

If you’re on a laptop, you might want to stick with the standard version, which is a little more compact. I preferred the widescreen version, and it’s especially well suited to large monitors. The widescreen version looks almost like the default Entourage or NetNewsWire layout, with three main sections aligned side by side. The standard layout is reminiscent of Apple iTunes or Mail with its left-hand sidebar, top list, and bottom content area. The user guide, for example, is over 60 pages long just for the core program, which gives you some idea of its depth.įor MacGourmet’s recipe box–its main recipe database–you have your choice of layouts: standard or widescreen. Because there’s so much variety, and you can approach tasks in various ways, it can take some time to get grounded in a workflow and square the program’s capabilities with your goals. Video screencasts on the MacGourmet Web site. I received a note from the developer of MacGourmet and have added some additional notes.The program is fairly intuitive, but it’s helpful to check out some of the
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Adding is slightly annoying unless you are on one ofthe dozens of sites that Paprika knows how to parse recipes from. Importinghad a small hiccup, but their support helped work it out just fine a couple ofyears ago when I switched. Because I have adevice handy most of the time, printing is completely unnecessary.
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Reading is damned fine on portable devices. It’s pretty good for browsing, and the searchis really good.

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You can download the most recently avialable version from MacUpdate. This program no longer appears to be available.I could not find an acceptable download version. Measuring Cup no longer appears to be available.If I were forced tomake a choice, I think that MacGourmet Deluxe would be the winner, but I’m notsure that the expense is worth the time and effort it would take me to switch.I really want to like SousChef, but it’s not quite there yet for me. Tonight, the verdict is to change nothing-I’m not convinced that thealternatives are worth the price today (including the new Yum 3), and thestronger contenders (MacGourmet, SousChef, YummySoup!, Yum 3) have seriousflaws with how I need to use a recipe management program. It’s nice that the meal planner can easily become a shopping list.The nutritional plug-in is a little confusing as to how it works atfirst (you need to edit the recipe to calculate the nutritional value forit based on ingredients), but it does a very nice job of calculating onceit’s clear. The meal planner workssimilarly but is a little finicky as to where things should be dragged (ifI drag the “breakfast” meal into the day area, even if it’s not on the dayrow, the “breakfast” meal should land in the right spot don’t make mecare about your hierarchies when adding-you just need to do the rightthing). The Cookbook Builderplug-in is a fairly nice idea and works reasonably well (drag and droprecipes into the appropriate places), although I don’t think it’ssomething that I would use often, if at all.

Extras: There’s a shopping list, a generic note list, and wine notes.Easily supports publishing to standalone sites or weblogs (the ability touse a weblog publisher like MarsEdit would be nice).
