Foodily, the New Online Hub for Foodies

Ever noticed how the Google results for recipe searches are dominated by the big boys like AllRecipes, Epicurious, and the Food Network? The well-written and beautifully shot recipes posted by bloggers get buried below these behemoths with their huge page rank. But thanks to the launch of Foodily.com, there's a new way to search for recipes on the web that will help showcase the original work of food bloggers while giving readers a great tool to inspire their cooking.

I'm such a believer in the mission of the Foodily website that I signed on as one their ambassadors. The Foodily Beta launched earlier this month and was quickly hailed as the Facebook of Food. The site is populated with over one hundred thousand recipes, including 50 from yours truly. It is continually adding to its database by crawling web posts for hrecipe tags (HTML code that points to recipes). Foodily search is flexible and easy to use, easily letting you specify ingredients to include or exclude, as well as dietary restrictions such as gluten-free. So if you're looking for a gluten-free peach pie dessert but are allergic to almonds, you don't need to waste your time drooling over the wrong recipe.

I also love how Foodily has incorporated Facebook, so that you can see what recipes your friends have liked. It's like having a virtual cooking club, making the world wide web a little more personal. If you're having some friends for dinner and you're using Foodily for inspiration, you can even share your chosen menu with your guests on Facebook as part of your news feed or by creating a Facebook event.

But don't just take my word for it. Head on over to Foodily to take a look around. I can't wait to see what you like! Even the Foodily tagline is adorable: