I hope many of you have experienced the direct connection between diet and health. While I try to keep an eye on this in my own life, nothing brought it home more than seeing a friend battle cancer to a standstill over a period of years through changing his lifestyle and diet. Duane and Tiffany at Transfer of Health (TOH) have a similar story.

Learn not only about healthy cooking, but so much additional research about simple changes to lifestyle that promote health and fitness in the whole family. Kitchen Monki works with many publishers promoting healthy lifestyles along with fun, fresh recipes. Join TOH’s healthy food community and try the great recipes Tiffany, a self-proclaimed “foodie”, makes available after testing them in her own kitchen.

Baking has always been enjoyable to me. Hearing people say, “There’s a party in my mouth!” is a tremendous feeling of accomplishment. Having a baking blog to share my recipes has been fun, although I’m really just getting started. My first blog started years ago as a way for me to show my mother, who lives about 800 miles away, the cakes I made for my kids’ birthdays. My decorating skills have improved over the years, and I’ve had people hire me to bake for them in recent months. I don’t really have the time it takes to manage a baking business, so I thought that sharing my recipes and tips would help other moms out when they need a great cake. In this economy, not everyone can afford gourmet bakery cakes that look like they were inspired by the Cake Boss, but maybe with my help, they can gain confidence in doing it themselves. I hope my blog will inspire people to give baking a try or take it to the next level. I’m not a pro by any means, but I would love to share my best recipes with anyone who wants them.

In order to share my recipes, I was looking for a way to let readers print the recipes without having to print the whole blog post. After running into a few glitches with some other programs, I found Kitchen Monki. Once I found Kitchen Monki, getting started was as simple as putting 2 lines of code into my blog. Not only does Kitchen Monki allow readers to print out a nice, organized sheet of paper with a recipe on it, it offers an incredible way to plan, organize, search, and share with the KM community. My readers can stay right on my blog page for my recipes, or they can click over to the main KM website and find endless recipes for their menus. I can hardly wait for my blog to pick up some more traffic so I can realize the immense potential the Kitchen Monki White Label holds.

The people of Kitchen Monki have been incredibly professional and kind as I’ve been getting things going. I hope I can make them proud that my blog ia a part of their community.

Jody
Red Mixer Bakery

If you live in Seattle, you certainly know the King5 channel for news and information. One of King5′s most popular shows is New Day Northwest, which brings on chefs and exciting new recipes each week. If you missed the show yesterday, or 6 months ago, not to worry.

King5 and Kitchen Monki have partnered to create King5′s own white label food community with a growing number of participating members viewing recipes, seeing the stored videos, using Kitchen Monki’s software tools, and even finding those same recipes on New Day Northwest’s Facebook page. As a publisher, King5 has it’s own sticky community and driving many more ongoing pageviews for all of that delicious food content created on the show.

Most of us find the obesity trends in this country and around the world very concerning. There are certainly no easy answers or quick fixes, either at the individual or macro levels. But Joyce Harrell and her practice at LowGlycemicSuccess.com are addressing the challenge holistically at the intersection of self-esteem and healthier dietary habits. Kitchen Monki a big supporter of Joyce’s mission and a partner of her business.

Cooking at home, especially reducing reliance on processed ingredients, can have a very positive impact on reducing sugar intake. Many folks do not understand that sugar (glycemic content) goes up drastically with food processing. So, as a simple example, packets of instant oatmeal are more glycemic than quick-cooking oats, which in turn are more glycemic than steel-cut oats. Find Joyce’s healthy recipes and use them as you wish with Kitchen Monki’s simple but powerful software for cooks.

I wish I could take some credit for some of the early premises in founding Kitchen Monki and its product platform. Instead, I talk about it to publishers nearly every day. When Sam and the founding team looked out on the market, one thing they noted is how traditional content management systems (CMS) that publishers use are really a poor fit for recipe and food content.


If you are a news site like our white label partners at King5 or a blogger (ie a “WordPress publisher”) jamming out recipes in a Kitchen Monki-enabled food community like Red Mixer Bakery, you likely have run into the constraints of your CMS. The history of CMS tells the tale. They were created first and foremost for television and newspaper sites. What is critical content on news sites like these? Whatever is new and timely – the big accident that disrupted the morning commute, a big storm coming in, local elections. The value of this content almost by definition degrades rapidly with time.


Kitchen Monki White Label for publishers was created specifically for food and recipe content, which has very different characteristics than news. In your white label food community, the most viewed recipe might be that Christmas prime rib from 3 years ago, or the turkey gravy from a post last Thanksgiving. Folks want to find these recipes easily and fast, and the age of the content is irrelevant. Or they may want to find a recipe using certain spices, or recipes with an Ethiopian theme for a party, or that takes less than 30 minutes to prepare, or that are low in saturated fat, or … you get the idea.


Check out how Kitchen Monki White Label will make your recipe content much more searchable and relevant through a simple but structured recipe taxonomy for each recipe you post, optimized for recipe search. Why does it matter for a publisher? More useful and findable recipes means more pageviews and hence more advertising revenue. Hopefully that soothes your stomach.


Rob Eleveld
Director of Monki Business

If you haven’t been to historic Virginia, please add it to your “bucket list”. Seeing the historic Williamsburg community is worth the visit by itself. But as a history buff, I really enjoyed visiting the battlefield park at Yorktown. There George Washington’s army combined with the perfect timing of the French fleet to drive Cornwallis and his British Army to defeat and surrender, forcing the king to make peace with our fledgling nation.





While you are there, check out Healthy Habits Historic Triangle (HHHT), a partnership of the Virginia Foundation and the local chamber of commerce to promote healthy eating and restaurants. HHHT promotes local farmers markets, healthy recipes, and a local restaurant exchange. Kitchen Monki is proud to partner with and support HHHT. We do love that local combination of fresh seafood and Virginia produce, topped with a nice helping of Southern hospitality.

Most of you by now know that Kitchen Monki isn’t just your run-of-the-mill recipe site. We allow our users to take their recipes and really do SOMETHING other than just cook from them. Whether it’s dragging them onto a cooking calender, creating an aisle-by-asile shopping list that can be sent to your (or anyone’s) mobile phone from them, embedding them like YouTube videos into blogs, or cataloguing them in iTunes-like fasion in a Recipe Explorer, Kitchen Monki has done it’s best make your food life a lot easier and fun at the same time.

Now, we’ve decided to take Kitchen Monki technology and spread the fun around to others with Kitchen Monki White Label. As our Top Banana, Sam Kinney said:

“There are so many sites with great recipes, but many of them are either too small or too focused on other content to invest much in recipe functionality. Kitchen Monki White Label makes it easy for them to embed a whole food community on their website.”

That being said, we are very happy to have partnered up with Seattle’s NBC affiliate, King5.com, to build their food community for the New Day Northwest TV show. All the power tools such as Bookmarking, Add to Queue, Add to List, and mobile shopping are now available on the show’s site because of Kitchen Monki’s embedded White Label.

Here’s Sam talking about it on the show:

Kitchen Monki is partnering with others to build more recipe communities. If you’re interested or know someone who might like the White Label for their website or blog, feel free to contact us!

I wanted to announce an exciting new development at Kitchen Monki. Those users who’ve been with us a while know that we’re unique in providing the tools cooks and families can use to manage their whole cooking life. Wouldn’t life be better if all recipes, everywhere would work with our automated tools?

Well, we can’t offer you all recipes everywhere, but we’re doing the next best thing. Now, other websites that publish recipes can use the Kitchen Monki White Label toolkit to offer the same power tools on their site that you’re accustomed to using on ours. There are so many sites with great recipes, but many of them are either too small or too focused on other content to invest much in recipe functionality. Kitchen Monki White Label makes it easy for them to embed a whole food community on their website. We look forward to signing up newspapers, television stations, bloggers and more as Kitchen Monki White Label partner sites.

Best of all, your personal content will be available when you sign into ANY partner account, meaning your recipes, queue, calendar, bookmarks, and grocery list are all right there, and all partner site recipes can be used just like recipes on our own site.

If you know a blogger, newspaper, or other possible White Label partner, let us know!

Sam Kinney
CEO & Top Monki

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