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FoodieView Category Search, Recipe Box
If you choose to browse by category in FoodieView, you're in for a treat. This might be a good option for those people like me who don't have a clue what they really are in the mood to cook, and would like to just search through some recipes. Every single category that FoodieView covers is on this page, and it's really interesting to see some of the recipe and cooking options available here (anyone up for some Czech food?). And as stated before-if you want to search in FoodieView, you can use the all-purpose "category:" operator. A good search strategy might be to go to the browse by category page and figure out what categories you'd like to put together for a search; say, veal category:czech category:entrees category:side dishes.The Recipe Box requires free registration; all you need to come up with is a login name, email, and password. Once you come up with this, you are automatically forwarded to the login page (no waiting for the confirmation email). After you've registered, you can start saving recipes in your Recipe Box, basically your own little FoodieView cache of favorite recipes. The Recipe Box will then display your favorite recipes in order of date added; you're given the option of removing it, and FoodieView Recipe Box shows you the title of the recipe along with the name of the originating site. A very cool and useful feature; I've already added about ten favorite recipes.
FoodieView Recipe Search Extras
FoodieView's Restaurant Finder is still in the "getting ready" stage; it only has San Diego's best restaurants right now. This feature is basically a Google Map and restaurants interactive search tool; I'll be checking back to see if they add any more towns or geographic areas.FoodieView's Must Have Cookbooks make for some interesting reading. Right now, there are only six or so categories of reviews, but each cookbook review is detailed, and then you're given suggestions for other cookbooks in that particular category.
FoodieView's Resources is a veritable wonderland of food links, recipe links, foodie links, etc. I've bookmarked quite a few of these already.
Why Should I Use FoodieView Recipe Search?
A few reasons:- It's easy. You can find recipes on here quickly, with little fuss or sorting. The FoodieView search features (Narrow By, category:) are easily implemented to make your search that much more effective.
- Great features. The Recipe Box tool is really, really practical and fun. All your recipes in one place from multiple different recipe sites.
- Relevant results. I found that I got really great results with FoodieView. If I wanted a recipe with plums and chicken, well, I got recipes with plums and chicken. There's no sorting through endless unrelated results here.
