New Cooking Website Provides Recipe Costs of Famous TV Chefs

Feb. 14, 2008 - PRLog -- The Culinary Review is an online food and cooking resource designed for individuals concerned about the calories and cost of the food we all eat. Finished recipe costs and calories of many of America's favorite TV chefs, from Martha Stewart to Rachel Ray to America's Test Kitchen are featured. The heart of The Culinary Review centers around the worlds only freely available database of food costs, density conversions and calories. The ingredient database is fully integrated with recipes and display what the recipes cost as well as how many calories they contain.

Ingredients
With over 500 ingredients available and hundreds of popular recipes, and more being added all the time The Culinary Review has the latest food prices and ingredient information. Visitors can browse or price out any recipe by its ingredients.

Conversions
The ingredient database is equipped with a unique function that enables mass and volume conversions. Each ingredient has a different density (for example 3 tablespoons of flour does not equal the same weight as 3 tablespoons of butter) and this database contains mass and volume information related to all these different ingredients. It is often difficult to find such precise conversion information, but The Culinary Review’s ingredient database makes it possible for anyone to easily convert ingredients between volume and mass. Now it’s easy to see for example how many cups make up ½ pound of flour, or if one dl of sugar equals 300 grams.

Cost and Calorie Conversions
Just as it is possible to convert the mass and volume of different ingredients with The Culinary Review’s ingredient database, it is also easy to convert the cost as well as the calories. For example, a visitor can find out how much 3 pounds of sugar costs in comparison to 3 teaspoons, and also see the changing calorie content, or find out how much 1 tablespoon of butter costs in comparison to olive oil. No matter what ingredient is in focus, the program displays the cost of different amounts of that ingredient as well as the corresponding calorie content.

Integration with Recipes
The ingredient database with all its information is integrated in each recipe. Each ingredient that is utilized is listed as well as the amount (either in volume or mass), how much that amount costs and how many calories it contains. Information such as total cost, cost per serving, total calorie content and calories per serving is also provided: each recipe is completely broken down to give the viewer an overall look over its content. This method makes it possible to look at a recipe and see exactly what brings up the cost as well as the calories. The costs are generalized for the United States and are meant to be used as a guide to understand what popular recipes cost.

The Culinary Review is based on the christonium.com software platform and has the ability to fully integrate with other christonium member accounts. Sharing of recipes, methods or ingredients is fully supported and encouraged within the christonium structure.

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The Culinary Review is an online food and cooking resource focused on the cost and calories of food and recipes. Through The Culinary Review's unique, freely available database of food costs, density conversions and calories, common recipes, as well as those from famous TV chefs, are translated into clear-cut information such as total cost, cost per serving, total calorie content and calories per serving.

Website: theculinaryreview.com