Free vegan recipe bundle for new MacGourmet 2.0
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Vegalicious is not offering free MacGourmet recipe downloads any longer.
Today Advenio released the new 2.0 version of their recipe management software MacGourmet, which is only available for Mac OS X. For existing users the upgrade comes for free and otherwise the cost is $24.95.
Think of MacGourmet as “iTunes for recipes.” MacGourmet helps you create and edit recipes, wine notes and cooking notes, easily browse your entire collection and build your own custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts.
In addition to recipes, MacGourmet lets you save notes and labels for wines you’ve had, creating a digital “wine scrapbook.” Had a great wine that would go well with a certain recipe? MacGourmet lets you make a relationship between them. In fact, make one or many relationships between every kind of recipe box item.
We have been using MacGourmet for our recipe collection for a couple of years now and as you might have noticed, offer MacGourmet files for every recipe, which you can easily import by drag&drop or the import function.
In order to get you started with your own digital vegan recipe collection, we are offering all of the recipes which we have published until now as one large bundled download for MacGourmet. Just download the file below and import it into your own MacGourmet recipe collection.
Important Note (2007-01-25):
Some users have reported import problems on the MacGourmet site. Please install the new 2.0.1 release and try it again if you had any problems. I also updated the recipe files. They have now been saved as MacGourmet Binary and include all 54 recipes. If you have any more problems, please let us know (we have a contact form on the about page!).
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Very nice!
Importing into 2.0.1 of MacGourmet went well, the only problem I found is that it duplicated several times the course “Sweet” and now I have about 5 instances of it in the popup (I’ll dig in the resource files and will correct it myself, but might be not an easy fix for others).
Thanks for the work with this!
—marlyse
I have noticed the same issue and reported it back to MacGourmet. I am sorry for the inconvenience.
Does anyone know which file to open and correct to fix this issue? I did a search in the Content Package but could not identify which file is responsible for the course listing. Any hint would be appreciated.
Keep up the good work at Vegalicious!
I used the library browser in the Tools menu to take care of it. Using it, I changed the recipes so that they were all using the same “Sweet” or “Soup” course, then I deleted the other Sweet or Soup courses.
Rob, I started working on a small utility to fix the problem and clean up the library. The MacGourmet library itself is a SQLite3 database and can be used with any SQL client which can work with SQLite3 (you can find it in the library package). I’ve been disappointed, that there has been no bugfix update since January and also think MacGourmet misses important management functions for courses, categories etc. (more than just add and delete). My spare time is very limited, so I don’t know when I will have something ready.
It’s too bad that MacGourmet is not proactive. I have not bought it yet — I’m shopping around different programs. Good to know this before I commit.
Nancy, don’t get me wrong. I think on the Mac OS X software market it is one of the best products for recipe management, otherwise I wouldn’t be supporting it here. I’ve tried out various pay- and freeware before choosing MacGourmet. The price of the software is fair and existing users even got the new 2.0 version for free. The software is regularly being updated but personally I feel, that the 2.0 version was not quiet ready yet for production.
Thanks for the tip Rob, I had not even realized before I could change (add/delete) courses there so easily
I do agree with Harald, I love MacGourmet but there are definitely a few things I would like to see addressed… for example to post to a WordPress blg (he DID promise it, but still have not seen anything change in that direction).
MacGourmet 2.1 has been released. The bug with the duplicate courses has been fixed according to the release notes.
to bad you can’t get it for windows pc
>> The bug with the duplicate courses has been fixed according to the release notes.
Still have the bug…
I don’t have a mac myself unfortunately, but a friend of mine does, and she’s also a vegetarian, so perhaps if I give this to her, she’ll cook some nice recipes for me
Nor do I have a mac, but if I did I’d be on this as fast as I could. As I love trying out new recipes and cooking. I too have a freidn I think I’ll put onto this, maybe that way I will be-able to check it all out.
I have been collecting recipes since the old days of Mealmaster on a DOS PC, and I have to say that most of the features in MacG come under the heading of ‘overkill, but nice to have’.
Posting striaght to a blog would be the killer feature for me though – still not there in the latest version?
MacGourmet offers publishing to blogs, just not WordPress. Following blog APIs are being supported: blogger, blojsom, MovableType, TypePad
Thanks Harald – I’ll go check that out then.
The MacGourmet is something that needs to be checked out for sure. It really sounds promissing and at a first glance it really seemed to be very funcional for managing recipes. I cook alot and I would really like to give ita shot. It would be great to have something like the MacGourmet to manage my recipes.
I would really like to keep track of my recipes digitally. I will give it a try.
I’ve read a lot about Macgourmet myself however have still not taken the plung. Is there not any open source software out there that is just as good and runs on a Mac. I much prefer working with opensource software because I think simple bugs like the ones mentioned above are fixed much more quickly. Unless no one has a better suggestion, I guess its time to step out of the stone age with my recipe management . . aka pen and paper, and get macgourmet.
Hi Al,
I tried various free and shareware recipe tools before choosing MacGourmet. MacGourmet costs less than a dinner in a restaurant. It is being developed actively and there are regularly free updates. I use and support a lot of Open Source software but one can not generally claim, hat bugs are fixed much more quickly or that the quality is higher. That only happens in well managed Open Source projects with many active developers.
Sweet! Thanks for the vegan recipes!