Translating a recipe from Spanish or Russian into English on CookEatShare is now as easy as a click of a button.  English speakers who know a little Spanish can now add Spanish as a language preference and browse Spanish recipes.  If they understand some of the recipe, but not all, they can see it translated into English with a click of a button.  If there are some errors with the machine translation, which there usually are, a user can then edit the translation and save it.  This will benefit future users who want to see a translated version of that recipe.

CookEatShare is just beginning to take off in Spanish speaking countries.  As it does, the “Translate” functionality will ensure that English speakers get access to the phenomenal recipes that are added in Spanish speaking countries, and vice-versa!

Think you’ve got the world’s best cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie recipe?  Put it to the test in the CookEatShare’s first annual Thanksgiving Recipe Contest.  You’ll have a chance to win one of several must-have prizes from KitchenAid.

Now through Sunday, November 9th you can submit your recipe by going to the KitchenAid Thanksgiving Recipe Contest page on CookEatShare.  Finalists will be chosen based on the number and quality of ratings each receives on CookEatShare.  So make sure you invite friends and family to vote for you!

Once the top eight recipes are selected through visitor-votes, a team of professional chefs will prepare the winning recipes for an exclusive tasting event and judging panel hosted by Chef Alex Marsh at San Francisco’s popular Brick Restaurant on Tuesday, November 11th.  The tasting and judging will feature a panel including Chef Marsh, Chef Nate Appleman of A16 fame, Chef Jeremy Cheng of Town, and Chef Bill Hutton of Draeger’s Cooking School.

Enter now at http://www.cookeatshare.com/contests/1

Ever wanted to see the full size picture of a dinner, dessert or another member featured on CookEatShare?  Well now you can with the newly released Lightbox functionality.  Just click on any picture (except small thumbnails) and the full size photo will show up in a Lightbox. You can then page through any other photos in the lightbox.  For very large images it can take some time for your browser to load the full image.  But be patient because the results are worth it!  To see an example follow this link and click on the image.

http://cookeatshare.com/recipes/dungeness-chili-crab-420

Thanks to the members who requested this and to our awesome developer who put this together in his spare time!