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CHOW.com Mixes Up New Recipe Hack Feature Just in Time for the Holidays.


Popular Food and Drink Web Site Also Reveals Spirited Seasonal Line-up

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:CNET) (http://www.cnetnetworks.com), is rolling out an innovative recipe feature that allows food fanatics to publish and share their recipes with the CHOW community. With the holiday season already top-of-mind and plans underway, CHOW.com's new feature and content is perfect for gastronomes looking to spice up their traditions.

CHOW.com's first-of-its-kind Recipe Hack feature lets members change CHOW recipes to fit their own taste. The modifications are saved as new recipes, called "hacks," alongside the originals. The groundbreaking Recipe Hack feature is ideal for cooks who find themselves tweaking tweaking Vox populi Fine-tuning to produce optimal results  ingredient portions or who want to share their creative interpretations of familiar recipe standards. Unlike other online food sites, CHOW.com's relational database relational database

Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple.
 allows users to view all hacks made by other members, as well as track new submissions from favorite users and upload photos to present their handiwork in a visually appealing format.

"The holiday season is a wonderful time of year to spend with family and friends; however, it can be filled with pressure to be the ultimate host, always bringing something new to the table," says Jane Goldman Jane Goldman (born June 11, 1970) is a British writer and presenter of Jane Goldman Investigates, a paranormal series on LivingTV.

She became romantically involved with TV presenter Jonathan Ross when she was a 16-year-old pop columnist for the Daily Star
, editor-in-chief and vice president, CHOW.com. "CHOW gets it and we want to provide the tools and tips to spark people's creativity. We have a great line-up of holiday offerings sure to set new standards in entertaining."

CHOW.com will bring you a holiday that is anything but ordinary as it rolls out new content throughout the Holiday season, including:

* Neoslacker Interactive Thanksgiving (http://www.chow.com/stories/slackerthanksgiving): Sit back and enjoy the praise while your guests bring Thanksgiving to you. Interactive tools, loads of recipes, and an email invite interface that lets you dole out the work

* Holiday Cookie Challenge (http://www.chow.com/holidaycentral): Users put their favorite original holiday cookie recipe up for voting by the CHOW community, five will be tested in the CHOW Test Kitchen, and only one cookie master will be prominently featured on the CHOW front page

* Hanukkah Fried Food Favorites (http://www.chow.com/holidaycentral): A blowout of all things fried to celebrate the Festival of Lights

* Gingerbread gingerbread

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: Law and Order Edition (http://www.chow.com/holidaycentral): The most adorable gingerbread ever to see the inside of a courtroom. Memorialize me·mo·ri·al·ize  
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* Holiday How-To's (http://www.chow.com/holidaycentral): The scoop on every thing from "How to talk to boring relatives," to "Who has a right to take home holiday leftovers" and "How to deep fry a turkey (and what to do with all that leftover oil)?"

* Year in Food (http://www.chow.com/holidaycentral): An unabashed rundown of what really mattered in food in 2007

* Mochi New Year (http://www.chow.com/holidaycentral): Stock up on good fortune and ring in the New Year the traditional Japanese way, with a Mochi party

About CHOW.com

CHOW (http://www.chow.com), a property of CNET Networks, Inc., is an interactive media property for food and drink enthusiasts online. CHOW combines original editorial from the team that created CHOW Magazine with the passionate community of Chowhounds to create a different kind of food website for those who live to eat. CHOW includes recipes, tips for entertaining, restaurant reviews, trend stories, personality features and the opinionated o·pin·ion·at·ed  
adj.
Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions.



[Probably from obsolete opinionate : opinion + -ate1.
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