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Cookulus
Last week I asked what makes a great app? Andrew Schloss, a cook, teacher and author of numerous books, offers his answer below. Andrew has created a truly innovative cooking app, called Cookulus. His plans are to create a series of interactive recipes that can be used by Cookulus but for now, he and his collaborators have started smart and small, applying the Cookulus algorithm to the chocolate chip cookie.
I recommend this app even if you don't actually bake a cookie from it, just for the fascination of watching the recipe adjust itself as you slide your fingers along the bars (I bought it for $2.99, but he and his collaborator, Max Minkoff, reduced the price to a ridiculous ...
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Video: Frog Adventure
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Seafood Fraud
Posted in Article, Business, Food Politics, Food Safety, Seafood Tagged seafood politics, switched seafood, the huffington post Comments closed
What makes a great cooking app?
In the headlong rush to turn everything into an app, we have created amazing apps (shazam is truly amazing) and ridiculous apps (won't name names).
The publishers of cookbooks and chefs are among them. Some publishers (S&S, my last publisher) are not entering the market; smaller more agile ones are (Chronicle, by chance publishing my next book).
But what makes a valuable app? Since teaming up with Will Turnage, VP of technology and invention for the digital media firm R/GA, I’ve been creating apps for the iPad and smartphones and so have been thinking about how to proceed. They take a lot of time and work and so far, return on investment is spotty (except in the games department).
My goal is to create only ...
Posted in baking, Bread, Bread App, Kitchen Technology, Ratios, Recipes, Technique Tagged apple, bread baking basics, droid, iPhone bread app, itouch bread app, ratio, sideways.com, Will Turnage Comments closed














