It enables you to quickly type in any cherished family favourites, or those tempting ones in magazines that you cut out and then lose. Also you can import recipes in Meal Master format. It has a simple Windows interface, and the features include a neat little meal planner, which allows you to select all the recipes for a meal, and then produce a shopping list which can be printed out. This means you can find a recipe with ease, no matter how big the data base gets. All the functions are clear and easy to understand, in plain English, with a good Help facility.
Cuisine has a couple of shortcomings.
Firstly it is American - the most used measurement is a cup, which makes it fairly useless for any other country in the world. Secondly it is boring. One of the real pleasures of a cookbook is the colour pictures of how the dish should look when you have finished, both for the sheer aesthetic pleasure and to guide you when preparing it. However Cuisine is sold as a database, not a cookbook, so for American cooks with lots of drawers stuffed with magazine cut-outs, it is a useful and well designed little programme. After 30 days of free evaluation the programme will nag you incessantly to buy it or delete it, which is after all only fair.