After a long but fun year of planning, designing, dreaming and building we are finally proud to present the fruits of our labor! Foodista.com - The Online Cooking Encyclopedia Everyone Can Edit.
Foodista is a place where it's easy to learn and share about cooking. We've organized cooking information into four basic elements that all interlink: Food, Recipes, Kitchen Tools, and Cooking Techniques. We also emphasize the beauty of cooking with big, beautiful photos of food from Flickr Creative Commons, as well as from our users.
We believe in quality over quantity, so we created a place for people who are excited about food to share their knowledge with the world. Our system lets anyone edit the site to make it better and it instantly publishes, like Wikipedia.org. Two heads are better than one - and 500 is even better! That's the beauty of collaborative editing.
For you food bloggers we've developed innovative technology for connecting cooking information across websites. These links help you build traffic to your blog and improve search engine rankings. Future widgets will allow you to include whole recipes from the Foodista database for free. How do you like them apples!
On the more technical side, we leverage open source software, cloud computing resources, and the wisdom of the crowds to rapidly develop cooking software and content. It's important to us to be as open as possible and to share with the world what we are building.
So we hope you enjoy the site! There's a lot more that's still cooking, and we look forward to sharing it all with you.
Comments
December 22, 2008
Congrats, Barnaby and Sheri! The site looks great! Nice design, very usable, and I'm learning more than I ever expected about sommeliers. :)
December 26, 2008
Hello foodista friends,
Congratulations on the website launch. Do not hesitate to contact me on any help you might need from China ;-)
Thanks for stopping by my blog,
Regards
January 24, 2009
remarkable idea. Great recipes and community involvement.
Brilliant.
good luck
How about a Ukrainian category.
A lot of the wonderful slavic dishes are a mingling of several ethnic cultures of Eastern Europe along with whatever exposure they had with traders on the Silk Route. The Ukrainian word for tea is CHEYE. Now it's very vogue but that is the Persian label for this beverage.
I have a great one for our version of gnocchi's which was made to use up leftover potatoes - but with added nourishment. This is the supreme comfort food. All non ethnics who have eaten in my kitchen devour this with gusto.
Good luck thanks for the passion and fun you are bringing to the table ... A lot of the young people - I have 4 adult children - don't cook much but perhaps would like to learn.. You bring a unique dynamic which will be more appealing and inviting.
Enjoyed hearing you on the radio today in my car. This is how I discovered you...... HOORAY
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