On top of a massive food empire sits Wolfgang Puck; and he just went mobile.
Wolfgang Puck – Live Love Eat! is a unique app in that it seamlessly merges all the avenues of his culinary map into this great mobile intersection. It’s a recipe guide, event planner, restaurant locator and much, much more. We’ve seen some great apps from celebrity chefs in the past from Jamie Oliver and Mario Batali, to Sara Moulton and Fabio Viviani, but none of them have ever blended their cross-medium properties the way Puck has done here.
Video Recipes & Food Diary – ifood.tv
Developer: Future Today, Inc. Cost: Free Runs on: Android, iPhone Website:www.ifood.tv
Think of iFood.tv as the food version of YouTube. They currently get a self-reported 4 million monthly unique visitors. This month they launched their Android app and updated their iPhone app, which both tout 40,000 recipe videos. If that seems like a lot, you’re right. It is. Ultimately, I found that this app suffered from too much of a good thing.
This app has five main navigation tabs: Home, Search, Favorites, My Diary and More. Home brings you to the main opening screen. The Home screen is compiled of eight whopping pages of tiny thumbnails to “help” make the process of finding recipes easy. These thumbnails organize recipes in various categories and sub-categories, from “Dessert” and “Kids” to “Cheese” and “Halal.” As you can imagine, just sorting through the eight pages of categories can quickly become a chore.
Sara’s Kitchen
Developer: Sara Moulton Enterprises, Inc. Cost: $2.99 Runs on: iPhone Website:http://saramoulton.com
Before there was Rachel Ray or Giada DeLaurentiis (who just launched her first app), there was Sara Moulton. Moulton got her start working behind the scenes on “Julia Child & More Company.” Eventually Moulton was in front of the camera on The Food Network and now she is the star of “Sara’s Weeknight Meals” on public television. The app, Sara’s Kitchen, is a collection of 60 recipes from three books, “Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners,” “Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals,” and “Sara Moulton Cooks at Home.”
I’ve reviewed several celebrity food apps in the past (Jamie Oliver, Mario Batali, and Fabio Viviani) and have been generally impressed. So I had some pretty big expectations for Sara’s Kitchen. Just as her professionalism has been a constant over the years, Moulton’s transition into mobile is as smooth as her moves to celebrity chef and author.
On top of a massive food empire sits Wolfgang Puck; and he just went mobile.
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