First off, I've used this program for many years, since it was offered as a low beta number, and have a lifetime license. The author is very helpful and responsive with email communication. You couldn't ask for more there. It is very stable. I never experience any crashes. It has many features included with it that others require you to purchase separately. Think Nutritional Information, planning menus for weeks out at a time. Creating shopping lists based on your upcoming menus. Features I don't use, but will weigh in on other peoples' decision.

At the time of purchase, it was very promising, and still is, as long as you don't mind the interface. Many people do like it, and claim it sheds the "cutsey" goodness that is Aqua and eyecandy and all that. That's where it loses me now. The main window seems like nothing but a regular program's preference pane turned on its side. Check it out. Go to Mail, open preferences, click on Accounts. There's your A Cooks Book interface minus the toolbar along the top and the list along the left side. And of course it's right side up instead of on the side. I always put up with it because I was a lifetime licensee, and it is a solid program.

Since Leopard, the annoying tabbing issue caused me to look at other options out there. I just finished up trying out many listed here and MacGourmet has stole my heart. I used it for about 5 minutes and I immediately fell in love with it. It is very Mac like, in that it is visually just like using Mail, iTunes, iCal iLife and iWork (all programs which I enjoy using).

Is adding a toolbar eyecandy? I don't know. But it sure would be useful in A Cook's Book to enter a new recipe instead of having to choose it from the menu or keyboard shortcut. When I compose a new message in Mail, I don't use the keyboard shortcut to initiate it.

So, farewell A Cook's Book for now. You have served me well in the past, and I will continue to look in on you time to time. But I have found something I like better right now, and you know what I am looking for should you ever want to bring in other users like me.

I've bought Yum, and all the other recipe applications for OSX. As a professional chef, I find this application to be far superior to the rest! The development of this application cannot be surpassed. The support by the developer is not surpassed either! Get it. Pay for it. Support the developer! It's great!

Ron

We tried all the recipe programs out there and my wife likes this one best.

Suggest author change the screenshot to main program screen though.

On comparison of various features still find Yum! superior

Great program! I like the menu planning feature, although it crashes when I try to make a shopping list.

The instant links from the menu bar to various online recipe sites are a very nice feature.

Two suggestions:
First—Each recipe pane needs a field to enter the oven preheat temp in the uppermost part of the pane, not just entered as text into the instructions.

Secondly—it would be WONDERFUL if the ingredients would create real typographical fractions (i.e., ½—not the big honking 1/2) by entering the decimal amount, (in this case .5).