Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List

If there’s any single eye-candy application for the iPad that could sell the device to amateur, part-time, and possibly even professional chefs, it’sEpicurious Recipes & Shopping List (Free), an update to the Epicurious iPhone application. Unlike so many other developers, Conde Nast makes outstanding use of the iPad’s screen, dividing the landscape display into a left bar with useful “featured” collections of recipes in buttons, with search and saved favorites above them, and a shopping list button below, then uses the majority of the screen to display tabbed folder-like lists of recipes that can be sorted by relevance, photos, user ratings, date, or alphabetical order. The photos are commonly gorgeous, recipes presented with perfect clarity as lists with separate directions, and an e-mail export option formats everything to send to friends or different devices. Epicurious is bound to become a fixture on every iPad that will spend time in a kitchen, and guarantees a role for Apple’s tablets outside the living room, bedroom, and office

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