Food.com is a 21st century recipe box, with recipes from around the web

Web sites with recipes are a dime a dozen. But the new Food.com isn't just a recipe web site. It's a recipe aggregator, search engine, and storage tool.

Here's how it works. You enter a search term and Food.com will look for matching recipes from Recipezaar, epicurious, Food & Wine, Chow, and other sites. The search results page shows some basic information including an ingredient list. If you visit the original page for the complete recipe, Food.com displays a toolbar that you can use to go back to your search results, but you can close the toolbar if you don't like it.

While I'm not generally a big fan of this type of toolbar, it does make searching for recipes a lot easier, since odds are you're going to be flipping back and forth looking for the recipe that best meets your needs. And Food.com does have one killer feature that's not quite integrated into the toolbar, but which shows up on the bottom of the page when you're sifting throuh search results. You can drag and drop any recipe to a "recipe box" that you can use to find your favorite recipes again later.

The new Food.com is still in beta, so there may be some kinks to work out. But it's already one of the best resources I've seen for finding and saving recipes online.

[via Lifehacker]

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