Flavorpot.com

I decided to make my first review about a small recipe website I stumbled across recently. Flavorpot.com is catered for persons who have a liking for exotic, or more specifically Caribbean cuisine. The first impression I received was that it lacked much originality. While the concept of bringing Caribbean food to the world wide web is in itself not extremely unique the presentation of this concept did not give it much distinction.

On the home page you can find a side bar which categorizes the websites by ingredients. This side bar while it may be useful is not very functional if you happen to have a slow running internet service. It is made up of solely text images and can be misleading if not allowed to load properly. However it is rather appealing, especially during navigation as the images transform by the rollover of the cursor. To the bottom of the home page Flavorpot.com recognizes the Caribbean islands by featuring the native flag for each island. This does add some sort of cultural pride to the website and takes it up a notch with originality.

The recipes found seem to be genuine Caribbean cuisine. The developers of the website seemed to have done a good job in gathering quite a few Caribbean recipes. Sadly I do not use the term "quite a few" loosely. Flavorpot.com does not feature more than "quite a few" recipes therefore if you're looking for an overwhelmingly dense archive for Caribbean recipes this is not the place for you. The website also lacks visual appeal for its recipes due to the fact that absolutely none of them have pictures to illustrate what the food looks like. In fact the only place on the website which actually gives a visual of any recipes is the home page which has a small animation of a select few. Therefore one is left to wonder whether or not the recipe attempted came out the way it should have.

On a brighter note I did find that the recipes were rather unique and just by reading through them one could tell the main ingredients that Caribbean people use in their cooking. So if you need to do some homework on the cooking habits of the Caribbean then this is the place for you.

Flavorpot.com also gives the option for persons to submit their original recipes I guess this is an attempt to build their rapport and improve on their product base ie get more recipes. It's a nice idea but it doesn't seem to be very functional. Also lacking in functionality is their forum. It features very few posts and right now very few members especially when considering that food can be a topic so rich in substance.

All in all Flavorpot.com succeeds at supplying Caribbean recipes but fails terribly at presenting it in an appealing fashion. I give it a 4/10.