New Food Court (V2.02)- A revised, updated and expanded Notion template of The Food Court - including the complete book "Designed to Cook"
VERSION 2.02 OF THE FOOD COURT
NEW: A comprehensive Tutorial has been added
A very comprehensive tool to collect, sort and select recipes, plan and schedule meals and do your shopping list. A platform and virtual library based on cross related databases (including 'Sources', 'Creators', 'Dishes', 'Products', 'Shopping List', 'Menus').
I am a collector, user and writer of cooking books. For 15 years I was organizing my recipes, cooking books, selections on paper, renewing my notes every now and then in time consuming efforts. NOTION opened the door to create my Food Court which I am using daily for selecting the dishes I want to do (next, some time, eventually, try,....), putting together the menus I offer my family and my guests and organizing my collections and any ideas or food related items I come across.
That said, you may get many ideas how to tailor the template to your needs. As for now, I am satisfied with the functionalities. However, why not adding a cooking school, Wikipedia links to products, nutrition, conversion tables. Rather than working on these ideas, I did a complete remake (inspired by new functions of Notion):
Aside of design changes (branding, clearer views,...) all functions have been reviewed, bugs eliminated, wild grown things removed. The Shopping List section has been completely redone. A new Menu page includes all you need to create your menus. You want to see your Meal Planner all the time? You decide in your Kitchen. The Navigation has been updated (using new Notion functions such as open as side peek etc.) providing more comfort in navigating the New Food Court. New views and functions in the Kitchen may be appreciated by you as well (eg a grouping function ... a necessity with now over 800 recipes in my personal Food Court
NOTE: The New Food Court - Notion template by Christoph Heyne, 2022, is for your private use only. Copying, except for your own backup needs, and in particular duplicating for distribution or sales to third parties is prohibited.
Be organized. You get a new book, enter the title in The Sources, The Creator (author) will be retrieved from - or newly edited in - The Creators. You want to quickly select and keep some recipes from that book. Enter them in The Kitchen. The source (eg book) and the creator (author) will be edited automatically. The Kitchen comes with abundant pre-installed views which reflect the way I am using the New Food Court, including recipes I want to do, recipes I will do very soon, new additions, sorted by authors, books, recipes I did very well and like to repeat or do regularly. As a user of Notion you will know how to adjust all of these views, or create new views, to cater your needs. Meal Planner and Shopping Lists are add-ons. Images shown are taken from my personal Food Court which meanwhile grew to contain more than 800 recipes and my entire cooking book collection. While I am taking photos of, or scan, the recipes and include those on the pages of the respective recipes, I needed to remove all of my private content for reasons of copyright protection. Therefore, the template comes basically as a blank template with a few examples. As a bonus, I integrated my book Designed to Cook (Vol. 1 - German language) in the Food Court. The English language edition can be downloaded from the folder DTC), more than 100 recipes of renown chefs in a new format: Cooking from top left to bottom right. A little cooking school.