Beyond The Pasta app review: take it further

Introduction

If you're looking for a way to really jazz up your pasta dishes and add a little excitement in your kitchen this is the way to do it. The Beyond The Pasta app can be used on your iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone and provides you with real Italian cuisine from Rome. This app is an extensions of the popular "Beyond The Pasta" Recipes, Language & Life with an Italian Family" book by Mark Leslie. Now you can carry around the recipes and inspiration all found in this app.

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Cook Authentic Italian Cuisine

Here's your chance to see what it would be like to live and cook with an authentic Italian family in the well-known region of Rome. What's great is that you are getting this in-depth and inspiring experience right in your own home. This app is about cooking from scratch and enjoying these ingredients that are fresh and just bursting with incredible flavor. Most people enjoy a good dish of pasta but instead of opening a car of standard sauce, why not create something that will leave everyone in awe? The app features more than 100 photos and videos that will help you along the way. If you happen to be using this app on your iPad you can use it in landscape or portrait mode.

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This recipe app was released more than three years ago and still doesn't have any updates, but scores quite high and gets four out of five stars from users. Scrolling through the customer comments you'll find that in general people seem quite happy with it. Recipes are easy to follow and understand, there is a good variety, and the user interface has been kept simple.
 

The User Experience

The Beyond The Pasta app is laid out in a really convenient manner breaking the recipes up into the categories of appetizers, pasta/rice, meat/fish, vegetables, and desserts. The videos offer cooking tips, video descriptions of the recipe, helpful information on which herbs you can grow yourself, how and what you should use to stock your own pantry, and more.

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I have to say I really enjoy the photos that accompany the recipes so that you can see what the presentation should look like. The tips for the various recipes are also incredibly helpful. The user interface, however, looks quite dull and I wish there were some updates made to it in order to give it a more professional look.
 

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Learn to cook authentic Italian dishes
• There are videos and photos to help you
• View a variety of cooking and technique-based tips
• The app is very easy to use

Cons

• Users have complained about the lack of recipes offered
• There hasn't been an update in three years
   

Final Thoughts

The Beyond The Pasta app for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad is meant to inspire you and provide you with a variety of recipes. For some the content feels a bit thin and the app also is very dated in its looks.