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Martha Stewart's Everyday Food Magazine Recipe Index

Layout article by kdrkdr on 03 July 2006, tagged as fitnessnutrition, food, and martha stewart

If you're responsible for cooking for your family, or even just enjoy cooking simple, tasty and healthy meals for yourself, you might have heard of or subscribed to Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazine. Compact and full of all kinds of cooking information, the magazine even seems tailor-made for collecting into a reference library - but there is one glaring problem: no index. What good is a library without an index?

Kathryn addresses this issue head on with a well-organized, customizable and dowloadable index of the magazine's first 28 issues. Equipped to find recipes related to certain food items or preparation times, the Everday Food enthusiast is well prepared to exploit their cooking library.

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Martha Stewart on OmniNerd by tomtolman :: NR6

I must say, I never expected to find a customizable index to Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food magazine on OmniNerd. I guess in between studying rootkits and programming a bootstrap loader someone's got to eat right? I'm quite impressed.

Kathryn, is it your intention to release monthly updates to your list?

Posted 03 July 2006, Hide, Reply
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Marthadex by Anonymous :: NR0

Oh my gosh, another person as crazy as I am. I've got Everyday Food 1-19 (I'm behind on updates) indexed at the Marthadex, along with most of the other Martha Stewart mags. It's got a database backend, so it's web-searchable, plus some bells and whistles like you can choose just which issues you have from the list and it'll only search those. I don't have the prep time and everything, though. Wow!

--Maitreya

Posted 04 July 2006, Hide, Reply
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Just to Make Sure by Anonymous :: NR0

I wasn't sure if I am missing something so I thought I would ask - do I still need to have the issues to get the recipes? There isn't something I can click on to get the actual recipe, is there? It would be really cool if each recipe had a link to an actual copy of the recipe.

Posted 04 July 2006, Hide, Reply
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recipes online? by tomtolman :: NR6

In the interest of full disclosure, I'll admit one teensy hang-up to the Everyday Food library: there is no comprehensive index. Not even online...I've often had difficulty finding the exact recipe I've needed for a particular occasion. Case in point: when my local market had limes on sale 20 for a buck, I had to browse every issue to find recipes for limeade, lime-glazed cookies, salmon with lime and cilantro, and coconut-lime rice pudding.

Using the recipe search on the Everyday Food website I was able to find several recipes. For example, a search for limes returns 80 results including limeade, lime-glazed cookies, and salmon with lime and cilantro. I didn't see any coconut-lime rice pudding however.

Are the recipes on the website the same as the ones in Everyday Food? Are there more in the magazine? More online? If the recipes are available online is there still an allure to the magazines?

Posted 05 July 2006, Hide, Reply
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More Online Recipe Options by tomtolman :: NR6

TechCrunch has a review on a new site, recipematcher.com which helps you solve the problem of finding recipes to match the ingredients you have on hand. From the review:

RecipeMatcher is a user generated recipe site with a cool search concept: tell it what you have in your kitchen and it will suggest recipes. It will also suggest close matches and tell you what else you need for a complete meal. With a click you can add it to a printable grocery list.

If you’re into this, compare it to AllRecipes, FoodNetwork and Google Recipes (part of Google Base), all of which allow searching by ingredients. Only RecipeMaker, so far, seems to allow you to store the ingredients you have in your pantry, though, which many people will find useful.

Posted 12 August 2006, Hide, Reply
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Thank you by Anonymous :: NR0

Thank you so much for indexing the complete set of Everyday Food!! Wow, you are so generous for sharing. My mother, sister and I have subscribed since issue 2, of course, the story of our family. In any case, we have had many discussions as to why there is not an index. You have solved one of our problems. Trying to remember where we got a terrific recipe for dinner and having to sort through 35 issues was just too much! Now we can find it in an instant. Thank you again.

Posted 08 September 2006, Hide, Reply
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updated version with hyperlinks by sjtpharm :: NR0

Hi all from another Everyday Food junkie!

I found this post while searching for TOC's of Everyday Food to add to my spreadsheet- this is terrific! Since I got most of my TOC's online it had many of the recipes pre-hyperlinked (I found links for many of the others as well on the website). I combined my hyperlinked spreadsheet with Kathryn's much more detailed one (and updated it up to issue 36). I'm too lazy to manually put in the page #s for the new issues, but the issues and dates are there.

Being web-challenged I'm not sure how to share it, but I'd be happy to email it to someone to post.

Take care,

Stacey (sjtpharm AT hotmail.com)

Posted 14 October 2006, Hide, Reply
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Updated spreadsheet, now with more improviness! by fryfrog :: NR3

I've taken the spreadsheet above and updated it to include up to issue #38. I also converted all the times from a format such as "1 hr, 30 min" to "1:30" which makes it possible to *sort* by prep / total time. I've added a new "rating" column for *YOU* to use to rate the ones you have tried. More trivially, I removed the extra workbooks.

You can find the file at http://fryfrog.com/files/everyday_food_fanatic_index_through_38.xls or if you would like the smaller, zipped version http://fryfrog.com/files/everyday_food_fanatic_index_through_38.zip

Posted 26 November 2006, Hide, Reply
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cool thanks by Anonymous :: NR0

I have subscribed since the very first issue and been a devotee since. I have always lamented the searching it takes to go through and find a recipe. No idea the first issue is worth so much! wow.

Posted 12 November 2007, Hide, Reply
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Wow! by Anonymous :: NR0

You're my absolute HERO!

Hugs for you! :)

Posted 13 February 2008, Hide, Reply
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THANK YOU! by Anonymous :: NR0

You're fantastic! I thought I was going to have to make my own EF index, but you already have (and much better than I would of, might I add). THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Posted 07 March 2008, Hide, Reply
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THANK YOU by Anonymous :: NR0

I knew that i couldn't be the only one who spent more time flipping through my many many many issues of everyday food looking for that one particular recipe than i spent actually cooking the damn recipe! This is great!

Posted 03 June 2008, Hide, Reply