I hope this is the right forum to post this in - I'm new here and a bit unsure.
While I've been waiting to get cookbooks for my thermomix, I found an iPhone app that has 1800 thermomix recipes in it on iTunes. The only catch - its in Italian
So I emailed the developer and asked if there were any plans for an English version and this was his reply (which he gave me permission to repost):
Hi, Jane, thank you for your suggestion. We already considered an english version, the problem is, we need to find an already translated recipe database as it is not viable for us to translate our 1800 recipes manually!
We even started translating a small subset (about 200 recipes), but we stopped early because it is a non-trivial task and requires a good knowledge of specific terminology: think about the correct names of all species of vegetables, of meat cuts, of fishes, and so on.... Moreover, to get to the angloamerican market, we also need to convert all measurements from metric to imperial units!
The only solution is to find an already compiled recipe database. It should be in a format easy to import and of course it should be freely distributable. We tried to find something like that but without success. If you have some suggestion please let us know, as we would be very happy to create an english version of our app.
Thank you and best regards
Federico
PS One final technical remark: the recipes don't need to be in a database already, they just have to be in a "structured" format, like a PDF or DOC with a regular and fixed pattern, we will take care of the conversion.I explained about the metric thing and that they don't sell them in the US so its mainly Australia, Canada, UK etc but I said that I would post this in the English speaking forums in the hope that someone here might be able to get together with Frederico to make an English version happen.
He has a website for the app if anyone is interested I can PM it and you can find it easily in iTunes like me just by typing Thermomix in the search box. I've downloaded it and am going to try some of the recipes using google translate.
But I thought that if anyone in the Aussie Thermomix world (or indeed anywhere else really) can make it happen, chances are they read this forum...
