Digital Chef Partners With Publishers to Provide Recipes From Cookbooks

Posted on December 19, 1997

Digital Chef, Inc. has announced an agreement with leading cookbook publishers Random House, Alfred A. Knopf, Crown/Clarkson Potter, HarperCollins, IDG Books, Doubleday and Broadway that allows consumers a new method for trying recipes from a cookbook before they buy it.

Digital Chef's Cookbook Showcase allows Internet users to sample select recipes representative of a particular cookbook's depth and style, as well as discover new authors and titles. The agreement makes Digital Chef a comprehensive online source for sampling cookbook recipes and represents a unique cooperative effort between traditional "print" publishers and an "online" publisher.

By browsing a weekly selection of cookbooks in the Cookbook Showcase or searching by type of food, region or author, Digital Chef users will be able to find and sample recipes from new cookbooks such as Delia Smith's Winter Collection (Random House), Marcella Cucina (HarperCollins), Latin American Cooking Across the USA (Alfred A. Knopf), Gourmet Cooking for Dummies (IDG), Alfred Portale's Gotham Bar & Grill Cookbook (Doubleday) and Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone (Broadway), or best-selling classics like Jasper White's Cooking from New England (HarperCollins) and Tapas by Penelope Casas (Alfred A. Knopf). Other interactive features within Digital Chef then allow the home cook to adjust the recipe for any number of servings, get nutrition information and prepare a shopping list.