Yum: Recipe Management for your Mac

Ask any cook about his/her collection of recipes and you’re likely to get a self-satisfied smile that says “Ah, zee greatest collection in zee vorld!” Continue on by asking them to find you their best recipe for Mexican Wallaby Steaks and the look they give you will more than likely turn to one of tired incredulity: “How do you expect me to find…?”

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a simple solution to keep track of all your recipes in a single zesty application on your computer? Say hello to Yum, the appropriately-named recipe organization tool for your Mac.

Produced by NIXANZ, the Leopard-ready Yum creates a digital archive of all your myriad recipes, which can then be tagged and stored in categories for easy retrieval. Sporting a Spotlight-esque, live-updating search feature, Yum even lets you import any recipes that you may have archived using the paid, Windows-only, MasterCook. Recipes can be formatted, grouped, printed, exported as text files, and adorned with helpful graphics, giving you full control over every aspect of your culinary chronicles.

Users are able to define ingredients and amounts and can describe the cooking method however they need to - there is no strict form-based information input. Everything is intuitive and open-ended, letting you create and organize your recipes however you prefer.

Because of its tag-based organization scheme, you’ll never have trouble finding similar recipes again. The ability to print recipes individually, all together, or by category is very important if you don’t happen to keep your computer in your kitchen. You could, conceivably, turn your Macbook into a Ma-Cook-Book, but it turns out that advanced computing technology does not take to egg-yolk stains quite as well as its paper predecessors did.

Yum is not only free, but available under the author’s own proprietary “UNDER-Ware” (User Now Defines Entity Restrictions) licensing, which means you can download and distribute it more or less however you wish, as long as you remember the UNDER-Ware motto: “Your UNDER-Ware should be comfortable.” Incidentally, the software also comes with the author’s own personal collection (of recipes, that is) which includes a rather scrumptious Mexican Wallaby Steak method.

All cuisine lovers are encouraged to grab a copy of Yum and get cooking. Bon appetit!

Editors Note: We have also reviewed YummySoup, Connoisseur, and Measuring Cup recently. Check out the reviews!