where do people find food recipes?

Question

I'm *not* looking for recipes - I'm trying to find out *where* most people actually get their recipes. Common sense tells me: Word of mouth (family, friends, collegaues, internet communities); Search engines; Cookbooks; TV cooking shows; and so on and so on. But I really need some hard data to back up my suppositions! Any help at all would be very much appreciated...

Thanks everybody ;D

Answer 1

1. family over the years
2. friends
3. experimenting
4. internet- go to allrecipes.com
5. cooking shows- foodnetwork such as Emeril Live!
6. cookbooks
7. magazines- southern living
8. restaurants- chefs or owners a person would know

Answer 2

A few favorites come from my family, mostly my dad, since my mom didn't like to cook all that much. Those are the ones I really do cook on a regular basis. But I'm kind of a cookbook junkie too, and I've accumulated a few tried-and-trues that way too over the years. I really like Gourmet magazine too. The recipes are thoroughly-explained enough that I'm sometimes willing to try something more elaborate than I usually would, like making my own puff pastry or deboning a chicken. If I had cable TV I'd probably spend all day watching the Food Network--but I don't, luckily for me! I'll be interested to see what other responses you get.

By the way, where do you find yours?

:)

Answer 3

I get recipes from my family members and friends also food network and I also collect cookbooks only certain kinds I like the cookbooks that people put together with homemade recipes those are the best kinds I also check the Internet I go to yumyum.com, and also cooks.com I also get the taste of home magazines and I aslo look in other magazines too you can go to certain web sites and they have a recipe section and i also check those out too.

Answer 4

I've been watching cooking shows since I was a kid. Collected cookbooks along the way, and magazines. Now, when I'm curious about a recipe or a particular cuisine, I just Google it.

Answer 5

I've got a couple of recipe boxes on different sites. I use them to add new twists to old favorites or to figure out what spices go better together,depending on the dish. I also have recipes from family and friends. I've also got a couple of cookbooks.

Answer 6

My Mother gave me her recipes that I grew up on. Family and Friends too. Plus, I use an old stand by: Betty Crocker Cookbook or Taste of Home has Cooking Magazines and Books plus website; that's where I also get some of my recipes from. http://recipes.tasteofhome.com/eRMS/Browse.aspx?r_d=y

Answer 7

I make mine up most of the time. Usually adapting a recipe that I know from the past (usually a family recipe or cookbook) and making it vegan. I then put them up n my website www.recipesforvegans.co.uk

Answer 8

I get some from friends and family, some from cookbooks (although I mostly then adapt them) and a few I make up myself from messing in the kitchen. I've got 1 from Yahoo Answers as well

Answer 9

I get mine from a number of sites .. BHG.com is a good one; also, there's lot of good recipes, etc., on about.com .. Arcamax also has great newsletters of just about any category imaginable; some of them have great recipes the can be sent to your inbox regularly in newsletters. That's where I get alot of mine .. but that's only the beginning. Some of these I found by doing a search; others I got by word of mouth from others.

Answer 10

My Great Grandmother passed down recipes to my grandmother then to my mother and now my sister has them and it a file supper thick each person has added a few on the way from other family members and friends that have been meet on the way