Monthly Archives: May 2011

Cookulus

Two cookies made from the same recipe app/Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

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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Seafood Fraud

A study shows that there many restaurants and stores who mislabel fish.  Learn what fish are most commonly swapped, such as wild salmon, grouper, and red snapper, via Huffington Post.    

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BBQ Sides

Looking for a new bbq side to add to your repertoire? Maybe a pickle, a slaw, some beans, or a salad check out the recipes, via Saveur.

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What makes a great cooking app?

We've just released the Bread Baking App for iPhone/Pod/Touch

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 ...

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