Cooking is Fun

Cooking is Fun is a web site to share recipes and create shopping lists. The idea is to make a pursuit of cooking fun. The site features a large database of ingredients, the ability to add ingredients, predictive text.. and other Ajax features. A user can store recipes in a 'binder' and then take collective action on the binder: create a shopping list that is grouped by Grocery section, and printing a branded Packet of recipes.

The structure of a recipe is as follows:
I. Basic Info
Name, Output, Footnotes

II. Ingredient Groups
A group is something like "for the salsa."
A group contains items.
Items belong to a category such as Protein, Produce, Spices...

III. Preparation
Segments. Such as "for the sauce.."

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That is the 'kernel' of the site. The search and social aspect comes from tagging of a recipe and scoring of other members' recipes. Tagging is provided for.. but the scoring will be handled by the Facebook API. Cooking is Fun will use Facebook Connect to integrate with the popular networking site.

It will be fun. I know this has been dry text... but the service itself will be a hoot. The demo version is now active. The next phase of development will involve Facebook integration, leading into a Beta Launch.

Here is the demo URL: http://cooking.phamper.com

* The default title is "Cooking with Sherry is Fun." When a user logs in, the name 'Sherry' is replaced with the user's first name. *