Why not? I can make one. If I really wanted to. But no one would buy it. I think my friends wouldn’t mind me giving them one. So, I can make them, pay for them and give them away. For $34.95, Tastebook can get me published. Tastebook is a web startup company that provides tools for users to create their own recipe databases. Users can also share the databases with friends and publish books with content from the recipe databases.

Why didn’t I think of that? Founded by a couple of guys from Ofoto, Tastebook recently received an infusion of cash from CondéNet, the internet operations sub of Condé Nast Publications. Tastebook partnered with Epicurious.com, also a Condé Nast Publications sub, for providing initial content from Epicurious’ online recipe database which include over 25,000 recipes.

To create a cookbook, users collect recipes online from Epicurious (they say more content providers will be available in the future) or add their own. From there users get to decide which recipes they want in their cookbook, as well as the cookbook’s title, cover photo and more. I’ll make one titled “Recipes That Chicks will Totally Dig.”

Much love goes out to my childhood friend, Miss K, who sent info on this company to me. Great idea with a lot of potential. I just hope their site doesn’t turn into and advertising farm like the Food Network has become.

Yankees suck!