Food- and drink-related apps are becoming better and better.
Here are three that have been singled out in the press recently
that we thought you might be interested in:
The Kitchn recently published, This New Italian
Cooking iPad May Be the Best We've Seen. They introduce it with
"If you're looking for a clever yet easy-to-understand
Italian cooking app, we think we've found it. Sara Jenkins' New
Italian Pantry is built around the idea that once you have 16 basic
Italian ingredients in your pantry, you can create almost any meal
with whatever other ingredients you have on hand." The video on
The Kitchn's site demonstrates it quite effectively
($3.99).
And the Food Republic has Taking Coffee And
Cocktail Apps for a Spin, specifically talking about Coffee
Guru and Speakeasy Cocktails.
Coffee Guru ($1.99) "...allows you to search for coffee
bars by name or proximity, the results of which can be mapped or
listed." It gives you a great deal of information about the
results...The app is an obvious labor of coffee love as
opposed to a mere directory, with plenty of details even the
haughtiest of coffee snobs will appreciate."
And then there is Speakeasy Cocktails, which happens to be
one of our favorite apps. As Food Republic writes, "Unlike
so many cocktail apps that seem to collect their recipes from Tom
Cruise's 1988 handbook, this one relies on two of the country's top
bartenders for its repertoire. Jim Meehan of P.D.T. and
Joseph Schwartz of Little Branch, both speakeasy-style bars in New
York that helped propagate the cocktail renaissance, share not only
their recipes, but the many tricks of their shared trade. "
Personally, we took their Margarita recipe out for a spin recently
and found the idea of a little Agave syrup to be brilliant. And we
will testify to the excellent videos. It is the most expensive of
the three, at $9.99, but is also universal.