ModernistCuisine.com Adds
Six Great New Features

We’ve been thrilled by the recep­tion that Modernist Cuisine has received–not just in sales, which are a lot faster than we ini­tially expected, but also in the rapid growth of a com­mu­nity of cooks who have joined us here on ModernistCuisine.com, on the MC–related threads at eGul­let, on Facebook and Twitter, and else­where online. We’ve received lots of ter­rific sug­ges­tions from read­ers about ways in which we could enhance the web­site and bet­ter sup­port them as they explore the recipes and tech­niques sug­gested by Modernist Cuisine and other Modernist cook­books. Today we’re excited to announce the launch of a bunch of these new fea­tures, with even more to come soon.

Check out the freshly minted Cooking with MC area of the web­site for:

• Getting Started with the Recipes, which sug­gests recipes you might tackle first in Modernist Cuisine, whether you are just start­ing out as a cook, want to try using mod­ern ingre­di­ents, or are look­ing for a real culi­nary challenge;
• a Modernist Gear Guide for cooks who are look­ing to out­fit their kitchens with some new tools like those cov­ered in the book;
• a Recipe Library that allows you to quickly find all the recipes that the MC team has pub­lished here so far–a col­lec­tion that will grow over time as we peri­od­i­cally release new recipes and step-by-step guides to Modernist techniques;
• a remark­ably use­ful Recipe Finder that includes a com­plete list of all 1,500 or so recipes in the Kitchen Manual and allows you to instantly hone in on those that use any ingre­di­ent, tool, or tech­nique that you choose;
• a full Index to the Kitchen Manual, which is the addi­tion most requested by read­ers and is sup­plied in PDF form so that you can print it out and keep it with your set;
• a Keyword Search (tech­ni­cally, a con­cor­dance) that searches the full text of the book for any term you enter and dis­plays each page num­ber on which it appears, along with some sur­round­ing words for context.

All of these new fea­tures are free. But to get the most out of them, and to gain access to the Cooks Forum and Reader Gallery that we’re cur­rently con­struct­ing and expect to open soon, please reg­is­ter as a mem­ber of the site. Registered mem­bers can choose to receive new recipes by email before they appear on the web­site. If you have a copy of the book, be sure when you cre­ate your account to pro­vide infor­ma­tion about where and when you pur­chased your book, and then answer a val­i­da­tion ques­tion to gain Confirmed Owner sta­tus, which qual­i­fies you for exclu­sive offers.

We hope you enjoy all of these new fea­tures, and we look for­ward to your com­ments and sug­ges­tions.