Obviously the biggest iPhone apps store is at Apple web site. By
going to the Apple web site and clicking on the link for Apps for iPhone
you get some tabs that categorize the types of apps you can get for
your iPhone.
Today's screen shows Apps for Cooks, Apps for Music, Apps
for the Outdoors and Apps for Keeping Current. You can search for apps
to do whatever you want on your iPhone.
Under Apps for Cooks there
are twelve featured Apps and the first one is about cheese. Fromage is
an app that has over three hundred eighty varieties of cheese where you
can search by name, region, texture or milk type to find what you want.
If you would like to know what kind of wine goes with the cheese of your
choice that is available as well. The App for fish comes from the
Monterrey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Program to see if the fish you are
considering is over fished or part of a sustainable population.
If
you like to eat fresh vegetables, grains and fruits there is an app for
you. Locavore finds local farm markets and will tell you what local
people are eating by typing in a zip code or using the GPS function. If
you are cooking and doing other things around your house and you do not
want to miss your timer the Apple store has a timer app that you can set
so that you can get your cookies or cake out of the oven before it
burns.
If you are an adventurous cook and like to try new recipes
you need to get the Epi app that lets you access the Whole Foods Market
Recipes, Big Oven or Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner. With over twenty
five thousand recipes you definitely have a lot of variety to choose
from. If wine is more your thing you can go to Wine PhD to access wine
ratings, pairings and even winemaker notes. There are even articles on
trends, hot winemakers, popular regions and best buys in wines from
around the world.
If your tastes run to the grill and barbecue
sauce is available in gallon jugs at your house you need to get the
Weber's On the Grill. There are over two hundred fifty classic grilling
recipes and forty recipes for rubs.
There are instructional videos and
tips from celebrity chefs along with a function that allows you to
create a grocery list for the recipe of your choice.
For those of
you who like more general functional apps Grocery IQ is excellent. With a
database of over 130,000 items and a predictive search function you can
start typing your list and Grocery IQ fills it out for you. You can
even email the list for your personal shopper (or spouse) to pick up for
you at the store.
While there are a number of app makers out
there trying to get there apps on the Apple site some companies are
trying to compete by creating their own app sites with mixed success. A
good way to make sure that you are not paying for something you can get
for free is to go to an app review site.
