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About Me

I have three daughters in various stages of college (undergrad to pre-doctorate). Cooking is a favorite family activity. We enjoy trying new things--especially different types of ethnic foods. My husband is a willing and appreciated dish-washer. 

I am an obsessive-compulsive book collector; cookbooks are no exception. My favorites are the Lemon books. I have 20-plus Lemon cookbooks, most of them out of print. 

In the summertime I garden vegetables and herbs, and try to stay as close to organic as I can. In the winter I pot and pull anything inside that will survive, and keep it alive in my mini-conservatory for as long as possible. If we ever finish putting daughters through college, I hope to build a whole-room conservatory. 

I toyed with Recipezaar until Thanksgiving '07, when I cooked every dish from recipes on the Zaar. It was the best dinner I've ever made. Needless to say, my "real life" recipe book collection has since gathered a little dust.

7.18.10

Re: "Food.com"

I'm very sad that this site has been sold, and is no longer subscription based. I like change, usually, especially when it comes with improvements--and I do appreciate some of the upgrades so far. However, IMHO, forced advertisements are not an improvement. Neither is the way the paid subscribers (or the creators of the site) have been treated and discarded. I do not like the search change, esp. "search by ratings" redesign.

I hope the site improves. Scripts did a great job with Food Network--though my fear is that they will dissolve this site into foodnetwork.com.

I don't know. I could be wrong. Maybe it will eventually be worth the downside. We'll see. 

Best wishes to Troy and Gay, the founders of Recipezaar.