Cookbook on My Dream App

My Dream App posted an update on one of their projects called Cookbook.

A little digging revealed a future home for this app, and an archive of updates covering some of the progress around its development. One of the posts describes the intent behind Cookbook, and reveals quite a number of interesting features:

Essentially, Cookbook is an application that will streamline many kitchen-related activities. It goes beyond recipe management to assist in meal planning, ingredient acquisition, and food preparation. Recipe scheduling will allow you to plan out meals months in advance. Ingredients required for scheduled meals will be automatically added to Smart Grocery Lists, so you’ll always know what to buy during your weekly supermarket trip. Or if you’re too busy, just buy it all online. Cookbook ties into Amazon.com and will let you buy ingredients from within the application. With one click, your order is submitted and the items in your shopping cart will be at your door in a few days. Then, to cook with the ingredients, Cookbook’s full-screen mode will allow you to follow recipes on your MacBook. Use the Apple Remote to navigate through recipes, or if your hands are dirty, voice recognition will take its place so you’ll never have to touch a key.

I’m really curious to see what it’s like to interact with the voice recognition or to use the remote with the application. I think they’re interesting approaches to solving what is a fundamental problem: do you really want to have your computer present in a busy kitchen? Thoughts of water splashing, flour flying, and meat tenderizers tenderizing all within viewing distance of my laptop’s screen strikes a little fear in my geeky heart.

I do, however, like the integration with Amazon and the ability to do meal planning. Here’s to Cooking 2.0! (You heard it here first!)