Record what you have on hand and automatically create grocery lists to restock your pantry.
Create grocery lists for recipes, menus and meal plans, organized by grocery aisle
Maintain your own library of cooking techniques and cooking terms with images and videos.
Use Living Cookbook's powerful search and filter tools to help you find the perfect recipe.
Living Cookbook offers unrivalled flexibility when it comes to entering recipes. In addition to recipe ingredients and procedure steps you can add images, videos, attachments, tips, author notes, reviews and custom data fields.
Living Cookbook offers similar flexibility when it comes to displaying and printing recipes. You can use your favorite fonts and colors, change the order of the recipe elements, customize the nutrition layout and more. And you can print on any size paper supported by your printer.
Living Cookbook 2024 has taken recipe sharing and cookbook collaboration to a whole new level. You can use a Facebook-style news feed to share recipes with other Living Cookbook users. You can synchronize multiple copies of Living Cookbook. And you can collaborate online with friends and family to create cookbooks.
Over the years we have seen some amazing user recipe collections. The recipes are carefully crafted, the photographs are stunning and the overall quality and attention to detail is worthy of the best cookbooks. Every time we see one of these collections we think "we need to make it easier for users to share these recipes with their friends." We can already e-mail and export recipes but it involves multiple steps by both the sender and receiver. we wanted to make sharing a single click (or as few as possible) process on both ends. Living Cookbook 2024 does that and turns the sharing process into a conversation.
Watch VideoThere are two collaboration scenarios that we wanted to address. The first, and most obvious, is fundraising cookbooks. Lots of schools, churches, non-profits, etc. use Living Cookbook to create their fundraising cookbooks. If the cookbook involves multiple contributors, the task of importing, exporting and editing multiple recipes from multiple sources can be cumbersome. We wanted to make it much easier and intuitive. In Living Cookbook 2024 the cookbook owner (usually the cookbook's editor) shares the cookbook with the contributors. The contributors add and edit their respective recipes. The editor reviews the submissions and exports the final draft. All of this happens without any imports, exports or e-mails. And all changes are immediate since everyone is working with the same online version of the cookbook.
The second collaboration scenario is heirloom recipes or family favorites. What we want to be able to is make it easy to share a read-only copy of recipe collections so friends and family can view, print or copy all of the recipes in the collection and any new ones as they are added. Living Cookbook 2024 makes this really easy.
A number of Living Cookbook users have multiple homes (e.g. a primary residence and a vacation home) or they have multiple computers in the same house but no network. In both cases the users want to keep their recipe collections in synch. Currently this is done using backup and restore (i.e. backup your collection on one computer and then restore the backup file on the other computer). In Living Cookbook 2024 you achieve the same result by connecting the various copies of Living Cookbook to the same online account. The web service will take care of keeping everything in synch. In other words you can add and edit recipes in multiple locations and the changed recipes will be replicated to your other instances of Living Cookbook.
OCA's (occasionally connected applications) are a class of software applications that store their primary data locally (i.e. on your hard drive) and use the Internet for sharing and synchronizing data. Many Living Cookbook users have unreliable Internet connections or they take their computers to locations with no Internet (e.g. sailboats, hunting cabins, etc.) so it was important that Living Cookbook 2024's primary storage remain on the local hard drive. We also wanted to make Living Cookbook 2024 resilient in the sense that both the desktop and web databases be left in a valid state if synchronization were interrupted for any reason (e.g. user cancelled the synchronization process, user walked out of wi-fi range with their laptop, Internet router stopped working, etc.). And even if there is some sort of problem (e.g. you accidentally delete a cookbook and the deletion is replicated to the web database), you can always restore a backup file and sync everything up again.