CNET Editors' review
MacGourmet Deluxe can help you collect, edit, use, and share your favorite recipes and recipe-related notes in an easy, intuitive, iTunes-style interface, which is much improved over previous versions. This Deluxe version includes all three optional plug-ins for MacGourmet: the Mealplan (to help schedule meals and sync up with iCal), Cookbook (for creating and sharing PDF cookbooks), and built-in nutritional data from the USDA database (which makes it easy to calculate nutritional info for entire recipes). The main recipe interface is highly customizable and includes a large, easy-to-read "Chef View" for laptop-assisted cooking, which you can control with speech recognition or an Apple Remote. MacGourmet's recipe import assistant and integration with Safari makes importing recipes from the Web almost effortless (especially for the app's supported list of over 40 popular recipe sites).
MacGourmet also makes it easy to compile cooking notes and shopping lists (for easy printing or export), along with a shopping list history. Tools for taking notes on wine help you keep track of personal ratings, bottle labels, and "cellar info" (such as date opened and maturation date), and recent updates also help out aspiring food bloggers with support for MacJournal. Overall, MacGourmet is one of the best applications of its kind on the Mac--and though slightly pricey, the Deluxe version offers a good value given the cost of the optional plug-ins.
Publisher's Description
From Mariner Software:
Easily create, build, and share your recipe collection. Make notes about your favorite wines; plan meals for a day or a week and then sync to iCal. Get the nutritional values of foods, recipes and individual servings by accessing the USDA database included in MacGourmet. Print out shopping lists or export them to your PDA. Find recipes online and add them to your collection using MacGourmet's intuitive features. Publish recipes to your blog or .mac account. Even use your family recipes to create a high-res PDF or your own professional-looking, bound cookbook!
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"Could not import recipes"
Version: MacGourmet Deluxe 3.2.1
Pros
Reasonably priced; technical support; free trial
Cons
Even with tech help, could not download my recipes in .mx2 format into the program. It SHOULD have worked --- but it didn't. Too bad. I am trying to get away from PC programs.
Summary
Will uninstall the program....not of any use to me without ability to import.
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"Great for recipes, not so great for making a cookbook."
Version: MacGourmet Deluxe 3.2.1
Pros
Easy to use. Very nice formatting.
Cons
You cannot create chapters like a real cookbook. The name of the new chapter will share a page with your 1st recipe in the chapter. If each new chapter had a divider page that you could use to title your new chapter on it's own page, I would really like this program.
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Easy to use for collecting and storing recipes, but will not work if you ant to print and publish a cookbook with chapters.
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