Remember those roasted Brussels sprouts you made last year for the holidays? The whole family loved them — even Uncle Enzo, who normally turns green whenever forced to eat something of that color. Your family now thinks you're a kitchen wizard and wants you to repeat your culinary feat this weekend, but you can't seem to find the recipe. You remember discovering it online last year after having one egg nog too many, but you can't remember where. The copy you printed out has long since made its way into a recycling bin, and when you type "Roasted Brussels Sprouts" into Google you get thousands of listings. If you can find that recipe again, you must remember to save it. But how?
When you find that perfect ingredient combination for pumpkin pie filling or the ideal technique for roasting Cornish game hens, the web doesn't give you many options for holding onto it. You can bookmark recipes that have a dedicated URL; you can cut and paste recipes into an email or document; or you can hit the 'print' button, but these are all pretty clunky ways of storing ideas you want for quick reference. Many of the big recipe sites now have digital recipe boxes behind their login screens, but those are of limited use as well. Maintaining dozens of different accounts with food sites is not only a pain, but by distributing my recipes all over the Internet, I can't browse, sort or search them as whole.......
Why it's impossible to build a digital recipe libraryhttp://gigaom.com/2011/12/24/why-its-impossible-to-build-a-digital-recipe-library/
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