I'm very excited to be launching a new and improved version of the Cooking with Rockstars web site. It's been a long time in the making.

The most significant improvement is that the videos are bigger and better. When I first started this project back in 2002, there wasn't much going on in the world of Web video. Given technology and bandwidth constraints, about the best you could do was embed postage-stamp videos compressed within an inch of their lives. But no more!

I had to put this project aside for a few years while I tended to some other things (like having a baby and writing 3 books on web design). In that time, web video exploded, and now the options for delivering video online are dizzying. The upshot of it is that now I can provide much larger, nicer videos (
powered by Blip.tv) and you can subscribe to them using iTunes or another RSS reader.

The new site also features more content, such as my Jen's Kitchen page and blog where I have a place to let you know what I'm up to. There is also a new Recipes section that features both my own recipes and those contributed by my guests.

In the near future, I plan on adding a discussion forum so you can chat amongst yourselves about the bands and let us know whether you've tried any of their recipes. I also hope to launch a store to make it easy to pick up music by the guests on the show.

In addition to the facelift, on the backend, the site is now running on Drupal (thanks to my husband, Jeff Robbins of Lullabot), which is very nifty indeed.

Thanks for visiting, and feel free to drop me a line to let me know what you think.