BIGOVEN.COM EXPANDS ITS GROWING FOOD SOCIAL NETWORK WITH “BIGOVEN GROUPS”, LETTING ANYONE CREATE THEIR OWN SPECIALIZED COOKING FORUM AND RECIPE SWAP
SEATTLE, WA JANUARY 11 2008: BigOven.com, a rapidly growing social network about food with 70,000+ registered members around the world, announced the immediate availability of “Recipe Groups”, a free service which lets cooks easily join or create conversations around any food or nutrition topic they’d like. Simply visit www.bigoven.com and click on “Community” to join one of the dozens of already-available discussion topics ranging from “Asian Flavors” to “Diabetics” to “Weight Watchers”*.
“Food is an inherently social topic. Our 70,000+ registered members from around the world are constantly sharing tips, recipes and techniques related to dozens of food topics. With BigOven groups, anyone can zero in on their own area of interest, whether it’s Cooking with Kids, Food Photography, Low Carb Cooking, or more” said Steve Murch, Head Chef and CEO of BigOven.com.
Recipes can be posted for free and tagged with keywords, such as flavor, difficulty level, or cuisine. Cooks can then add recipes to a free ‘Try Soon’ Queue, which is a running list of recipes that helps get you unstuck for dinner. Members can join an unlimited number of BigOven Groups and can optionally subscribe to discussion topics via email. Members can contribute recipes to one or more group, and link recipes together in meaningful ways, for example, to show what salads might go with a particular main course, or what leftovers of a given recipe might make. 160,000+ recipes are already on BigOven.com with hundreds more being added every week.
The optional BigOven for Windows recipe software ($34.95) is an award-winning, full-featured program offering grocery list and meal plan creation as well as nutritional analysis, it is available for free trial and download at www.bigoven.com. It just won “Best Cooking Software, 2008” in an independent, head-to-head roundup of ten competing recipe management programs by TopTenReviews.com. The founder, Steve Murch, has over three decades of experience in the personal computing industry, including executive-level experience at both Microsoft Corporation and Expedia, Inc.
About BigOven.com
BigOven.com is a rapidly-growing social network about food, with over 160,000+ recipes and 70,000+ members from around the world. Cooks can post recipes, photos, videos, and tips in an easy online archive, and search recipes in a variety of ways. First released in 2004, BigOven.com serves over 2 million pageviews each month, up more than four-fold over last year.
*Weight Watchers is a registered trademark of Weight Watchers International. BigOven.com has no affiliation with Weight Watchers, Inc.