New Software Takes Recipes Into the Digital Age

By Dave Mundy

Anyone who's into cooking knows the problem: over the years, you compile a massive library of cookbooks, piles of index cards with recipes and slips of paper with the instructions on how to make special dishes scrawled on them that always seem to make their way into the back of a kitchen drawer or wind up propping up something on your desk.

Organizing all that information is prohibitive by hand, and even with a word processing program, can take weeks.

Now, however, there's a way to store all that information in one easy-to-use computer program that can access and print the recipes you want in a flash.

The program is called My Cookbook Software, created by Eve Wilner of New York. My Cookbook Software enables anyone - from a seasoned chef to a clueless bachelor - to quickly access any recipe stored in the program's pre-prepared cookbooks or to add your own favorite or family heirloom dishes.

You can organize recipes by title, book, chapter, tags or a host of other categories. The program is pre-formatted to print recipes on 4x6 index cards in Word, or in any size paper the user wishes, and you can even generate your grocery shopping lists.

Best of all, it's fully customizable. You can insert your favorite cooking videos, create multiple cookbooks, use digital photos you've downloaded or created yourself, even add ingredients to the program's database.

Managing Recipes is Easy
The user interface makes adding new recipes incredibly easy. Drop-down menus help you select everything from ingredients to measurements to cooking time, and you can add your own definitions to those menus.

The search feature enables you to access recipes in seconds by hunting for anything from ingredients to names. The print option enables you to make customized printouts of recipes for sharing with friends and families, and you can also save files that you can e-mail or saved to a disc for easy sharing as well!

Not only is My Cookbook Software great for taking care of your own recipes - it's an incredibly useful and inexpensive gift for kids off at college, newlyweds, relatives overseas, or just your circle of friends.

My Cookbook Software is soon to be released nationally, and part of the marketing for the product will be co-branding with charitable organizations - so if you're casting about for a fund-raiser for your organization, contact Eve and perhaps your group can market a customized version of the program to help raise funds!

See more about My Cookbook Software at http://www.mycookbooksoftware.com

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