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When you do, facebook will add an item to your newsfeed like the following example:

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We wish your family a safe and deliriously happy holiday season, including a Merry Christmas a Happy Hanukkah (and any other holiday you may celebrate). Enjoy good food, good friends and great wine!

Have a happy new year, and we’ll celebrate We Eatt’s 1 year birthday in January 09!

The most popular recipes on We Eatt today have been Thanksgiving recipes. Here’s a rundown of some of our favorites:

Breads

• Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Pumpkin Spread

Sides and Casseroles

• Broccoli-Rice Casserole
• Pumpkin Grits
• Corn Pudding

Dressings

• Cornbread Dressing
• Nancy’s Holiday Dressing

Turkey

• Alton Brown Roast Turkey (on food network)
• Paula Dean Deep Fried Turkey (on food network)

Pies and Desserts

• Pie of The Pumpkin Gods
• Pumpkin Gooey Cake
• Pecan Pie
• Chocolate Pecan Pie

To find more, you can search for Thanksgiving, view all tags with thanksgiving, or explore the sides.

Good luck tomorrow, and thanks for using We Eatt.

We’re adding capacity to our We Eatt servers tonight (12 Nov 2008), so you may experience a little downtime during the transition. We’ll be updating our Status page when we start and end the migration, so check over there if we’re down over here.

The new server will have more memory; we love and highly recommend SliceHost for your web needs.

Sorry for the downtime on Sunday, October 12, 2008. We Eatt was unavailable for about an hour.

Our provider logged that we were using up too much memory, which caused them to reboot our server.

We updated at status.weeatt.com and will post a technical explanation there.

We hope this doesn’t happen again

It’s not just us! We’re cooking more at home now than we ever have; the economy is encouraging (and sometimes forcing) families to spend less time and money at restaurants, but more time at home cooking. We couldn’t be happier! I think the more we know about food and about cooking, the more we appreciate what restaurants do to put quality food consistently on our plates.From the article: 

It saves you a lot more money if you just buckle down and focus on eating at home

And cooking magazines and Web sites are booming even as magazine sales overall have suffered.

About 45 percent of Americans are eating out less this year to save money

 Read more at Chilly Economy fires up Home Cooking

It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Ike hit Houston. Over 80% of the city now has power and things are returning to normal.We Eatt was able to weather the storm with no performance problems, which is pretty cool.It’s designed to be self sufficient, and for the most part is (save the rare service restarts that we document on http://status.weeatt.com).Thanks for using We Eatt, we love having you here! 

We’re based in a suburb just outside of Houston, which is in the direct path of Hurricane Ike. We should be fine, but there might be a period of time (1 day to 2 weeks) where we don’t have any power. You can view an interactive map of Hurricae Ike.
www.weeatt.com will be fine though; it’s stored in a datacenter provided by SliceHost (they’re awesome), and they’re states away from us.

However, if the site goes dark, and we don’t have power, we probably won’t know about it for a little bit.

You can  check status.weeatt.com for updates as we have them.

We had to restart We Eatt this afternoon (August 8th), and I decided to implement something I’ve been procrastinating against. Anytime we have any minor blips, such as Slicehost DOS attacks (check), weird rails erorrs (check), and site upgrades (check check).

You can view any status changes on http://status.weeatt.com. We use Tumblr for this service, so if our server(s) die, you can still go there to get the information.

We’ll also post information about upgrades and planned outages there too.

We Eatt on.

How many recipes are private on We Eatt?

We ask ourselves that pretty often, and today I decided to look it up. Turns out, 53% of We Eatt recipes are public, and the rest are split as either private (23%) or friends-only (24%).

We value privacy highly at We Eatt, and that’s why we let you decide how public you want your recipes to be. You can share with the world (public) only your friends (what we call protected) and share with no-one (private).

There’s no loss of functionality either, you can upload images to your private recipes, and even embed videos! We love all the recipes either way.