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Primo Sguardo (First Look): Cucchiaio d'Argento

If you like to cook and eat Italian cuisine, this iPhone app will make you very happy. Il Cucchiaio d'Argento (The Silver Spoon) has been the definitive recipe book for traditional Italian cooking for the past 50 years, and now it's available for iPhone.

This cookbook, available in the App Store for US$9.99 or €7.99 (click opens iTunes), features over 250 classic and tested recipes. Updates will add more of the 2,000+ recipes in the cookbook. Many of the recipes include notes about their history or tradition, or provide hints on excellent wines to try as an accompaniment to your meal.

Ingredients are listed in both metric and imperial measures. There's space to add your own notes to recipes; this is helpful when making variations to the standard recipes.

In real-life usage, the app works well. My only complaint is that the "add to shopping list" button only adds the ingredients, not the actual quantity of each item. There's no Mac version of the application, but you can always purchase the analog version of Il Cucchiaio d'Argento from most bookstores and Amazon. Check out the gallery below for more screenshots of the app in action.

Many thanks to the readers who corrected Google's lousy translation!




If you like to cook and eat Italian cuisine, this iPhone app will make you very happy. Il Cucchiaio d'Argento (The Silver Spoon) has been...
 

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Joe

Oh well, I should have grabbed it when you first posted about it. This app and the English version of the web page are both gone.

January 22 2009 at 3:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nicola D'Agostino

Well, Il Cucchiaio d'Argento is a must and truly an italian classic but keep in mind that they keep on updating the recipes so if you like the real _old_ classic "cucina italiana" an older version of the printed book would be a better choice. :)

nda

December 18 2008 at 2:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ross

If your mum does like italian cooking tradititon, this is the perfect app.
It's user-friendly and the recipes are all typical italian one, directly taken from italian cooking bible "The Silver Spoon".

December 18 2008 at 10:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
depy

Well, the recipes are really italian style.
They are well described with detailed instructions.
For many recipes there are also some tips or how to present on a table.
The application is ready to update recipes when they will be available.
Stay in touch.

December 16 2008 at 4:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tariq

Anyone had any experience with these recipe apps? I've seen a bunch, but haven't found the perfect one. I'm looking for one for my mom, any help would be appreciated.

December 16 2008 at 3:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Colino

First Look actually translates to Primo Sguardo, you might wanna correct that

December 16 2008 at 2:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Giuseppe

"First Look" in italian means "Primo Sguardo"!
Don't trust in Google translation... :-)
Bye from Rome

December 16 2008 at 2:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marco

I second your question. Unless you work by yourself, it makes little sense that such a complete project management tool doesn’t share info with the rest of the team.

December 16 2008 at 1:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Marco

Whooops, sorry for the above, I’m thanking 1Password for the above.

Anyway, ax got there first… :)

December 16 2008 at 1:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ax

Primo sguardo (First look)

December 16 2008 at 1:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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antiorario

Exactly. Don't trust mechanized translations. It's just not cool.

December 16 2008 at 1:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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