Thousand Leaves 2.0

I would build one in FileMaker.

A field each for ingredient name, ingredient unit-of-measure, and ingredient-quantity. A field for conversion unit-of-measure (i.e., “please convert metric units typed in to US units”) and a calculated display-ingredient-quantity field that contains the conversion formula. All that in the Ingredients table. A second table would contain Recipe Name, Description, Cuisine, Source, Date, Category, the Instructions of course, and also a multiplier field (i.e., “please scale up the quantities on this recipe that serves 4 to serve 12 people”) which would also be referenced by the formula of the display-ingredient-quantity field back over in the Ingredients table. Bingo, you’ve got a recipes database. Twenty minutes, plus another 20-30 to make it look pretty and look good when you print it. If you want a third table to keep track of what items you have in inventory and when purchased, and a script to generate a shopping list, another 20 minutes.

Add in a script that will let you paste in a recipe copied from email, word processor, or web page, and parse it out into field data, maybe another 30 minutes.

Built-in easy-to-use FileMaker searching & sorting. (i.e., “Bring me all the French recipes for capon that don’t use fennel and don’t use ingredients I don’t have on hand and show them to me in a list view sorted by entry date”).

Neat.

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Kirin, Suntory to merge?

• July 13, 2009
• Daniel Palmer

Food and beverage firms Kirin Holdings and Suntory are reportedly in talks regarding a potential multi-billion dollar merger, which could have ramifications on the beverage landscape in Australia.

Nikkei English News, citing unidentified people, said the Japanese companies were hoping to reach an agreement by year’s end, with talks between the leaders of the two companies progressing since the end of 2008.

Both companies have recently been looking overseas to diversify their portfolios and shield them from a shrinking Japanese marketplace. Kirin purchased Australian dairy business National Foods in 2007 and followed up with the acquisitions of Dairy Farmers last year and brewer Lion Nathan this year*. They also made a play for Coca-Cola Amatil last year.

Suntory has also been boosting their Australian and New Zealand interests, via the $1.2b purchase of Frucor early this year. The company, which became a part of popular culture with the release of renowned 2003 film Lost In Translation, is the distributor of Piper-Heidsieck, Cointreau, Remy Martin, Midori, Frangelico, Jagermeister, Glenfiddich, Jose Cuervo and Campari brands in Australia.

Suntory has since told Reuters that they are currently mulling a number of options including a merger but nothing had been decided yet.

Kirin response

“Today, a news media reported that Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (Kirin) and Suntory Holdings Limited (Suntory) are in talks of business merger. However, the contents of the article are not what Kirin has announced,” the Japanese brewer advised.

“Kirin and Suntory have already collaborated in various operational areas such as distribution and procurement. However, nothing has been resolved or reached an agreement in the area of business merger.”

*Still requires shareholder approval.

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