

I pulled a few select recipes from my library of cookbooks, and I used recipes with both imperial and metric measurements.

Then I turned back to this article, largely done but forgotten in the changes I was making in my life this summer. I merged my cooking hobby with my new diabetes hobby (for, truly, that is what it has become for me) and began learning even more about food and nutrition than I had before.

My cooking hobby is both a curse (I have many favorites I should no longer eat) and a blessing (I have the interest in learning new recipes that are healthy for me). After the shock wore off and I began to take stock of my new reality, my perspective changed. Then, early this summer, I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. I wrote most of this article with that background and from the perspective of a cooking hobbyist, looking at what tools fit my own personal needs. I learned through experimentation (what happens if I put apple slices with feta cheese on pizza?). I learned the hard way (I still wince thinking about the time I cooked pesto for a woman I was trying to impress and used dried basil as it was all I had on hand). I am a long-time home cook and collector of cookbooks. We have everything we need right here, right now. And, believe it or not, we need not mourn the loss of Mangia. Thankfully, it is not the end, and there are new programs for managing our recipe collections, some of them truly wonderful. If that were the end of the story, it would be a sad story indeed. But Upstill Software became no more and Mangia was soon discontinued. For a time, we chefs and chef-wannabes were happy and peace reigned in our kitchens. We compared everything to it and all were found wanting. For many Mac-using cooks, Upstill Software’s Mangia was the gold standard for recipe software. #1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while travelingĬook from Your Mac: 10 Recipe Tools Compared.#1625: Apple's "Far Out" event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach.#1626: AirTag replacement battery gotcha, Kindle Kids software flaws, iOS 12.5.6 security fix.#1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.#1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.
