Crowdsourced Holiday recipes? Bring it on! via epicureselections.com

It’s just a few more days before the holidays, have you prepared what you’re planning to cook for your friends and loved ones? Let the crowd help you out!

Amateur and professional cooks all over the world are sharing ideas together, coming up and bringing their own cooking styles on the table by collaborating through recipe websites. (Almost) gone are the days where one has to take that 100 kilogram recipe book from Nan’s attic, as now it’s just a touch of one’s iPad to get the latest recipes for the holidays.

Feeling gluttonous? User-submitted variations on celebrity chefs’ recipes and professional cooks merge together so you can take what you want and make those recipes your own. As with any crowdsourced collaborations, there should still be some sort of separation between user-submitted recipes and professional ones.

A food historian, Haber is still somewhat skeptical of the entire idea. The difference, he says is that “The good cookbooks have test kitchens and whole staffs of people whose job it is to go over and over the recipes.” - a good point at that. But the good thing about this is that you have more choices and decide on what’s best for your plans.

Just be sure to save some space on your tummy for mom’s Christmas ham, or else!

You can also share your ideas for holiday dinners with us! Check out our seeded idea for Holiday Dinners on YourOpenIdeas

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