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Editorial Review:
With over 23,600 recipes and access to over 100,000 more, this 4 CD set is your complete guide, reference source, and organizational system for recipes. There are a variety of main courses, appetizers, desserts, light cooking dishes, foreign cuisine, seafood, beverage recipes, and over 1000 preparation ideas. Use the 60 demonstration videos on culinary techniques to improve your cooking skills. You'll have everything needed for successful cooking and planning.With more than 23,600 recipes and access to more than 100,000 more, Instant Home Cooking is your complete guide, reference source, and organizational system for recipes. This four-CD-ROM suite includes the Food Lover's Encyclopedia, Home Cookin' Recipe Software, RecipeCenter Software, and BarBack. With an all-inclusive variety of main courses, appetizers, desserts, light-cooking dishes, foreign cuisine, seafood meals, beverage recipes, and more than 1,000 preparation ideas, you can always enjoy a great meal at home. The package includes recipe storage systems to organize your collection, meaning you'll never lose a recipe again. Meal planning guides, shopping lists, automatic recipe scaling, and nutritional analysis features make you an educated, managed, and successful cook. Use the 60 demonstration videos on culinary techniques to master chopping, braising, grilling, poaching, steaming, and more. The vast source of beverage recipes helps you pick the perfect drink to complement your meal.
Customer Reviews: Avg. Customer Rating: 1.0 / 5.0  Check it out before you buy: 
ChicagoJess is right - the 4 CDs are not integrated. The Recipe Center Software, 1 of the 4 CDs, is available as a free trial download from RecipeCenter.com. Check it out before you buy it. I wish I had known that was an option. If you do buy it, save yourself some grief and download the upgrade to the newest version before you start using it.The Recipe Center recipe storage, search, sizing, recipe card printing, and download features seem OK. User interface is OK. The ingredients can be added to a... more info
Misleading!!!!: 
I bought this product because I wanted a storage system for my recipes. I bought this at "Best Buy." After installing this program into my computer, I learned that it is NOT a storage system but a glorified cookbook w/ a shopping list. It can however be a storage system for YOUR RECIPES if you are willing (according to the writer of this CD) to kick in an additional $[]. The author is very apologitic about the "Mislabeling" and even refers you to the publisher to place a complaint, however is not willing to... more info 4 CD's are not integrated: 
I bought this set at a local store and since it was inexpensive I thought what the heck. Well you get what you pay for and while this has 4 CDs they aren't worth much. I assumed, wrongly I might add, that the 4 CDs with the different programs were somehow integrated. That's slap one because they aren't and while each individual title sounds nice they don't have enough meat in any one to be of much value. I got the cooking software MasterCook as part of the setup when I bought a computer 5 years ago. I had... more info
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