Epicurious Joins the "Apps" World

More foodie websites are capitalizing on the high interest in new "apps" for smartphones. The latest site is Epicurious, which is one of my favorite websites.

Epicurious just contacted its list of registered visitors to alert them to its app for the iPad and iPhone, which allows users to "sync your personal recipe box to your mobile device!"

It's interesting timing because NPR's "Morning Edition" aired the final part of a series today that essentially said that cookbooks (the actual physical beasts that take up bookshelf space) are likely to survive the digital area. The view is that people will look online for specific recipes for special occasions, but that they enjoy browsing through cookbooks when they have no particular culinary agenda.

Martha Cops Some Attitude

Looks like Martha Stewart's picking a fight with another femme de la cuisine. According to the Epi-Log blog at Epicurious:

In a "Nightline" interview to air tonight [Nov. 19], Martha Stewart talks less than flatteringly of Rachael Ray's skills in the kitchen, pretty much dismissing her as a "bubbly" "entertainer" who isn't worthy of the title of TV chef.

. . . "She's a totally different kind of cook than I am. I don't know if she has a garden; I don't think so."

Um, Martha, in case you didn't know it, there are these things called "farmers markets." In most metro areas, you can go to one and buy a wide variety of fresh produce there. So don't get too uppity about having a garden.