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An updated look at miBook

About a year ago, we shared with you the miBook, an innovative, interactive cookbook. Just in time for the holidays, the miBook has been upgraded, and the price has dropped.

The miBook is like an e-book reader on steroids. Instead of pages of plain text, miBook offers video and audio clips. So when you pull up a recipe, instead of an instruction like "cut up your chicken," you get a video clip with narration: "Slice your chicken tenders into bite-size chunks." You can see the knife being used and the size of the pieces. And the … Read more

miBook puts you in charge of the cooking

So Rachael Ray has inspired you to whip up an exciting new dish for the family. You print a recipe and then wonder what exactly julienne means. So you race to the DVR and watch a few minutes of the segment and spend the next 2 hours running between the family room and the kitchen, dirtying the remote, the floor, the sofa, and nearly every dish in the house in the process. Whatever happened to 30-minute meals?

The miBook (pronounced My Book), a multimedia cookbook and more, offers a better solution. The 7-inch portable player offers Food Network content and … Read more