Organize recipes and more with MacGourmet

For years now, I've been using a laptop and a homegrown Filemaker Pro database for recipe organization. I've got my own recipes and my wife's, plus all the great family dishes we've both inherited and that have been passed down over the years. I can quickly search for a given recipe or ingredient, print a recipe or shopping list and so on. I've even toyed with the idea of permanently installing an old SE in the kitchen running such a database (my wife said "No way" to this idea). But all of this might be moot now that I've found MacGourmet.

I've been playing with the demo for a little while this afternoon, and it's really nice. The interface is similar to that of iTunes and iPhoto, in that you have a main recipe library that can be grouped in "lists" like playlists (appetizers, brunch, etc.). Smartlists are also available.

Create notes dishes or wines you've tried, create a "relationship" between a certain wine and recipe, publish your recipes to .Mac, print shopping lists, create iTunes-like ratings and a heck of a lot more. Check it out if you're the type who (like me) enjoys time spent in the kitchen.

MacGourmet requires Mac OS X v10.3 or later, and costs $24.95US for a single license.

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Source: http://www.advenio.com/macgourmet/index.html

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Avi Flax

Although I haven't used MacGourmet, I'd recommend Connoisseur to anyone - I'm very happy with it!

October 03 2005 at 2:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wordman

Unlike Dave's wife, mine's not shy about macs in the kitchen. I've blogged details of how I set it up (including using MacGourmet) at http://asteroid.divnull.com/?p=33

August 29 2005 at 10:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chef

I use a program from Digital Fried Chicken. Love it. I wrote up a testimonial for the xtreme Mac program, but I really love Cookware Deluxe

August 27 2005 at 6:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jeff kirshbaum

i have boath,and the boath have good points,back up is a problemwith connoisseur,scaleing is bad with boath,

August 23 2005 at 12:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

marlyse

It is true, some features from Connoisseur are not in MacGourmet (while vice versa is true too, e.g. you can create wine notes in MacGourmet), the one thing I would like to point out is that the "comparisson chart with MacGourmet" on the Conoisseur website is out-dated and wrong in several points (for example MacGourmet does have export to PDA and in many ways it is very iTunes like even though Conoisseur notes that it is not). I do like the browse window of Connoisseur with the 3 upper columns, but overall I find MacGourmet having a nicer looking interface (nicer icons for one) and not having to open an additional window to be able to read the recipe makes browsing much smoother in my opinion.

August 22 2005 at 7:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nosidam

It doesn't seem to have the ability to adjust the recipie based on the number of servings. That's an essential feature if you ask me. Check out Connoisseur mentioned above.

August 22 2005 at 7:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

oxjox

Wow - nice find on both those apps. I purchased Recipe Manager from XtremeMac http://www.xtrememac.com/trm/index.shtml. Feel like I got ripped off now :(

August 22 2005 at 4:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

jim

Did you try Connoisseur from the LittleAppFactory. I found that it has some features that MacGourmet did not.

August 22 2005 at 3:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply