Macsimum Migration Kit: Recipe software, part two
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 9, 2008 at 11:57am
In this week’s Macsimum Migration Kit, we’re offering part one of our recipe software for the Mac. For those new to the column, Macsimum Migration is our term for companies moving from Windows machines to Macs—or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A Macsimum Migration kit is an overview of Mac OS X products for a particular occupation, such as dentistry, accounting, etc. Part one can be found here.
MacGourmet
Earlier this month Mariner Software, developer and publisher of professional and personal software, has announced an agreement made with Advenio Software to republish MacGourmet, recipe and wine management software for Mac OS X. The product will make its public debut under the Mariner brand with a “major update,” MacGourmet Deluxe, in June.
With MacGourmet, users can create and edit recipes, make wine and cooking notes, easily browse an entire recipe collection, as well as build custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts. Users can even publish recipes to .Mac or personal blogs. You can import recipes found on the web and add to individual collections.
MacGourmet Deluxe will be available, for sale and trial, in June on the Mariner Software web site and various retail outlets. The shipping version will initially be offered in English and sell for $49.95 for the CD version and $44.95 for the downloadable version. Existing MacGourmet users will be eligible for a special upgrade path. Support for more languages is expected in the near future.
MacGourmet Deluxe requires Mac OS 10.4 or higher. The standard version of MacGourmet will continue to be available for purchase on the Advenio web site.
MaX Cook
MaX Cook is recipe-managing software for Mac OS X. It allows you to collect, search and organize your recipes.
Mealformation
Mealformation is sofftware for analyzing and managing menus. It takes into account age, weight, sex and activity levels. The software provides a nutritional requirements calculator, a food diary, a food database, an option to create recipes, meal plans and menu plans, a grocery list generator and a personal analysis tool.
Measuring Cup
Measuring Cup is a recipe management app.
memoPod
memoPod is a notes manager for an iPod. You can create and manage notes on recipes, exercise plans, to-do lists, driving directions and more.
mise en place
mise en place is a recipe database to which you can add your own recipes, and even link to cookery web sites.
mooDex
mooDex is a solution for organizing all kind of information. It opens and saves QuickDEX files. mooDex works like a Rolodex and can be used for any kind of data, from addresses to recipes.
My Brew Collection
My Brew Collection is a combination of software and “how to” tutorial. With it you can log and track your entire brew recipe collection. Features include creating custom labels, storing recipes, tasting notes and more. With this program you can print your recipes, tasting notes, labels and brew details.
Le Nutritionniste
The Nutritionnist is a solution for nutritional coverage of patients. It has an engine expert, a database of more than 1,700 receipts and 1,300 foods.
Organized Gourmet
Organized Gourmet is software for managing your recipe collection and scheduling meal.
Party Pro for iPod
Party Pro for iPod lets you look up the following on your iPod: the 800 most used drink recipes plus drinks images; 55 drinking games; a global bar and club database for every US and European city; bartender tips and tricks; and more.
Pocket Bar & Grill
Pocket Bar & Grill for the iPod combines Podtender and PodGourmet into Pocket Bar & Grill. Pocket Bar & Grill has two sections. One is the “Bar” section with 750 mixed drink recipes from A through Z, each drink individually listed. The other section, “Grill,” contains 225 select gourmet recipe with an index in each category with links to the recipes within that category.
Recipe Box
Recipe Box is an electronic recipe book for chefs of all skill levels. It maintains a database of your favorite recipes that can be displayed or printed scaled for any number of servings, as well as the ingredients, units of measure, and preparations methods.
Recipe Cleaner
Recipe Cleaner removes unwanted information from any recipe, and leaves behind a clean, consistently formatted recipe. The software has special provisions for cleaning up MasterCook and Meal-Master recipes for use with CookWare Deluxe recipe organizer.
RecipeBook
RecipeBook is a recipe organizer with an interface designed to be familiar if you have used applications such as the Mac OS X Address Book. You can use it with recipe text files or clippings you already have or find over the Internet.
TheRecipeManager
TheRecipeManager is a “healthy eating assistant.” You can store all your recipes and search through them at any time. Ingredients, photos, instructions and more are accessible from the interface. With TheRecipeManager you can: find recipes with the search feature; create a multi-course meal from several recipes and save it; print a shopping list; and more.
Shop’NCook Cookbook Reader
Shop’NCook Cookbook Reader is free software to read the cookbooks created with Shop’NCook Shopping List & Recipe Manager software. Shop’NCook Cookbook Reader lets you share your cookbooks with friends and family or distribute them over the Internet. With Shop’NCook Reader, you can view and search the recipes and print recipe cards.
Shop’NCook Manu
Shop’NCook Menu is a smart meal planner and grocery organizer. Recipes are added by typing them in, pasting them from the clipboard, or importing from the internet: no formatting is necessary. You can scale your recipes, organize your recipes in cookbooks that you can share with the free Shop’NCook Reader software, and plan meals by dragging recipes to a calendar and organize them in menus. Shop’NCook Menu includes a database of more than 2000 grocery items with cost and nutritional data.
Shop’NCook Pro
Shop’NCook Pro is a smart meal planner and grocery organizer for foodservice operations.
Shop’NCook Shopping List & Recipe Manager
Shop’NCook Shopping List & Recipe Manager is a smart recipe organizer combined with a grocery list manager.
Weightmania Pro
Weightmania Pro is multipurpose fitness and nutrition software. You can use it to track workouts, nutrition, dieting progress, measurements, recipes, cholesterol, blood sugar and more.
Yum!
Yum! is a recipe collection manager that offers: indexing by category (any number of user-defined categories); customizable page layout for printing (fonts, styles, paragraph settings, etc); graphics that can be included; the ability to import from MasterCook export files or from other Yum files; the ability to export to Yum files, to XML files or to plain text files; and the capability to email recipe(s) to friends (uses your default email application).
YummySoup
HungrySeacow Software offers YummySoup, recipe management software for Mac OS X. It costs US$20. A 15-day demo is available at the HungreySeacow Software web site.
For an in-depth round-up of Mac products, go to the Macintosh Products Guide.
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Dennis Sellers
Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Jason Says:
Your forgot the vaporware Cookbook from the My Dream App challenge.
Posted on May 10, 2008