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Default Digital cookbook recommendations sought

On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:21:01 -0500, Mark Farouk wrote:

> Does anyone know of any cookbook software where you can add your own
> recipes to make your own (digital) cookbook?
>
> I would like to be able to copy and paste recipes I get off the Internet
> instead of having to type every word. Maybe even include a pic of the
> food which often accompanies online recipes. I don't even know if such a
> thing exists.
>

Any word processor will work. I did a little experiment and wen to an on
line recipe (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/g...resh-broccoli-
salad-recipe/index.html) selected and copied the text and pasted it into
a word processor, it worked just fine, probably as well or better than
"recipe software"

I tried Abiword, Libreoffice, and Google Docs, but I imagine that any
word processor will work. I also tried a text editor, and that just
worked fine as well.

You may have, or at least want to do some reformatting, as I don't think
all online recipes are formatted the same way.

The picture you would have to cut and paste separately, and obviously you
could not do that in a text editor like gedit or notepad.

Brian Christiansen