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The most POWERFUL RECIPE MANAGER and NUTRITIONAL REFERENCE TOOL available for OS X.

A Universal application.

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• Add and edit recipes
• Import recipe
• Nutritional analysis
• Export recipes
• Set a font preference for printing
• Recipe Illustration
• Powerful Find
• Scale recipes
• Email recipes
• Delete Recipes
• Planners
• Integrated Pantry
• Create Shopping Lists
• Print recipes
• Reference items
• Powerful Editing Tools
• Coming soon
• System Requirements
• Download

Add and edit recipes: A Cook's Books is a power-user's dream.

• Practically mouse-free recipe entry. A Cook's Books creates dummy ingredients when adding or editing recipes. This simple feature allows continuous ingredient entry without the need of requesting a 'new' ingredient.
• Ingredient autofill based on the USDA nutritional database.
• Measurement autofill with fully-customizable units of measure.
• 'Clone' an existing recipe to speed up entering recipes with common elements.
• Use sub-recipes. These are recipes that A Cook's Books treats like ingredients. A quick example could be White Sauce or Roux. Enter the recipe once, tell A Cook's Books it's a recipe.

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Import recipe: A Cook's Books imports recipes from most major recipe programs and some not so major:

• MasterCook Mac and MasterCook PC — single or multiple recipe files.
• Meal Master Mac and Meal Master PC — single or multiple recipe files.
• FileMaker Pro (FMP) based recipe managers such as Cookware Deluxe, Computer Cuisine, and Mis en Place. In fact, you can import any FMP-based recipe, even home-grown ones.
• Cook'n — The PC world's hottest new recipe program.
• Yum! — single or multiple recipe files (Mac).
• The Recipe Manager
• I've also had several customers successfully import recipes from Excel.
• Alas, I can't get Mangia to import. The good news is that someone has figured it out. Here's a link: <http://www.cobblers.net/blog/dev/mangia.html>

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Nutritional analysis: A Cook's Books calculates nutritional values based on the USDA (SR18) Nutrition Database and newly-available trans-fatty acid data.

• View the complete nutritional breakdown of any recipe.
• Print a partial nutritional breakdown with your recipe.
• Lookup nutrition for any food listed in the USDA database.
• Add foods to the nutrition database.

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Export recipes: Export recipes in MasterCook format for your friends on the 'Dark Side.'

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Set a font preference for printing: Especially helpful to myopic folks like me — I can make the font really BIG.

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Recipe Illustration: Visualize what the dish is supposed to look like.

• Supports any resolution, and any one of a number of formats, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, etc.

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Powerful Find: Find recipes by multiple criteria.

• Use any of these criteria: ingredients, course, title, publication, author, region, or cooking method.
• Combine search criteria, for example: find Region - Italy and Ingredients - Chicken and White wine.
• Save search criteria for reuse as a QuickList item.

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Scale recipes: Save money by scaling recipes to fit your family needs.

• Scale by quantity.
• Scale by servings — requires an existing serving amount.
• Scale recipes from the menu planner.
• Print scaled recipes.

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Email recipes: Send your favorite new recipes to your friends, neighbors, and countrymen.

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Delete Recipes: Recipe isn't great? Delete it. Got a bunch you don't like? Select as many as you want and delete them all. Don't worry, the program asks if you REALLY want to do that.

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Planners: Plan for the day, week, or month with the most powerful meal planner on the market.

• Select unlimited recipes per day.
• Scale recipes right in the planner.
• Print recipes right in the planner.
• Save daily, weekly, or full-month meal plans for reuse.
• Create a shopping list.

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Integrated Pantry: Use the power of a pantry to simplify shopping list creation.

• Define how you cook, create a personalized pantry.
• Have A Cook's Books remove pantry items from the shopping list. Or not. You decide.
• Keep track of stale dates.

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Create Shopping Lists:

• Print lists sorted by category or alphabetically, you decide.
• Customize Shopping List Categories.
• Includes ingredients for sub-recipes.
• Save Shopping List as a text file for transfer to a PDA or iPod.

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Print recipes: This is the number one reason I wrote the program.

• No more smudging expensive cookbooks. And, if you're cooking multiple things at once, print them all out and tape them up on the cupboards.

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Reference items:

• Roasting temperature and time charts
• Measurement cross-reference
• USDA SR18 Nutrition Database

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Powerful Editing Tools:

• Power Tools for editing attributes of multiple recipes, working with the food database, Pantry, and shopping list.

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Coming soon:

• Common (and not so common) substitutions, herb use reference, and cooking tips.
• Internet access to more popular sites to search for specialty foods and equipment.
• Export recipes to other programs that don't use A Cook's Books.
• Add more preferences.
• ...and any suggestion (within reason) that makes sense and is technically feasible.

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System requirements:

• Minimum requirements: Macintosh OS X 10.3 or later.

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HAPPY COOKING!