Chef Vivant is designed and developed to be unique from top to bottom. With an iTunes-style consumer interface, Chef Vivant provides you intelligent cookbooks and recipes that both facilitate and enhance your cooking experience. All of our cooking content comes from chefs, top publishing sources and industry experts and each has been tested and approved. Chef Vivant provides integrated recipe tools unfound on any other recipe or cooking sites: from recipe scaling, to smart substitutions to wine pairings, Chef Vivant’s dynamic, intelligent recipes provide the at-home chef all of the integrated tools necessary to plan, cook and dine with confidence. Whether you are planning the evening’s meal, a special holiday feast or a complete dinner party, Chef Vivant is the go-to resource for all of your cooking needs.

Becoming a member is free and affords numerous benefits and digital cooking tools you, the savvy at-home chef, can take full advantage of every time you are cooking and/or planning to cook. By becoming a member of Chef Vivant, you will receive 5 premium recipes as a welcome gift. These premium recipes will be automatically added to your “MyLibrary” account. This will provide you with the ability to be immediately exposed the unique cooking experience provided by Chef Vivant.

Chef Vivant is the only premium cooking website that provides truly digital, intelligent recipes that are uniquely formatted with integrated tools, capabilities, features, and functions that provide revolutionary level of utility and value to your cooking experience. Every recipe in our Store and in your MyLibrary is integrated with automatic tools for scaling to different serving sizes, seamlessly converting between international unit systems, wine pairings, shopping lists at your local store, cooking timers, ingredient subsitutions and more.

Yes, you can view a Chef Vivant overview video on the Chef Vivant homepage (www.chefvivant.com) or at YouTube at www.chefvivant.youtube.com.

If you sign up for a free account, all your ingredients will be saved on our server and can be accessed from any online computer. Simply log in with your username and password.

No, the recipe content in your My Library account is stored on our online server, and is accessible from any computer or mobile device that has an internet connection.

Yes, Chef Vivant will soon be introducing multiple Chef Vivant Apps on all major tablet operating systems.

Chef Vivant Apps are available at the iTunes store, Google, Amazon and other stores. Also, the Chef Vivant App comes as pre-loaded Android App at over 1,700 retail outlets in the US.

Yes, Chef Vivant has a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/chefvivant) which offers a free feature premium recipe of the week.

Yes, you can follow Chef Vivant at chefvivant@twitter.com.

Yes, you can access the Chef Vivant blog at www.chefvivant.com/blog. The Chef Vivant blog page features content provided by industry experts which can be used to provide experience-based insights to enhance your at-home cooking experience. Currently there are two blog themes provide by Chef Vivant. The first, ”MyChef” blog, features articles by Chef Todd Walline, a certified executive chef with the American Culinary Federation and an Executive Chef at the Blue Hills Country Club, Kansas City, Mo., one of the oldest and most prestigious country club in the Midwest. The second, a “MySommelier” blog, features articles by Sommelier Tim Smith, CWE, CSW, who has worked in the food and wine industry for over 25 years.

Go to the Chef Vivant homepage and enter your username and password. If this is your first time at Chef Vivant, click on “create your account” and enter your username and password. By doing this, you will create a Chef Vivant personal “MyLibrary” account.

Go the Chef Vivant home page and click on “Forgot Username” and you will be instructed on how to receive your Chef Vivant username.

Go the Chef Vivant home page and click on “Forgot Password” and you will be instructed on how to update your Chef Vivant account password.

Yes, one of the very unique features of the Chef Vivant intelligent, premium recipes is they you can automatically scale individual recipe ingredient requirements according to the number individuals you will be serving. Recipe scaling is available for both cooking and baking recipes. Just go to the top of MyLibrary recipe detail page and put in the number of people you will be serving or items you want make and push calculate. Chef Vivant does is all for you!

Chef Vivant currently supports US (Imperial) measurements.

Go to the “Search” icon located at the top right of the Chef Vivant website and enter your recipe search term, ingredient or other term.

To view your recipes go to the Chef Vivant Home page and click on “My ChefVivant”. Then click on “My Library” in the dropdown. This will take you directly to your recipes in your Chef Vivant My Library account.

Yes, Chef Vivant provides complete weight, measurement, volume and temperature conversion reference tables. Just click “Measures” at the bottom of the MyLibrary recipe detail page and you will be presented this reference information. Also, Chef Vivant supports the ability to convert individual weight, measurement, volume and temperature conversions, just click on “Measures” at the bottom of the page, enter the measurement number and conversion requirement and Chef Vivant will automatically do the conversion and present it to you.

To create a recipe menu click on the “+ Menu” button at the bottom left of the recipe detail page. You can add a “name” for any given menu for future identification (e.g., Mom’s Birthday, Christmas, etc.).

Go to “+ Menu” at the bottom of the recipe detail page and add the recipe to the appropriate menu.

Yes, Chef Vivant’s “Smart Substitutions” feature allows you to substitute individual ingredients for a particular recipe. Guaranteed to be the proper substitutions, Chef Vivant offers up to three (3) ingredient substitutions for individual items within a given recipe. Just go to the bottom of the MyLibrary recipe detail page and click on “Smart Substitutions” and the Chef Vivant “Smart Substitutions” will pop up for your reference and use.

To create a shopping list, go to the Chef Vivant Home page and click on “My ChefVivant”. Then click on “Shopping List Manager” in the dropdown. To create a shopping list click on “Add Shopping List”. Here you can enter the name of your new shopping list.

Yes, go to “Recipes” at the top of the Chef Vivant homepage and click on “Add Recipes”. This will allow you to add recipes to your personal “MyRecipes” cookbook or other Recipe Link Cookbooks.

Yes, go to “Recipes” at the top of the Chef Vivant homepage and click on “Add Recipes”. This will allow you to add recipes to your personal “MyRecipes” cookbook or other Recipe Link Cookbooks.

You can purchase cookbooks and other content partner product offerings.

All purchases are made via PayPal with a credit card or bank account. If you do not have an account, you can sign up for free here: www.PayPal.com

RecipeXpress™ is a patent pending technology that associates a Chef Vivant premium recipe with an “access code” and online-advertising for third-party products and services. RecipeXpress™ allows you to download individual or groups of premium recipes from any premium recipe source directly to your “MyLibrary” account. At the same time, RecipeXpress™ allows companies to promote their products and/or services to you. Chef Vivant uses RecipeXpress™ to promote premium recipes, products, and services from many sources including cookbook publishers, authors, magazine, restaurants, chefs, food companies, etc.

Within Chef Vivant’s website, click on the RecipeXpress™ button in the left naveigation panel, and enter your RecipeXpress™ code. You will be notified of the automatic download of your Chef Vivant premium recipe to your “MyLibrary” account.

Just go to the Chef Vivant Recipe Channel page within the Store and click subscribe, located at the top right of each page. Chef Vivant automatically subscribes you to this Recipe Channel, affording emailed updates to news, promotional offerings and the latest recipes releases from your favorite industry experts.

Yes! With the Chef Vivant “MySommelier” feature on the navigation column (left-blue) of your MyLibrary screen, you can pair wine with a recipe, or pair a recipe with wine. Just click on “Wine to Recipe” or “Recipe to Wine” and Chef Vivant will provide you with a set of information to fill to determine your proper wine-recipe pairing.

There are a few ways to solve this problem: 1. If you are entering a preparation, erase it and enter the sauce and/or main ingredient in the sauce in the “modifiers” fields and you should get a result. 2. If you are entering many of the sub-fields (ie. Preparation, sauce, etc…) clear those fields and see the result at the top of the list for best pairing. Perhaps the recipe has expanded beyond conventional pairing logistics (this means that you are more avant garde than we’ve given you credit for). By deleting some of your entries, you should find a suitable pairing. 3. Also, try changing the course from appetizer to entrée or vice versa.

The top of the list always is the best pairing. You can also limit the results in some cases by adding more of the sub-fields in the lower line of options. Best to add one at a time and click on the Wine Pairing Search button.

Simplify your input, start with the basic main ingredient and see what you get. As you add items in the sub-modifier fields make sure they are key ingredients that affect the dominant flavor of the dish but remember in many cases there will only be one or two likely pairings.

Look in a different field. If you are looking for a cherry red wine sauce you can enter red wine as the sauce and cherry as a modifier for example. Perhaps also there is another name in the culinary world that the item you are looking for goes by.

Please contact Chef Vivant at customerservice.com. One of our representatives will contact you regarding your content inquiry.

Please contact Chef Vivant at customerservice.com. One of our representatives will contact you regarding your content inquiry.

To develop your own Recipe Channel you need to fill out the Chef Vivant Recipe Channel Application form. Once completed, and approved, your Recipe Channel will be automatically provided. Once approved you will be provided Administrative Access to your Recipe Channel site for adding new content to your Recipe Channel page(s).

Please contact Chef Vivant at partnerships@chefvivant.com. One of our representatives will contact you regarding your partnership inquiry.

Please contact Chef Vivant at advertizing@chefvivant.com. One of our representatives will contact you regarding your advertising inquiry.