Tuesday 20 January 2009

Aus food sites

I've found the site taste.com.au really useful recently. It's well designed and they seem to have thought of it all...


Not only does it aggregate recipes from a whole load of different recipe/food sites, but also:
  • Recipe reviews by users
  • news
  • cooking tips
  • info about ingredients
  • info about specific cuisine types
  • forums to chat to other foodies
  • member login where you can save recipes you like, add your own recipes to your 'folder', save a recipes ingredients to build a shopping list
  • Recommends similar / related recipes
Certain recipes are grouped to make it easier to browse for specific types like collections of side dishes, turkish food... I particularly enjoyed looking through the barbecue collection and am planning to try the prawn skewers this weekend - yum!
I also looked at cuisine.com.au, I prefer the more subtle look and feel and its groupings and search are simpler and make a bit more sense, but doesn't have the same level of functionality with the member login, user reviews and forums which Taste has.

Love the wine matching tool though!