How to Cook Everything Veg app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 4128 ratings )

Lifestyle Food & Drink
Developer: Culinate, Inc.

9.99 USD

Current version: 1.10.3, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 16 Nov 2011
App size: 63.16 Mb

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian®, the ultimate one-stop vegetarian cookbook—from New York Times columnist and bestselling author Mark Bittman—has more than 2,000 recipes, scores of how-to illustrations, and a nifty set of features designed especially for cooks on the go.

The How to Cook Everything Vegetarian universal app for iPad and iPhone makes delicious meatless and vegan food more accessible than ever. It offers the depth, scope, and portability of the bestselling How to Cook Everything app—and it’s all about vegetarian food.

This app is optimized uniquely for both the iPad and the iPhone, making the most of the size, shape, and capabilities of each. Some features are specific to the iPad only.

In this app you’ll find:

• The contents of Mark Bittman’s award-winning book, including more than 2,000 meatless recipes and recipe variations—from easy stir-fries, pastas, and burgers to do-it-yourself projects like tofu and cheese from scratch.

• No-nonsense cooking guidance: how-to illustrations; equipment, technique, and ingredient information; and meal-planning ideas.

• Easy-to-use and flexible search capabilities, including enhanced filters and the ability to browse recipes and reference information.

• Dedicated layouts for portrait and horizontal views, so the information and recipes are easy to follow—from any angle.

• Inspiring photos of weekly featured recipes (iPad only).

• Well-organized and email-friendly shopping lists that make it easy to buy ingredients—and whatever other groceries you need at home.

• The ability to bookmark particular recipe steps and jump with ease among recipes (iPad only).

• The ability to convert temperatures and quantities to metric.

• Handy built-in timers, placed throughout the recipe steps.

• A How-To section that provides convenient access to hundreds of illustrated tutorials on a broad range of topics (iPad only).

• A notes tab on each recipe that makes it easy to add your own recipe notes (iPad only).

• Select quotes from the book with voice-overs by Mark Bittman (iPad only).

• A constant-on button to prevent the screen from dimming while you cook (iPad only).

• The ability to print recipes and shopping lists and to add recipes to calendars.

• The ability to email up to 10 recipes a month to yourself or to friends.

• Cooking inspiration: Bittman’s Picks, Featured Recipes, Menues, and Favorites, which provide quick access to selected recipes.

• Feed your friends: Integration with Facebook and Twitter allows you to share what you’re cooking with your social network!

All recipe and reference content is embedded in this app, which means that you can use it even if you don’t have a network connection. The How to Cook Everything Vegetarian app is the perfect complement to the book, an invaluable resource and guide.

The How to Cook Everything Vegetarian app is the perfect complement to the book, an invaluable and innovative resource and guide.

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Praise for the How to Cook Everything Vegetarian cookbook:

“Mark Bittmans category lock on definitive, massive food tomes continues with this well-thought-out ode to the garden and beyond. Combining deep research, tasty information, and delicious easy-to-cook recipes is Marks forte and everything I want to cook is in here, from chickpea fries to cheese soufflés."

— Mario Batali, chef, author, and entrepreneur

“Recipes that taste this good aren’t supposed to be so healthy. Mark Bittman makes being a vegetarian fun.”

— Dr. Mehmet Oz, Professor of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Medical Center and coauthor of You: The Owner’s Manual

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Love this app? Check out its companion app: How to Cook Everything.

Pros and cons of How to Cook Everything Veg app for iPhone and iPad

How to Cook Everything Veg app good for

This app brings all recipes from the book and is packed with nice features such as a shopping list generator, timer and the ability to print or export recipes. It is a great complement to the book of the same name.

Clear recipes and the variations are great. Highly recommend!

Very well designed for the iPad and iPhone. Searching for recipes is clever and easy. I love the timer that is usable right inside the recipes. The app is a pleasure to use. The recipes, their variations and the comments from the author invite creativity and freedom.

Wow, exactly what I needed, awesome recipes, easy to use app and very well designed. Its one app that I am sure to use everyday. Worth the time to write a review. MB good job!! Noosh

Really easy to use and follow, and thats coming from someone with zero cooking experience or knowledge. Tons of recipes, loads fast, and is really well organized.

Mark Bittman remains one of the best cook book authors that encourages experimentation and an intelligent approach to cooking. He helps you understand how the recipe works so you can learn to modify and experiment as you cook. The format is excellent, especially with a community aspect by voting on recipes that you have cooked. Fantastic work, and much like his how to cook everything app, it is highly recommended.

Some bad moments

I was very surprised at how few photos there are in this app. It seems the only recipes to have pictures are the weekly highlighted ones. Even his top 100 essential recipes do not have photos. Odd and disappointing.

This app is nothing but a confusing cookbook. Its hard to get around in it, its got symbols that are not explained, and it has very limited menus and featured recipes. I dont get why its getting rated so high. Does anyone know what fmve is? I havent figured it out. Does anyone care about the opening where it shows pictures of the author with statements about cooking? Is this really supposed to be helpful? I dont get why this is getting such high ratings. I thought it would give menus and recipes to go with them. I at least thought it would give the book, as it says it does. It might, but good luck getting around in it. If I have better luck later, Ill update this, if I can. Right now, Im saying I dont like it at all. Just go by an e cookbook. Itd be a lot better.

This app has been completely abandoned. When I open it, I get warnings from Apple because No one can be bothered to update the thing. Ugh.

my favorite part is being able to auto make grocery lists with the ingredients needed for the recipe.

I love this app. Both versions (everything and vegetarian) are great! I especially adore the vegetarian one. All I have to do is follow the recipe, and everything I cook is now amazing! You can go by category, search by ingredient, easy-fast dishes, etc. It doesnt have pictures, but somehow you end up not needing or missing them. The instructions are really clear, good, and easy to follow. I also love that multiple options are often given for an ingredient, so you can easily do with whats in your pantry or available at the store without risking the quality of your outcome. Its only missing one star because the iPhone app doesnt sync with the iPad app, which can be quite annoying. I like to select my recipes for the week and create my weekly shopping list from this selection via the iPad app. But when I go shopping, ideally I would be able to have my shopping list and the ability to use it in the iPhone app (I love the function to tap on an item and move it to "purchased"). But I cant use the apps awesome shopping list on the go, unless I go to the store with my iPad or do my recipe browsing on the iPhone (too small for efficiency). I still can email the list to myself as a plain text list, so its not the biggest of deals. But please add a sync function!

Seriously, this book gave me the tools I needed to eat well without meat. Highly recommended!

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