  
Automatic scaling, shopping lists and menu
planners!
All the ingredients for planning and preparing perfect recipes and
meals are mixed into one complete program. More than 2,500 great-tasting recipes
offer a wide variety of choices. Plus, every recipe comes with step-by-step
instructions, color pictures, and detailed nutritional facts, as well as tips
from top chefs.
To make planning a snap, The Complete Interactive Cookbook includes
automatic scaling, shopping lists, menu planners, and customization and printing
capabilities. It's one program that's easy enough for every day yet
sophisticated enough for entertaining.
Advanced search capabilities find the perfect recipe in seconds. Search by
name, ingredient, category, nutritional value, preparation time, or any
combination of these criteria.
Customization is easy and allows you to add your own recipes, substitute
ingredients, scale servings, develop a menu, and prepare and print a shopping
list.
Printing capability lets you use the recipe in the kitchen or share with
friends and family. Print on full pages or 3" x 5" or 4" x
6" cards.
The Complete Interactive Cookbook is a home resource that combines a
comprehensive multimedia cookbook with special features to help you plan and
prepare perfect recipes and meals. You can use the unique features to prepare a
wide range of appetizing meals:
Choose from more than 2,500 proven recipes for a wide variety of dishes. Lighter
meals, vegetarian cooking, and dishes for special occasions are also included.
View more than 8,000 full-color photographs that illustrate the finished product
and preparation steps.
Consult more than 2,000 Chef's Tips for useful information about ingredients,
cooking terms, and cooking techniques. Fifty of the tips are presented in
full-motion video.
Choose from 50 suggested menus designed for a wide variety of occasions. You can
also create your own menus and save them for future reference. If you need help
choosing recipes for your menu, Menu Wizard guides you through the process of
menu planning.
Search for recipes by name, ingredient, category, preparation time, nutritional
content, or any combination of these.
Simply click on a button to scale or adjust a recipe to serve any number of
people.
Add an unlimited number of personal recipes or modify existing ones to suit your
food preferences or health needs. All recipes you change or create are
automatically stored in your own cookbook.
Consult the comprehensive nutritional information accompanying each recipe.
Print recipes on full-size paper or on index cards (3" x 5" or 4"
x 6") for use in the kitchen or to share with friends and family.
Consult a printable shopping list that includes all the ingredients required to
prepare chosen recipes. The shopping list combines ingredients from groups of
recipes and can easily be modified to delete ingredients on hand or add extra
ingredients.
Use standard text-editing procedures - such as cut, copy, and paste - to make
text changes in your recipes and in the shopping lists.
FIND IT FAST
No matter what kind of recipe or menu you're looking for--crab and avocado
salad, maybe?--advanced search capabilities give you a number of ways to find
it. You can search recipes alphabetically by typing in a word. Or you can use
the Find menu to search by ingredient, category, nutritional needs, preparation
time, or any combination of these.
PREPARE IT EASILY
With everything planned so perfectly, preparation is a snap. Plus, The
Complete Interactive Cookbook has features to make it even easier.
Each recipe includes a full-color photo of the finished dish. And most
recipes include photos of preparation techniques. There are more than 8,000
photos in all!
In addition, you'll get more than 2,000 cooking, preparing, and storing tips
from professional chefs, as well as specific tips related to every recipe.
PLAN IT OUT
Once you've selected your recipe, The Complete Interactive Cookbook gives
you everything you need to plan it, shop for it, and even create meals around
it. Plan a complete meal from appetizers to dessert with the Menu Wizard. Or
choose from 50 preplanned menus developed by a top professional chef.
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me or XP
- CD-ROM drive
- Mouse (optional)
- Printer (optional)
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