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Product Description:
You organize your digital photos, you make playlists of your mp3s. Now bring your recipe organization into the 21st century with MacGourmet. Think of MacGourmet as "iTunes for Recipes". MacGourmet helps you create and edit recipes, wine notes and cooking notes, easily browse your entire collection, and build your own custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts.
MacGourmet also offers the following features:
- Publishing of your collections to .Mac and WebDAV accounts.
- Many options for printing your recipes, including printing on index cards.
- Easy import of recipes found on the web using clipping, drag and drop and cut and paste.
- A sample recipe pack for first time users of 100 recipes.
- Shopping list export to HandyShopper and SplashShopper on your PDA.
- An extra large Chef's view for preparing your recipes in the kitchen.
- Import of MasterCook, MasterCook Mac and Meal-Master recipes
- Recipe scaling.
- Many ways to search, including the recipe box search field, find, quick find and potluck find.
- Smart lists that keep themselves updated automatically.
- Chef's Reference of commonly used cooking information.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.1 is a free update that includes the following changes and improvements:
- More printing options, including one or many recipes, and printing on index cards
- New templates for .Mac publishing
- New templates for recipe and note display
- Updated shopping lists that include export to PDA functionality
- Many more enhancements. Visit here for a full list of the changes.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
- .Mac account or file server for .Mac publishing
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Download MacGourmet Version 1.1.0 (File Size: 2.2M)
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: |  (4.0) |
Support: | (4.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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Featured Reviews
For those of us who are Diabetics. - Version: 2.4.2, 10/9/2009 09:15PM PST
lhsmarket
I think this is a great program and I use it everyday as I cook all my own meal from scratch as I am a type 2 diabetic.
I would like to see this program also include sites that have recipes for those of us Mac users that are diabetics.
There are many out there and it would be greatly appreciated by both the Mac community and all those of use that are touched by family members that have diabetes that we cook for.
Leon
I would like to see this program also include sites that have recipes for those of us Mac users that are diabetics.
There are many out there and it would be greatly appreciated by both the Mac community and all those of use that are touched by family members that have diabetes that we cook for.
Leon
The best of all, but.... - Version: 2.4.1, 9/27/2009 04:23PM PST
feedingyou
I agree with the other users that the developer is shockingly responsive and helpful. I have tried all the recipe software there is and MG's the best. I wish it did a few things like:
*closing the revision window when I press return. I use the program so often that little things like that add up.
*creating shopping lists with more info next to the ingredient, like keywords or categories that it is associated with.
The one thing is that it has tiny little glitches that keep me from trusting it completely. I'll create a shopping list for a multi-day, multi-meal event and all the math will be perfect except for ONE or TWO items. I can't afford to send my shopping lists away incorrect, so I go over them after they are generated.... I always go back and be sure it's not a data entry issue, too.
For example 3T plus 4T plus 3 cups of vinegar does not equal 563 gallons...
Besides that, amazing program.
*closing the revision window when I press return. I use the program so often that little things like that add up.
*creating shopping lists with more info next to the ingredient, like keywords or categories that it is associated with.
The one thing is that it has tiny little glitches that keep me from trusting it completely. I'll create a shopping list for a multi-day, multi-meal event and all the math will be perfect except for ONE or TWO items. I can't afford to send my shopping lists away incorrect, so I go over them after they are generated.... I always go back and be sure it's not a data entry issue, too.
For example 3T plus 4T plus 3 cups of vinegar does not equal 563 gallons...
Besides that, amazing program.
Some issues are quite frustrating. The shopping list is often incapable of adding ingredients of different units correctly. For example, if one recipe calls for 200 g of flour, and another for an ounce, the shopping list totals these to 201 g. Perhaps a user-defined unit equivalence list would be useful, or at least a list of what MacGourmet's pre-defined conversions are.
The chef view is useless. Many recipe instructions refer to the ingredients for quantities, but the chef view forces you to scroll up to the top. Not good when you have a handful of raw chicken. The chef view really needs a split view to allow simultaneous viewing of ingredients and instructions.
The shopping lists could be formatted more intelligently, with page breaks at logical spots, such as between shops. Alternatively, user-defined page breaks would be helpful. Also, depending on the name of ingredients listed in different recipes, the shopping list can produce separate listings for flour, plain flour, and flour (plain), etc. Some other programs I have used also allow user-defined ingredients. While this is more fiddly, this option prevents this confusion.
UI issues are abundant. For example, the default "OK" button is often highlighted, but pressing "return" on the keyboard does not click it, as expected under OS X. Also, command-~ normally switches windows, but this does not work in MacGourmet. This prevents comparison of recipes.
Finally, I'm not really sure, but I couldn't find a way to create smart recipe lists based on preparation/cooking times. Given that this is an editable field in recipes, it would be useful to search by this! Again, since the developers do not reply to emails, I'm not sure if there is a solution.