Some i-tech tips to improve your cooking time

Thursday on the LondonDaily Telegraph, our Italian tourism minister asked Apple to remove an Iphone application that suggests Italy is the home of "pizza, mafia, pasta and scooters". She said “I cannot allow our country to be discredited by a criminal organization".
Thinking about this Iphone app and the increasing number of them on the app store I started to look at the most famous food related ones. What a discovery: there are plenty and very useful ones for all of you who likes to learn more about Italian cuisine and products.

Let's begin by two amazing one discovered on Mashable: TopChef Recipe Finder and CookBook. The first one will help you to find recipes with your grocery shopping, season fruits and vegetables. The second instead will let you input ingredients and will suggest you some recipes that you can make using them.

Now there are special italian ones... So if you want to become a real Italian chef and know what we really eat in Italy those are perfect.
You can’t miss the app. Eataly - The Recipes: Eataly, the biggest market for quality food in the world has selected 1,000 best recipes inns throughout Italy reported by Slow Food. Moreover, thanks to the "Wheel of the Seasons" you will have the possibility to know fruits and vegetables by month & season.

And Gambero Rosso created an Iphone guide to Italian restaurants and 2010 wines... It will helps to prepare your "dolce vita" holidays and weekend or  to choose the best Barolo or Chianti of this year, to impress your hosts.

There are also Ipad applications, for those of you who have one.

In fact if you want to cook and you have an Ipad, this can be a really great support. Try one of the best app for Italian recipes, the Artusi HD app: 222 recipes coming from the traditional and real Italian tradition. You can search for recipes and when you find the one you like, quickly add it to your “Favorites” for quick access afterwards. Moreover, if there’s something worth sharing, that can be done just as easily via email.

That's not it... if you have a weekend planned in Milan, you can’t miss to have a meal in "Il Marchesino", restaurant of the Teatro la Scala. Here the same Guglielmo Marchesi, very famous Italian chef with historical fame, suggested to use the Ipad to make the menu more clear. Since September this is reality and the menu’ look stunning!

What about the Blackberry owners? Don’t worry there are some nice app. also for you! With iFood Assistant LITE powered by Kraft, you get fun, convenience and delicious inspiration, all for free. With Healthy Recipes instead, you can browse and search almost 200,000 recipes, plus save your favorites. It also provide calories, carbs, and more for each recipe. Perfect for anyone on a diet!

Do you use any application to cook or have inspiration ? Tell us your experiences about it. How do you use it ?

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