April 4, 2006
...Tanimura & Antle has joined with cooking and recipe Web site Allrecipes.com to build brand recognition and to promote product usage among home cooks. The company’s sponsorship will include branded graphics on the Salad Recipe Channel homepage and branded recipes highlighting Tanimura & Antle products, and stickers on the clamshell packaging for Sweet Gem lettuce will direct customers to Allrecipes.com. Mann Packing Co., which has already been marketing for two years on Allrecipes.com, has added www.weightwatchers.com to its Internet marketing efforts, including a brand platform in the site’s food and beverage marketplace and banner ads. Mann has also added an electronic coupon component to its marketing campaigns. Mann will also include a store locator to its site at www.veggiesmadeeasy.com.

RDA Swallows Allrecipes.com
April 3, 2006
The Reader’s Digest Association announced late last week it plans to acquire Allrecipes.com, a community-based Web site geared for home cooks, for $66 million. The 8-year-old Allrecipes.com averages 6 million unique monthly users, according to Reader’s Digest. The site, which has 1.8 million registered users, serves as a food-centric online social network, enabling home cooks to share and discover recipes. Allrecipes.com will become a portal for all the company’s food-related Web properties — including the Web sites of the magazines Taste of Home and Every Day with Rachael Ray...

Quick hits
April 3, 2006
Seattle’s Allrecipes.com, which has an online database of 30,000 recipes, was purchased by Reader’s Digest Association for $66 million. That means Reader’s Digest paid $2,200 per recipe...

Click and save
April 2, 2006
...His company has big-name clients in the packaged-goods industry who already are shifting between 10 percent and 20 percent of their coupons out of newspapers and onto the Web. “The move,” Boal says, “is about reaching consumers anywhere they happen to be.” That could be on the Web site equivalent of a newspaper insert — something similar to www.couponmom.com, a destination dedicated solely to coupon users and smart shoppers. Or it could be on a site that has nothing to do with deals, such as www.allrecipes.com, where printable coupon pop-up windows are embedded in the text of a recipe or article. Scroll over ‘salt,’ and you can click, print and get 50 cents off your next seasoning purchase. Considering baking? How ‘bout $1 off chocolate chips? Boal expects to see many more of these contextual coupon offers pop up as newspapers struggle to attract readers and marketers see the appeal of tracking their audiences — from Web site to coupon to printer to the store...

RDA buys additional recipe for success
April 1, 2006
The publisher of Reader’s Digest magazine is adding another dish to its menu for consumers who love food with the $66 million purchase of a Seattle Web site that allows cooking fans to share recipes online. The purchase of Allrecipes.com is the first major Internet acquisition for Chappaqua-based Reader’s Digest Association, which publishes five food magazines, including Taste of Home and the new Every Day with Rachael Ray. “It’s not just that it instantly gives us Seattle cool and online credibility, it also complements the areas that we’ve identified as our greatest strengths, food and cooking,“ said company spokesman William Adler. Allrecipes.com has a network of 1.8 million registered members who have submitted 30,000 recipes. The site allows users to post reviews and give ratings to individual recipes. It also has tools that make it easy to expand and reduce recipe yields and quickly find side dishes, appetizers and desserts. Allrecipes.com, which generates cash from advertising and licensing its online tools, receives about 6 million visitors in an average month and as many as 9 million a month during the holidays, RDA said...

Food show host’s publisher scoops up Allrecipes; $66 million deal — Reader’s Digest will use it as online portal to food sites
April 1, 2006
Seattle recipe-sharing site Allrecipes.com is quoting Food Network host Rachael Ray’s trademark line “How awesome is that?” after being sold for $66 million to the publisher of Ray’s new magazine. Reader’s Digest Association will use Allrecipes.com as an online portal to its food Web sites and magazines, such as Taste of Home and Every Day with Rachael Ray. The site will also sell Reader’s Digest cookbooks, and its sales staff will sell online ads for the parent company. The company’s approximately 50 employees will be retained in Seattle, where Reader’s Digest could expand its online operation in the future, said Allrecipes.com Chief Executive Bill Moore...

Reader’s Digest Snaps up Allrecipes Seattle-Based Web Site Brings $66 Million
April 1, 2006
Seattle’s Allrecipes.com — one of the true survivors of the dot-com bust — was sold Friday for $66 million to Reader’s Digest Association Inc. It is the first major Internet acquisition for Reader’s Digest, a Pleasantville, N.Y., publishing company that posted $2.4 billion in revenue last year. “Now we have a significant digital presence in the food affinity to complement our leading position in print,” Eric Schrier, chief executive of Reader’s Digest, said in an interview with Bloomberg News. Allrecipes.com, formed eight years ago to allow cooks to swap recipes online, will become the central Web presence for Reader’s Digest’s food sites, including those of Taste of Home and Light & Tasty magazines, and help spur advertising sales, the company said. Visitors to Allrecipes.com can browse among 30,000 recipes...

The Joy of Cooking: Six Menu-Planning Websites
April 2006
...Best Special Effects—Cooknik... What you get: Five entrée recipes with serving suggestions, a shopping list, and professional cooking and shopping advice emailed every Wednesday. The flavor: Allrecipes has compiled a treasure trove of recipes—30,000 at last count—contributed by home cooks. Recently, in partnership with cookbook author Pam Anderson, who edited and tested the collection, Allrecipes.com launched Cooknik, a menu planner featuring American food with worldly diversions: roast chicken on one night, scallops with orange-basil sauce or eggplant Parmesan the next. And if it’s technically possible, this website does, offering high-quality photographs, alternative recipe suggestions, easy scaling tools, online recipe boxes and more...

That’s the way the cookies crumble
March 29, 2006
Cookies. Need we say more? After school, a treat for something you did well, or for that nosh before bed. Cookies are the favorite choice all day, every day. And, don’t forget the milk. Cookies have been with us for more than 1,300 years. These wafer-thin “cakes” got their start in Persia and today have progressed to the thousands of varieties readily available at any supermarket in America. Read more about the history of cookies at whatscookingamerica.net. Besides tasting delicious, cookies are portable and come in almost any flavor you can imagine. And a cook can mine from a mind-boggling array of recipes. Our recipe hunt starts at cookie.allrecipes.com with more than 3,000 recipes in categories such as drop cookies, spice cookies, cut-out cookies and no-bake cookies...

Tanimura & Antle partner with Internet food site
March 13, 2006
Spreckels-based grower-shipper Tanimura & Antle Inc. has partnered with an Internet cooking and recipe Web site, Allrecipes.com, to continue building brand recognition and to promote product trial and usage among its audience of home cooks. Allrecipes.com boasted more than 9.1 million visitors to the site in December.

How To Click and Cook
March 13, 2006
Mastering your culinary domain—whether you aspire to make chicken soup like Mom or eggplant like Emeril—often requires more guidance than a classic cookbook can provide. Now, rather than shell out for lessons, you can hop online and learn to slice, spice and sauté like a cordon bleu. Just remember not to spill your béchamel on the keyboard.

EMPTY YOUR FRIDGE - If you hate throwing out leftovers, allrecipes.com has a handy feature. The free site will generate a list of recipes that use whatever you have on hand, omitting anything you would prefer not to add. Got some broccoli and beans but hate cheese? A quick search yields simple veggie soups and a stir-fry. You can even specify how much time you’re willing to spend in the kitchen.

Slow cookers are back at Allrecipes.com
March 1, 2006
Slow cookers are back at Allrecipes.com, the popular recipes and cooking advice Web site, gives the slow cooker its due with the Allrecipes.com Crock Pot Collection (http://crockpot.allrecipes.com). The page offers appetizer, side and main dish recipes, tips on how to adapt conventional recipes to the slow cooker, and advice on how to stretch leftovers into several meals.

OSCAR-style; Popcorn and paper ballots will do it, but a bit more is always nice
March 1, 2006
... We’ve borrowed some helpful bits from various sources (see a list of Web sites elsewhere with this story) and used experience and common sense for the rest. Included is a big-pot recipe for Cowboy Stew (a tip of the hat to Best Picture nominee “Brokeback Mountain”) plucked from Allrecipes.com. You’ll find more recipes from that source plus one for that garlic-Parmesan popcorn at our Web site ...

Retro slow cooker masters homey flavor
February 22, 2006
... Anyone who wants a slow cooker should get married and invite Jerry Gulley to the party. He often gives one as a wedding gift. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Gulley is editor-in-chief of Allrecipes.com. He develops the Web site’s content to respond to what people want to cook. “A slow cooker really carries its weight,” he says. “It fits into any kitchen. It is retro, comforting, homey and fits any generation, with people in their 20s taking it up.” Whether buying it for oneself or a bride and groom, he notes the price tag can be $150, but one in the $20 to $25 range is reliable, too. It also fits any decor ...

Grocery Game attracts 100,000 players; It’s among Web sites helping shoppers save
February 5, 2006
... In 2004, Nancy Giehl spent $12,000 on groceries for her family of five. “Now, I probably spend about $9,000 a year,” said Giehl, of Boulder, Colo. What’s changed since then is Giehl, 48, now is one of the many “players” on a Web site called The Grocery Game... The scope of the savings on the Web also is broader, he said. Customers can find coupons on media sites, on brand homepages and embedded in the text of pages. For example, on Allrecipes.com, a user can click on the highlighted ingredients in a recipe and be directed to a coupon for that product ...

Terrific tips for tasty Super Bowl success; good sports / on and off the field
February 2, 2006
... To round out your Super Bowl feast, try the football-themed recipes, like no-fry spicy potato skins, picked out by the expert cooks at AllRecipes.com: http://allrecipes.com/advice/coll/all/articles/514P1.asp ...

Send in the salsa, Coach; Hot tips for cool dips on Super Bowl Sunday
February 1, 2006
... Sure you can throw a Super Bowl party. Yes, the big game is this weekend, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be ready to have friends over for a little football fun. Go with a dipping party theme and you’ll be ready in no time. Select three or more dips, depending on how many friends you’re inviting. Prep the dips on Saturday and give the den a good dusting. Then follow Tigger’s philosophy of party-throwing: “Open the door and hope for the best.” “It’s just the easiest,” says Jerry Gulley, editor in chief of the Web site Allrecipes.com, which is loaded with dip recipes. “I think that making dips is actually really fun ...”

Game plan for cooks on Super Sunday
February 1, 2006
... It’s the countdown to Super Bowl Sunday. We’re talking food here, so what’s on the menu? Beer, chips and dip may be the big game staple, but home cooks can score with the big game spread in other ways. Allrecipes.com, a site considered to be the world’s largest test kitchen, is a place to go for tips and recipes. A dip buffet is just one of the many ideas offered on the site. If you’re looking for no-fuss cooking, there is a selection of Crock-pot options. Since the ultimate dude food is chili, the Web site has picked the most requested chili recipes from coast to coast to make sure you have a winner for the big day ...

Allrecipes.com powers grocers’ sites with recipes
February 2006
Allrecipes.com now provides Safeway and Super Target with customizable recipes and meal planning solutions for customers online. And the online food and recipe site anticipates adding new grocery store clients to its list this year, according to Jim Kreyenhagen, vice president of new business development at Allrecipes.com ...

Serious Money
January 27, 2006
Interview with Bill Moore, CEO of Allrecipes.com

Cook with ease
January 22, 2006
... looking for a quick appetizer or dessert for your Super Bowl party? With more than 30,000 recipes, many submitted by the site’s visitors, Allrecipes.com is a terrific source of information about timesaving shortcuts and practical ingredients ...

Let someone else make dinner plans
January 22, 2006
... Allrecipes.com Cooknik—USA Weekend food columnist Pam Anderson selects mail dishes from the highest-rated recipes in the Allrecipes.com library. She and a team of professional food experts test and tweak the recipes. One nifty feature of this site: Every recipe can be scaled from one to 300 servings (great for community gatherings!), and nutritional information is included ...

Mon Dieu! Microsoft Snubbed in France; Download - Interesting Bits and Bytes
January 16, 2006
... What the French should worry about is America’s lead in online gastronomy. Seattle-based Allrecipes.com reported last week that holiday cooks drove its site traffic to a record 9.1 million visitors last month. That put Allrecipes.com in second place among recipe sites, trailing only Foodnetwork.com, the company said ...

Five Places: For Foodies, Online
January 12, 2006
... Allrecipes has more than 30,000 free recipes, all created, tested, submitted and reviewed by home cooks. Type in “roasted chicken” in the “recipe finder” section, and you’ll find more than 600 recipes to read through in your leisure time. Round out your meal at the “serve-with” ideas section for ideas on pasta, potato, rice and vegetable side dishes, plus salads and desserts. Got an item in your pantry you’re not sure what to do with? Go to the “what’s in your pantry” section and do an ingredient search ...

Chop Chop! We’re all Looking for Easy Ways to Get Dinner on the Table. Here are Some New Ideas We’ve Found for Serving Yourself and Your Family a Good Square Meal with Hassle
January 12, 2006
... If menu planning is the hard part for you, subscribe to Allrecipes.com’s Cooknik. The Web site has teamed up with cookbook author Pam Anderson to send you a weekly meal plan with recipes, meal suggestions, timesaving tips and a shopping list. If you don’t know Anderson, let me introduce you because I used to work with her. She’s written numerous cookbooks including Cooksmart (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and The Perfect Recipe (Houghton Mifflin, 2001) where she tries recipes over and over until she discovers the best way to prepare them ...

Food Web sites have all a cook needs to know
January 12, 2006
... allrecipes.com—Huge recipe warehouse offering something for every course. You can also schmooze with others on the message board and find out why your soufflé fell. Features Top 10 recipes as well as special-need recipes like those for diabetics or people on low-salt diets ...

Become a Seasoned Surfer on the Web
January 9, 2006
... With more than 30,000 recipes, many submitted by the site’s visitors, Allrecipes.com is a terrific source of information about timesaving shortcuts and practical ingredients. (Can you say “frozen pie shell?”) ...

Foodies Will Enjoy Seeing These Sites: Web Surfing Reveals Inspiring Sources
January 5, 2006
... allrecipes.com — Huge recipe warehouse offering something for every course. You can also schmooze with others on the message board and find out why your soufflé fell. Features Top 10 recipes as well as special-need recipes like those for diabetics or people on low-salt diets ...

Book a Visit to Internet Food Destinations
January 4, 2006
... allrecipes.com - Huge recipe warehouse offering something for every course. You can also schmooze with others on the message board and find out why your soufflé fell. Features Top 10 recipes as well as special-need recipes like those for diabetics or people on low-salt diets ...