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Gourmet Recipe Manager is a manager, editor, and organizer for
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recipes. It currently has support for MealMaster(tm) and
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MasterCook(tm) import, including 1 and 2 column MealMaster recipes and
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plain text and XML MasterCook(tm). It can also export and import an XML
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format of its own (the DTD is included here for your interest) which I
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developed for an earlier recipe program in emacs-lisp. It also allows
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you to export recipes as MealMaster(tm), HTML, RTF or Plain Text.
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Furthermore, to facilitate copying recipes off the web, you can drag a
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list of ingredients from another application (i.e. your web browser)
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to the ingredient list on the Recipe Card view and they will
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automatically be imported (the program will do the best it can parsing
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amounts, units and ingredients -- you can quickly see and correct any
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problems). This can also be done with a list of ingredients in the
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clipboard or in a text file.
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In addition to allowing you to edit, import, search and categorize
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recipes, Gourmet generates shopping lists sorted by category. It has a
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simple mechanism for allowing you to designate "pantry" items that you
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already have and don't need to buy, which will gourmet will remember
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Gourmet also includes a handy unit converter to quickly allow you to
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convert any measurement (it even knows the densities of a number of
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The default and best supported backend for Gourmet is metakit -- a
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all-in-a-file database that you don't need to know anything
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about. Gourmet can also be used with sqlite or with MySQL. Support for
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these databases is experimental at present.
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This program aspires to meet the GNOME Human Interface
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Guidelines. Please let me know if you see any ways the interface could
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become more GNOME HIG compliant (or just improve in general).
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* Minimum Requirements *
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2. PyGTK>2.3.9 and PyGNOME
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(Note: with pygtk > 2.5, pygnome bindings have been split up.
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To print, you'll need e.g. the python-gnome2-extras package as
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well as the the python-gnome2 package).
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4. Metakit & Python Metakit bindings (on debian, this is the
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libmetakit-python package). Note: Gourmet can be run without
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metakit if you use the SQLite or MySQL backends, but these are experimental
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5. distutils (to install). Provided by python-dev package.
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6. Python Imaging Libraries (PIL)
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* Extra Requirements *
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1. For RTF support, you will need the PyRTF library available
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at http://pyrtf.sourceforge.net
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2. Gnomeprint bindings, for nice python printing. This is packaged
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differently in different places and versions, but will likely be in
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something called "python-gnome" or "pygtk-extras".
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As root, issue a python setup.py install.
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That should be all you need. You can now simply issue
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from the commandline. Alternatively, use the nifty launcher
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installed in /usr/share/applications/
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Gourmet also has commandline options, most of which should not be
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needed by an average user. Issuing gourmet --help will get you help
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No warantee, etc. Please inform me of bugs/problems/feature
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requests and I'll respond as quickly as I can. I can be reached
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at Thomas_Hinkle@alumni.brown.edu
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Gourmet is intended to be intuitive to use. If anything is completely
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non-obvious, I'll consider that a bug: let me know and I'll try to fix
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To use Gourmet, the first thing you'll need are some recipes in your
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database. You can get recipes by importing MealMaster(tm) files or by
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entering recipes manually (click "New Recipe"). Or you could write a
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new importer module for whatever file format you have recipes in
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There is somewhat out-of-date and incomplete documentation available
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in the documentation folder. On a GNOME system, type yelp
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documentation/documentation.xml (from the gourmet source folder) and
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you can read what's done so far. This isn't yet properly installed by
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The Gourmet program has three kinds of windows.
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The first is a index view for looking at your collection. It has a
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search-as-you-type search box that is meant to let you quickly find
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your recipes. You can also create complex searches by using the add
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button next to the search box to combine searches. From this view, you
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can click the "View Recipe" button to see a recipe card view of your
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recipe. Note that currently, the search box excepts regular
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The Card View shows you a recipe at a time, and doubles as an editor,
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allowing you to conveniently edit old recipes and input new ones. The
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recipe card window has multiple tabs -- the first tab is simply a
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display of the recipe; the other tabs allow you to edit details of
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your recipe: title and details, instructions, ratings, notes, an
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image, and, of course, an ingredient list. To edit ingredients in a
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typing-efficient way, use the ingredient editor at the bottom of the
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cardView. This is set up to allow you to quickly type "amount TAB unit
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TAB item TAB alt-A (for Add)"
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Ingredients use a key system, so that when Gourmet generates shopping
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lists, it will know that, for example, "aubergine", "eggplant" and
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"eggplant, halved" are all the same thing. The program will learn keys
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as you go, so that if you tell it once that "flour" should be keyed as
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"flour, all purpose", then every time you type "flour" it will
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automatically set the key to "flour, all purpose". It will also try to
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guess keys as best it can, which is usually helpful but may
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occasionally lead to incorrect results.
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You can also drag and drop a list of ingredients from another program
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onto the ingredient list and they will be imported -- the program does
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the best it can to parse out units and amounts, but you will probably
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have to correct some mistakes by hand.
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In addition to having keys for ingredients, Gourmet keeps track of
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shopping categories so that your shopping lists are sorted. If you're
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going to use Gourmet for shopping lists and you like your shopping
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lists sorted, then you should enter categories when it's
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convenient. Any time you tell Gourmet what category something is in,
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it will remember for the future.
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The Shopping List View contains your shopping list. You can add
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recipes to the shopping list from the index (where you can select
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multiple recipes at a time to add) or from recipe cards. This view has
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both a shopping list and a "pantry list" (ingredients called for in
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your recipe that you don't need to buy). You can move ingredients
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between the lists by dragging and dropping between the two lists, by
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right clicking and selecting "move to pantry." You can also change the
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categories for items in your lists by right-clicking and selecting a
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new category or by using drag-and-drop.
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Finally, you can add arbitrary items to the shopping list by clicking
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on the "Add" button at the bottom of the screen.
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From the shopping list, you can export a simple text file or you can
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print. Printing will use the nice gnomeprint interface if available,
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offering a print preview and relatively attractive layout. If not
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available, printing will allow you to pipe the recipe in plain text to
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lpr or another print command of your choosing.
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If you find this program useful, or have any comments or questions,
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please e-mail to let me know at Thomas_Hinkle@alumni.brown.edu
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