When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. Laiko Bahrs I recently started looking into cookbooks. Mostly because I started to eat less (yep, diet, it’s fun), so I wanted to improve the quality of food I’m eating. And it turns out, most of the classic cookbooks are pretty stupid. A lot of them give the ingredients for 4 persons. Only a few of them have information about the amount of kcal, or carbs, fat, protein, etc. These values are then usually given per portion. So in order to cook, you have to start by dividing the ingredients by four, which frequently doesn’t work (1/2 egg?) and it stops any fun with cooking before it begins. So I was wondering — given the availability of tables with kcal, fat, protein, etc. for food and the features of apps like Excel or Numbers, why not improve upon them? And given that Keynote can deal with Numbers tables — why not create a semi-intelligent cookbook? The first attempts are very promising: The tables allow me to select ingredients (just add an “x” or anything except “” into the table), override the default ingredients, add new ingredients (just copy-paste default [...]
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