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Kathy and I have an older iMac we keep in the kitchen for easy access to recipes we’ve collected electronically over the years. MGD includes a weekly meal planner that can be exported to iCal, and shopping lists can be created from planned recipes. This kind of information would be extremely helpful not only for the person watching what he or she eats, but also for the personal chef or any person in charge of providing meals for groups of people. This information is calculated for 45 separate items:Īnd when printing out recipes for personal use or to share an abbreviated box with nutritional information is included such as this breakdown for JT’s Family Pancake Recipe: Once all ingredients are mapped and servings are figured, MGD calculates an extremely accurate breakdown of nutritional data. Ingredients are automatically evaluated by this database and if MGD is unsure about a particular ingredient, the user can open up the USDA database and manually map ingredients. Notice for example in the list below, taken from this recipe, that “25” is separated from “dried Arbol chiles” which is separated from “remove stems and shake out some seeds”:įor those watching what they eat (and who isn’t these days?) MGD comes with the abbreviated USDA National Nutrient Database.
What impressed me further is that in parsing the list of ingredients, MGD could distinguish between number, actual item and special instructions. And of course, I can do the same with the directions, information about the recipe, etc. From the drop down menu, I can select “Ingredients” and MGD knows that this information is separate from the preparation directions. After I had dragged over the text for the salsa, I double-clicked on it to import it in my recipe database.Īll of my captured text is gathered at the top of the import window.
This is a great little window in MGD that allows the user to drag over recipe after recipe and then go back and format them later. To import the recipe from Greg’s website, I first highlighted all the text in his post and then I dragged it to the “Clippings” window in MGD. MGD automatically parses the information, separating the ingredients from the directions, the description of the recipe and even includes the picture:īut what if a website is not supported? Well, to test this out, I went to one of my favorite cast iron related websites, “ Black Iron Dude.” About a month ago, there was a recipe at this website for Arbol Chile Salsa. There are “supported” websites such as, ,, , and in which all a user has to do is select the URL on a recipe’s webpage, go to the services menu: MaGourmet, and choose “Import Recipe from Web Page.” Certainly, the user can enter ingredients and directions manually, but there are also a number of ways to add them automatically from other sources. One of the most impressive features of MGD is the multiple ways that recipes can be added to the database. And like an iTunes smart playlist that automatically expands as new songs meet pre-set criteria, MGD allows the user to create “smart recipe lists” that look for certain criteria as the user adds new recipes. The interface is iTunes-esque, allowing you to create your own categories in the left sidebar. Of course, MGD does what you would expect-it allows you to keep a database of your recipes. I’ve jokingly said to a friend that MGD seems to do everything except cook the meal for you, but maybe that’s projected for version 2.0.
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I strongly encourage you to download the MGD user manual as I will not be able to nearly touch upon all of MGD’s features in this review.
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In fact, as I already mentioned, recipe database software is nothing new, but in reality, MGD seems to me to be the mature end result of nearly three decades of this kind of software that has gone before it.
But what you must realize is that I first contacted Mariner Software in regard to their advertising with us because I was incredibly impressed with this software. Now, let me say up front: yes, you can see a MacGourmet Deluxe (MGD from this point forward) advertisement in the sidebar. But I’ve never been impressed with recipe database software.
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I’ve been using personal computers since 1982, and I’ve kept recipes saved electronically (in word processing documents or PDF files) since the first computer we had with a hard drive, way back in 1988.
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Some of these are standalone programs dedicated to recipes, but even standard database programs such as FileMaker Pro come with recipe templates. Recipe database programs have been around in one form or another as long as personal computers have been in homes.
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