The following year, I signed a book deal to write and photograph my cookbook.

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Furthermore, Evernote has completely redesigned the app in version two-dot-oh, making it easier for iOS users to clip and save recipes thanks to the new "My Cookbook" feature, as well as help keep track of recently visited restaurants without ever having to step out of the session.

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Breaking those down: Explore is a compiled list of Evernote-suggested recipes, My Cookbook stores clipped recipes from the main Evernote app and around the web, Restaurants lets you discover and bookmark places to eat (you can even make OpenTable reservations) and My Meals is essentially a food journal.

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And right then and there my pecan pie recipe, the one that I'd found in the cookbook my grandmother gave me, became the new family recipe.

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As the meeting wound down, I headed home with a few killer recipes in my pocket and the determination to start a cookbook club of my own.

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"I've never seen you this excited, " said my friend Alison, a cookbook designer, when Lolo presented the Raveneau.

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My cake recipe comes, naturally, from the "Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, " and the whole thing goes really well with a glass of Beaumes de Venise.

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This week, his debut cookbook, "Try This at Home: Recipes from My Head to Your Plate, " will be released and it features more than 100 simple twists on classic dishes.

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