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iPhone Owners Get Free Access to 160,000+ Recipes with New Recipe Search Service from BigOven.com

stevemur — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:59:15 GMT

IPHONE OWNERS GET FREE ACCESS TO 160,000+ RECIPES WITH NEW RECIPE SEARCH SERVICE FROM BIGOVEN.COM

SEATTLE, WA SEP 29 2008: BigOven.com, a rapidly-growing social network about food with 150,000+ members from around the world, announced the immediate availability of free recipe search for iPhone users. People can post their favorite recipes and photos to the site for free, and access them from anywhere.

“Now, if you’re at the grocery store, and don’t know what ingredients you need to make Chicken Cacciatore, simply visit www.bigoven.com from your iPhone, and bookmark it", said Steve Murch, CEO and Head Chef of BigOven.com. “You can enter general search terms like ‘easy breakfast eggs’ or ingredients from your fridge, and get some great suggestions”. BigOven for iPhone has specially tailored the interface to be clear and uncluttered for smaller cellphone displays.

Publish your Favorites, Carry Them With You It’s free to join BigOven.com, and members can easily build “Try Soon” and “Favorite” lists from a PC or Mac, then access them from their iPhone, Blackberry or web-enabled cellphone at the address www.bigoven.com/m

About BigOven.com

Seattle-based BigOven.com is a rapidly-growing social network about food, with over 160,000+ recipes and about 150,000 members from around the world. Cooks can post recipes, photos, how-to cooking videos, and tips for free and search recipes in a variety of ways, including “what’s fresh”, “leftover wizard”, flavor tags and more.

First released in 2004, BigOven.com now serves over 1.3 million unique visitors every month, up more than four-fold over last year. 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.

*iPhone is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.

Create your own Cookbook with BigOven and Sharedbook

stevemur — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:47:06 GMT

The BigOven Cookbook™ is a fast and simple way to gather and publish family or group recipe collections, including those that may be spread across multiple users around the world. BigOven Cookbooks make a thoughtful and unique gift, a great personal archive, or a useful fundraising item.

Seattle, WA and New York, NY (PRWEB) April 2, 2008 -- BigOven.com, a rapidly growing social network about food, and SharedBook Inc., the Reverse Publishing Platform provider, introduced the ability for anyone in the world to create custom and personalized cookbooks today. Visitors to BigOven.com, as well as users of BigOven's award-winning desktop recipe software can easily compile recipes, notes, stories and photographs in a choice of several professionally-printed formats.

As a company that focuses on simplifying the book making process as much as possible, we are delighted that BigOven is giving users the choice to start from scratch or select a themed book

When cooks post recipes and photographs to BigOven.com, there is no charge, and the materials can be tagged or assigned to a specific Cooking Group.

Unique to this solution, BigOven users can quickly and easily create a book from any set of search results on the site, including the many Cooking Groups that focus on specific diets, occasions, regional foods and types of cuisine, among others. Users can also compile individual recipes from their site Favorites if they choose.

"BigOven is committed to becoming the best and most innovative social network about food," said Steve Murch, Chief Executive Officer and Head Chef, BigOven.com. "The ability to create custom cookbooks has been a frequent request from the community. I look forward to seeing how our 90,000 members around the world use this easy service to create and publish their own cookbooks."

With just a few clicks, cooks can select the recipes they want to include in a book and the order in which they should appear, choose a cover design and title, and upload a cover photo. After the selections have been made, it just takes one click of a mouse and a few seconds to generate an online preview of the completed book product.

The user then has a choice of previewing the book and purchasing it immediately, or personalizing it further. This is when personal notes, stories and photographs can be added. The application is also fully collaborative, enabling users to invite family and friends into their personal and secure book making space to contribute additional information. Individuals invited into the space can also make their own book if they like.

"As a company that focuses on simplifying the book making process as much as possible, we are delighted that BigOven is giving users the choice to start from scratch or select a themed book," said Caroline Vanderlip, Chief Executive Officer, SharedBook Inc. "The BigOven Cookbook is also a perfect example of the type of application that can be built using SharedBook's API, which is available for all to use."

Pricing begins at $29.95 in a perfect bound softcover format and $38.99 for a coil in case bound format for lay-flat use in the kitchen. These prices include a full-color 20-page book with free U.S. shipping and a readable flipbook version of the book that can be virally distributed. Additional pages can be added at a rate of $1 for each additional two pages.

For those that have large collections of handwritten or electronic recipes, White Glove Service is available for an additional $25 fee. Recipes can be sent to SharedBook for scanning, or submitted electronically if the content is already in Word or e-mail format. SharedBook will then add the recipes to the cookbook.

For more information, or to create your own keepsake cookbook, please go to BigOven.com.

About BigOven.com
Seattle-based BigOven.com is a rapidly-growing social network about food, with over 160,000 recipes and 90,000+ members from around the world. Cooks can post recipes, photos, how-to cooking videos, and tips for free and search recipes in a variety of ways, including "what's fresh", "leftover wizard", flavor tags and more.

First released in 2004, BigOven.com now serves over a million visitors each month, up more than five-fold over last year. The founder, Steve Murch, is an avid cook with over three decades of experience in the personal computing industry, including executive-level experience at both Microsoft Corporation and Expedia, Inc.

About SharedBook
SharedBook Inc. is a technology company that specializes in integrating and publishing data from various sources into a structured book product that can sit as a flipbook on the Internet or be professionally printed. The company's collaborative on-demand Reverse Publishing Platform allows users to extract data and content from multiple sources, manipulate it, and then distribute their unique creation in digital or hard copy format. SharedBook partners include Allrecipes.com, Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Canyons Resort, CarePages, Inc. (a division of Revolution Health Group), Exposures, 4-H, FuneralNet, Herff Jones, Inc., JumpTV Sports, Legacy.com, Little League International®, The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc., Random House, Inc., Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Sportography, Inc., Steamboat Ski Resort, YAVarsity.com, and Yosemite. For more information, please go to www.sharedbook.com or http://blog.sharedbook.com.

Get Unstuck at the Grocery Store: Search Recipes from your Blackberry or iPhone Free! (Beta)

stevemur — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:12:13 GMT

GET UNSTUCK AT THE GROCERY STORE:
BIGOVEN.COM OPENS UP FREE 160,000+ RECIPE SEARCH
TO BLACKBERRY®, IPHONE®, ALL OTHER WEB-CELLPHONE USERS

SEATTLE, WA FEB 20 2008: BigOven.com, a rapidly growing social network about food with 160,000+ recipes and 80,000+ members from around the world, announced the beta availability of mobile search of its vast recipe archive. Simply visit (and bookmark) the link http://www.bigoven.com/m

“Now, if you’re at the grocery store, and don’t know what ingredients you need to make Quiche Lorraine, simply visit “BigOven.com slash M” on your mobile phone” said Steve Murch, CEO and Head Chef of BigOven.com. “You can also enter general search terms like ‘easy breakfast eggs’ or ingredients from your fridge, and get some great suggestions”. BigOven.com has specially tailored the interface to be clear and uncluttered for smaller cellphone displays.

It’s free to join BigOven.com, and members can easily build “Try Soon” and “Favorite” lists at www.bigoven.com at their convenience from their desktops, then access them from their iPhone, Blackberry or web-enabled cellphone.

About BigOven.com

Seattle-based BigOven.com is a rapidly-growing social network about food, with over 160,000+ recipes and 80,000+ members from around the world. Cooks can post recipes, photos, how-to cooking videos, and tips for free and search recipes in a variety of ways, including “what’s fresh”, “leftover wizard”, flavor tags and more.

First released in 2004, BigOven.com now serves over 2 million pageviews each month, up more than four-fold over last year. 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.

*Blackberry is a registered trademark of Research In Motion, Inc. and iPhone is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.

Announcing BigOven Groups - BigOven Food Social Network continues to grow

stevemur — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:50:01 GMT

BigOven.com

chefmail@bigoven.com

Press Release

Contact: Steve Murch, Head Chef

Steve.Murch@bigoven.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

9 A.M. EDT, January 11, 2008

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.

Are you the next Rachael Ray? Star in Your Own Online Cooking Show!

stevemur — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:26:50 GMT

Are you the next Rachael Ray? Star in Your Own Online Cooking Show!

BigOven.com Adds User-To-User Cooking Videos to Rapidly Growing Food Social NetworkSeattle, Washington,

October 30 2007: BigOven.com, a rapidly growing social network about food with over 160,000 recipes and 60,000 registered members, announces the immediate availability of BigOven Video. “BigOven is all about sharing great cooking, and this is a terrific way for family members to document and pass along their time-honored recipes and tips this holiday” said Steve Murch, founder and head chef of BigOven.com.

Videos can be uploaded for free to BigOven.com in one of four popular formats (.AVI, .MOV, .WMV, .FLV). Alternatively, if the video is already posted on YouTube, one need only provide the YouTube URL, and BigOven’s servers will fetch it. Videos can be tagged with an unlimited number of keywords for flavor, cuisine, technique, ingredient list or more, just like the recipes in the 160,000 recipe archive.Unlike other video sharing sites, BigOven is exclusively focused on food, and all videos are reviewed by an editor before going live. The result is much higher quality and more focused content. There is no charge for the video hosting service. BigOven reserves the right to accept or reject videos.

About BigOven.com

BigOven is a rapidly growing and innovative social network about food. With traffic up 400% year-over-year, and over 160,000 recipes now on the system, it’s a great place to go to find virtually any recipe. BigOven brings innovative features like tagging, Try Soon Queues, RSS Feeds and more to the world of food. BigOven’s unique “Leftover Wizard” (http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard2.aspx) lets any cook enter up to 3 ingredients from their fridge to use up what’s on hand.

Unlike other recipe sites, BigOven also offers optional, award-winning desktop recipe organizer for Windows which seamlessly integrates with the online archive. With BigOven for Windows™, cooks can instantly import any recipe from the archive with a click of the mouse, then drag and drop it onto a shopping list (complete with resizing), to generate a grocery list sorted by aisle. Meal plans can also be created with similar drag-and-drop ease, and a grocery list can then be created for any date range. BigOven’s unique "Try Soon" Queue™ helps get users unstuck. All free members of BigOven.com have an online “Try Soon” queue, letting them build a step-by-step list of what to try next. Further, other users can place suggestions directly onto the Try Soon Queue for others, making it easy to suggest a recipe for a friend for family member.About Lakefront Software, Inc.Lakefront Software Inc., makers of BigOven (http://www.bigoven.com), is focused building the leading social network in the food category and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. Founded by Steve Murch, an executive from Microsoft, Expedia, and VacationSpot.com, Lakefront Software Inc. is passionate about making software and the Internet work for consumers at home.

Oct 30: BigOven.com Releases Several New Innovative Features for Rapidly Growing Cooking Community Site

stevemur — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:23:30 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:
   Steve Murch
   BigOven.com
   www.bigoven.com

BigOven.com Releases Several New Innovative Features for Rapidly Growing Cooking Community Site

BigOven Makes An All-Out Assault On the "What Do I Make Tonight?" Problem

Seattle, Washington, October 30th: BigOven.com, a rapidly growing online cooking community with over 160,000 recipes and tens of thousands of registered members, announces the immediate availability of several new features:

   - Ingredient Insight™, a new and automatic visual display of a recipe's key ingredients
   - 1,000+ Article Cook's Dictionary, with Tips, Photos and More
   - Improved LeftoverWizard, helping you use up things in your fridge
   - "Try Soon" Queues To Help Get You Unstuck For Dinner
   - Chef Medals that you can award to others for great recipes or photos

"I created BigOven because I enjoy cooking. Even though recipe sites on the web abound, I strongly felt that there were a lot of potential ways to dramatically improve recipe sharing, organization, and discovery with great innovation", said Steve Murch, founder & CEO.

BigOven's Unique Ingredient Insight™ Automatically Provides Visual Analysis of a Recipe's Ingredients

Since BigOven shipped in 2004, users have been able to easily participate in an online recipe swap by tagging their recipes and posting (or, conversely, importing) them to and from the online recipe swap with a single click of the mouse.

Now, when recipes are posted to the shared recipe archive, BigOven will automatically inspect the ingredients, and link that recipe's ingredients up to articles in the Food Glossary. Even better, on the recipe page itself, BigOven will show a photographic list of the key ingredients. The result is much easier and more natural discovery of new flavor combinations - you can scan the recipe text and almost taste the flavor combinations yourself! (For instance, visit any recipe, such as http://www.bigoven.com/recipe157535 ). All 160,000+ recipes on the archive have Ingredient Insight enabled automatically.

BigOven's Food Dictionary Provides Buying Tips, Storage Tips, Substitutions, History, and More BigOven has over 1,000 Food Glossay items, and more are being added every day. Articles include photos, buying tips, storage and usage tips, and a little bit of the history or lore surrounding the item. Simply visit www.bigoven.com and enter an ingredient name into the Find box to learn more about it.

BigOven's LeftoverWizard Discovers Ways To Use Up Items In Your Fridge

BigOven's unique LeftoverWizard (http://www.bigoven.com/ingredientwizard.aspx) lets you enter up to 3 ingredients from your fridge/pantry, and it'll show you what you can make with it, sorted by overall community score.

"Try Soon" Queues Get You Unstuck

Ever browse a recipe website, getting great ideas, but then when 3pm rolled around you were still left wondering what to make tonight? BigOven's "Try Soon Queue" lets you build up a step-by-step list of recipes that you'd like to try in the near future. You can even have BigOven schedule e-mailings to you on a regular basis. Recipe pages display who is trying which recipe soon.

You can even suggest new recipes for your friend's Try Soon Queues, simply by clicking "Suggest to Friend". This will add the recipe, along with a quick (public) note, to the recipient's Try Soon Queue. Help your friends get unstuck!

Chef Medals Are a Fun Way To Reward Quality in the BigOven Community

BigOven's unique Chef Medals feature is a fun and free way to enhance the quality of our community. Each month, BigOven members get 5 (and only 5) free medals they can award. A current tally of the top Medal Holders is available on the Find menu of www.bigoven.com.

About BigOven by Lakefront Software, Inc.

BigOven is a recipe sharing network for the Web, Windows and Mobile Devices. With a free recipe archive with over 160,000 recipes, plus optional, award-winning desktop recipe software for Windows, cooks around the world can create meal plans, shopping lists, organize and share their favorite recipes easily. Founded by Steve Murch, an executive from Microsoft, Expedia, and online travel, Lakefront Software Inc. is passionate about making software and the Internet work for consumers at home.

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Feb-22-2006: BigOven Releases Free Google Toolbar Button

stevemur — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:33:05 GMT

(Seattle, February 22^nd, 2006) BigOven.com, a rapidly growing social network for food, recipes and meal planning, announces the immediate availability of a free custom search button for the Google Toolbar version 4.

About BigOven

BigOven is a complete suite of recipe management applications for the Web, Windows, Palm and Windows Mobile devices, integrated with an online archive of over 150,000 recipes. Cooks of all experience levels can easily swap and rate recipes with anyone around the world. Recipes in the archive has been categorized (“tagged”) into a “folksonomy” by cooks, and can be easily searched in a variety of interesting ways, for instance “spicy chinese chicken”, “winter casserole”, “advance breakfast”, “kid dessert”.

For instance, cooks can come to BigOven.com to quickly find exciting ways to use up the ingredients in their fridge simply by naming 1-5 ingredients in the search, e.g., “garlic lemon mushroom”, or “leftover chicken”.

With the new Google Toolbar custom search button, anyone can find recipes with comments and ratings simply by typing the recipe name into their Google Toolbar window and pressing the BigOven stove icon.

“BigOven has just made it easier for anyone with the Google Toolbar to quickly find what to make for dinner” said Steve Murch, founder and CEO of Lakefront Software, Inc., publisher of BigOven.

Free Download

To install the IE BigOven recipe search button, simply visit www.bigoven.com and click on the “Google Toolbar Custom Search” link in the lower left corner.

In addition, BigOven for Windows, an award-winning recipe management application for Windows PC’s, lets people organize and share their recipe collection:

- Recipe tagging: People can work together to tag recipes with keywords like “spicy”, “grill”, “low-carb”, any way they choose.

- Co

Oct-18-2005: BigOven Searches for Most Mouth-Watering Food Photo

stevemur — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:10:10 GMT

BigOven.com by Lakefront Software, Inc.
For Immediate Release

October 18, 2005

For more information contact: Steve Murch (206) 849-0437; mailto:Steve.Murch@bigoven.com

BigOven Searches for Most Mouth-Watering Food Photo

$2,000 in prizes to be awarded in fun, free contest for amateur food photographers

Seattle, WA (October 18, 2005) - Do you like to cook? Do you have a digital camera BigOven.com announces it is searching for the most Mouth Watering Food Photograph taken by an amateur photographer, and is queuing up roughly $2,000 in prizes to find it!

BigOven.com (http://www.bigoven.com), a fun and comprehensive recipe sharing community for the Web, Windows, and mobile devices, announces the BigOven Amateur Food Photo Contest 2005. Prizes will be awarded for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd “Most Mouth-Watering Recipe Photo”, as well as 1st and 2nd “Most Photos Submitted”. (Prizes to be announced in January 2006.)

How to Enter

Simply submit the best recipe photos between now and December 31st, 2005, and you could win a grand prize of up to $1,000 in kitchen equipment! There are no entry restricitons, no cost to enter, and multiple entries are encouraged. All submissions must be received by December 31st, 2005. Visit http://www.bigoven.com/recipe-photo-contest.htm for more details.

About BigOven

BigOven (www.bigoven.comNew BigOven Windows Mobile Companion Lets People Retrieve Their Favorite Recipes Wirelessly via BigOven.com Web Services

(Seattle, October 3, 2005) BigOven.com, a rapidly growing Web and Windows® PC recipe sharing network, announces the immediate availability of a free Windows Mobile Companion that lets cooks tap into the recipes they’ve marked as “Favorite” or “Try Soon” on the web.

BigOven is a complete suite of recipe management applications for the Web, Windows, Palm and Windows Mobile devices. At www.bigoven.com, cooks can find virtually any recipe instantly from over 150,000 recipes online. In addition, BigOven for Windows, a downloadable recipe management application for Windows PC’s, lets people organize and share their recipe collection:

- Recipe tagging: People can work together to tag recipes with keywords like “spicy”, “grill”, “low-carb”, any way they choose.

- Cooks can create meal plans and grocery lists simply by dragging and dropping recipe cards

- Recipe sharing: Recipes can be posted to the online recipe archive, shared with cooks around the world, who can try out then rate the recipe

- Recipe photo sharing: Photos can be posted for any given recipe, and imported into the award-winning BigOven for Windows recipe software with a single click of the mouse.

May-30-2005: BigOven.com Brings Popular "Tagging" Feature to Recipes and Cooking Category

stevemur — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:34:08 GMT

BigOven.com Brings Popular “Tagging” Feature to Recipes and Cooking Category

Tens of thousands of cooks around the world now use the award-winning recipe software and online archive to tag and swap recipes online

(PRWEB) May 28, 2005 -- BigOven, a rapidly growing Web and Windows® PC recipe sharing network, announces the immediate availability of several new features for its innovative recipe sharing network:

- Free recipe archive: Search 150,000 recipes instantly!
- Recipe tagging: Recipes can be tagged with keywords like “spicy”, “grill”, “low-carb” and more, and posted to the site.
- Photo posting and sharing online: Photos can be posted for any given recipe, and imported into the award-winning BigOven for Windows recipe software with a single click of the mouse.
- Search-as-you-type: Recipes can be quickly found by title or ingredient as you type. See http://www.bigoven.com/find.aspx
- Leftover Wizard: Simply type up to three ingredients in your refrigerator or pantry, and BigOven instantly tells you what you can make. See http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard.aspx
- Recipe sharing: Recipes can be posted to the online recipe archive, shared with cooks around the world, who can try out then rate the recipe

About BigOven’s Group Tagging
BigOven for Windows users can post as many recipes as they want, free of charge, to the shared online recipe archive at www.bigoven.com. They simply enter the recipe into the program and click the “Post Recipe” button on the toolbar. Cooks can “tag”, or mark up, a recipe with keywords indicating its cuisine, ingredients, style of cooking, occasion served, diet style and more. Other cooks can then see all tags within a particular category, essentially creating a browsing structure designed by the user community, rather than a set of editors.

“By posting their favorite recipes and tagging them with descriptive terms of their own choosing, BigOven becomes more naturally organized the more people use it. Since other cooks can try and rate recipes, that are posted, it’s like having a giant, shared test kitchen used by people around the world.”

BigOven combines powerful desktop recipe organization software with seamless access to an online recipe archive. Using the latest XML and Microsoft .NET technologies, BigOven is able to provide the benefits of both a massive shared recipe archive with the quick data entry and recipe storage features of desktop software.

Since its first release in February 2004, BigOven has received 5/5 stars from sixteen consecutive independent reviews, including the highest possible honors at Tucows, Softpicks.net, Sofotex, Global Shareware, TopPicks.net and Promaxum. BigOven also received mention as Pick of the Day by USAToday.com and ZDNet. In October, BigOven earned the Windows User Group Networks (WUGNET's) coveted "Shareware Hall of Fame" and "Shareware Pick of the Week" designations, awarded to less than 2% of applications they review. BigOven has also been featured by Microsoft's WindowsMarketplace.com as a top shareware pick.

System requirements
BigOven for Windows requires a PC with Microsoft Windows® 98 / 98SE / 2000 / NT / XP and 15 Mb of memory. The Palm OS BigOven Recipe Companion requires PalmOS version 3.0 or higher. The BigOven Windows Mobile Companion requires a Windows Mobile Pocket PC with the .NET Compact Framework installed, and 1Mb of free memory.
Price and Availability

Download a Free Trial At http://www.bigoven.com .

BigOven for Windows is free to try for 30 days, $29.95 to pur

Jan-18-2005: BigOven.com's Groundbreaking Leftover Wizard(tm) Helps Everyday Cooks

stevemur — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:36:24 GMT

BigOven.com by Lakefront Software, Inc.
For Immediate Release

January 18, 2005

For more information contact: mailto:press@bigoven.com

BigOven.com’s Groundbreaking Leftover Wizard™ Helps Everyday Cooks Save Money and Get Inspired

Stretch your food dollar further with a simple, free online tool

Seattle, WA (January 18, 2005) - Lakefront Software Inc., publisher of the award-winning BigOven(tm) for Windows recipe software (http://www.bigoven.com), announces the immediate availability of the free Leftover Wizard online at http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard.aspx. Type in any ingredients in your fridge, and BigOven will instantly search over 150,000 recipes to suggest things you can make.

“We Americans waste far too much perfectly good food every day”, said Steve Murch, BigOven recipe software founder and avid chef. “We’ve put the BigOven Leftover Wizard online, free of charge, to help everyday cooks figure out how to best use up things in their fridge, pantries and cupboards. It doesn’t matter if you’re on a budget or not – you should always be making the most of the food you buy.”

In 1998, the Worldwatch Institute estimated that 26 million more people in the world could be fed with the world’s food production if Americans reduced their food consumption by a third.

Now, everyday cooks don’t have to throw away quite as much food. Simply visit http://www.bigoven.com/leftoverwizard.aspx type in any three ingredients into the BigOven Leftover Wizard, and you can find what to make. For example, entering “chicken”, “carrot” and “asparagus” will lead you to dozens of great choices, as will “pineapple”, “sesame” and “tofu”. Try it free, and bookmark the page for easy access.

About BigOven for Windows Recipe Software

BigOven for Windows is an award-winning, easy to use recipe organization and meal planning system for Windows.

It lets you easily create shopping lists and meal plans from recipes quickly simply by dragging and dropping. BigOven users on the Internet can swap recipes with each other without retyping. It can

Nov-22-04: BigOven Recipe Software Makes Holiday Entertaining Easier

stevemur — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:34:59 GMT

BigOven Recipe Software Makes Holiday Entertaining Easier

Discover holiday recipes in the massive 150,000+ recipe archive, use your PalmOS or Windows Mobile PDA to shop, share your best recipes by email… even use up your leftovers easily with the new BigOven 1.8!

Seattle, WA (November 22, 2004) - Lakefront Software, Inc. announces the immediate availability of BigOven(tm) for Windows 1.8 (http://www.bigoven.com), the easiest way for holiday cooks to plan their holiday meals, share delicious recipes with family and invited guests, and cook more nutritious meals. BigOven for Windows combines award-winning, powerful and versatile Windows-based recipe software with one-click searchable access to a massive 150,000+ recipe archive.

"With BigOven version 1.8", said Steve Murch, president and avid chef, "we've brought the holiday cook a complete suite of award-winning tools to make their cooking easier, from meal planning to grocery shopping… to even using up the leftovers."

Bring your PDA to the Store! BigOven's Unique PDA Companions Make Grocery Shopping Easier

A brand new PalmOS-based recipe manager that complements BigOven recipe software is now available for free download at www.bigoven.com. (A separate application is also available free for Windows Mobile users.) This means that handheld PDA users can now carry their favorite recipes, as well as their current grocery list to the store and into the kitchen. Simply select the recipes you'd like and choose "Publish to Mobile Device" and any set of recipes - including the next two week's worth of recipes on the cook's personal meal calendar - are automatically exported and grouped conveniently by aisle. A handy checklist lets them check off items as they are dropped into the shopping cart.

Discover Great Holiday Recipes

BigOven's recipe archive contains over 150,000 recipes, and new recipes are posted and rated by users around the world every day. BigOven lets you import any that you'd like with a single click of the mouse. From there, you can drag and drop recipes onto a shopping list, automatically creating a combined, sorted grocery list in seconds. Or, you can drag and drop them onto a Microsoft Outlook-style calendar, and generate sorted shopping lists quickly and easily for any date range.

Share Recipes With Guests and Family In Three Easy Ways

BigOven goes well beyond dedicated recipe software of the past, making the Int

Oct 4-04 SDMVentures is now Lakefront Software, Inc.

stevemur — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:33:14 GMT

October 4, 2004: Seattle, WA

SDMVentures has officially changed its name to Lakefront Software, Inc.

July 30, 2004: BigOven 1.5 Heats up Recipe Sharing

stevemur — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:32:20 GMT

BigOven 1.5 Heats Up Recipe Sharing

Access, Organize and Share Recipes Online with a New Level of Ease

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SDMVentures announces the immediate availability of BigOven 1.5 (http://www.bigoven.com), an easy new way for cooks to discover great recipes, share their best recipes with friends and family, and cook more nutritious meals. BigOven for Windows combines award-winning, powerful and versatile Windows-based recipe software with one-click searchable access to a massive 150,000+ recipe archive.

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) July 30, 2004 -- SDMVentures announces the immediate availability of BigOven 1.5 (www.bigoven.com), an easy new way for cooks to discover great recipes, share their best recipes with friends and family, and cook more nutritious meals. BigOven for Windows combines award-winning, powerful and versatile Windows-based recipe software with one-click searchable access to a massive 150,000+ recipe archive.

"With BigOven version 1.5", said Steve Murch, founder and avid chef, "we believe we've really pushed the ease-of-use to a new level in the cooking software category for everyday cooks, while also delivering the best way for everyone to share their favorite recipes online."

Do More With Recipes You Have

BigOven lets users drag and drop recipes onto a shopping list, automatically creating a combined, sorted grocery list in seconds. Advance meal planners can also drag and drop recipes onto an Outlook-style calendar, and then create shopping lists automatically for any date range.

Quickly Enter Recipes Into BigOven from Virtually Any Source

BigOven's recipe archive contains more than 150,000 recipes shared on the Internet over the years by users around the world, from breakfast through appetizers through mixed drinks. (In a traditional printed cookbook format, this would reach a stack more than three stories high.) Users can search this recipe collection easily from within BigOven, and import any they choose to their desktop PC with a simple click of the mouse for rating, editing, resizing, and more.

Those who already have one or more favorite sources of recipes will find BigOven a handy complement, and a place to organize them in one convenient location. Users can browse the web from within the program, and BigOven's unique "Screen Import" feature lets users grab recipe text quickly from the Windows clipboard with just a few simple clicks of the mouse. BigOven will also uniquely instantly recognize recipe text pasted in the popular "Exported from MasterCook" text format. BigOven can also import files from many older recipe program formats (MasterCook .MXP, .MX2, MealMaster .MMF, Cook'n .DBF), making it quick to build a starting collection of recipes, from slow-cooker to barbeque to popular diet c

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