Before I tell you about a particularly intriguing piece of kitchen software called Micro Cookbook 4.0, you should be warned that I’m really not the best guy to consult on questions of nutrition.

The word “cookbook” used to mean a collection of recipes, perhaps hundreds of them, printed on sheets of paper and bound between hard covers, to be stored on a bookshelf when not in use. Today, ...

Watch out, "Iron Chef"! IBM's Watson is showing what a silicon gourmet can do. The computer has already proved it's good at everything from cancer research to playing "Jeopardy!" Now Watson is flexing ...