Free Healthy Cooking App Teaches Young Adults How Cook...heathier!

TRUFFLEHEAD STARTER (http://bit.ly/TruffleheadStarter) a free mobile cooking app for iPhone and iPad, was released today to help students and young professionals learn how to prepare quick, healthy, affordable, eco-friendly meals. Uniquely designed for inexperienced and intermediate cooks, it has everything they need to learn the basics, improve their skills, and expand their repertoires.

TRUFFLEHEAD STARTER gives users a free taste of TRUFFLEHEAD, one of Apple's New and Noteworthy, Top 25 Lifestyle, and What's Hot apps of 2012. It is unique among "lite" cooking apps in that it offers ALL of the functionalities of the paid version in a package containing 20 of the paid app's 270 recipes.

Cooks of all skill levels will find valuable nuggets of information beneath the surface of all recipes. Users can tap a hyperlink to view an unfamiliar ingredient and learn how to select and store it. Then, they can watch a multimedia demo to see how to prepare it. Because the technique demos are step-specific, users don't have to sit through a full recipe walk-through. They can skip familiar material and access only what they need to know, when they need to know it.

"Trufflehead Starter is the only free app that provides so much support for developing cooks, and it's all organized for maximum convenience. But it's more than just an app. There's an online community at www.trufflehead.com where users can upload photos of their Trufflehead creations and even blog about them. This app is really an 'I'm there for you' cooking experience. With Trufflehead, anyone can make it happen in the kitchen," said Deborah Chud-physician, cookbook author, food blogger, and Trufflehead founder.

TRUFFLEHEAD STARTER features include:

- 20 full-flavored recipes - vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, low-cal and low-fat dishes. 90% can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, and 100% are budget-friendly. All carry nutrition data.
- Recipe-embedded hyperlinks to equipment photo IDs and comprehensive info on ingredients.
- Step-specific multi-media demos accessible directly from recipes.
- "Smart" shopping lists that integrate ingredients from multiple recipes and group identical items together for fast, easy shopping.
- Priority Organics labeling of ingredients that are best purchased in organic form.
- Sustainability tips to help users make eco-conscious shopping choices.
- Capacity to email recipes and shopping lists.
- Interactive usability allows you to upload photos of your Trufflehead creations to trufflehead.com, the online community for celebrating and sharing your experiences with the Trufflehead universe.
For more on TRUFFLEHEAD STARTER and TRUFFLEHEAD, visit www.trufflehead.com, follow them on Twitter @trufflehead, or become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/trufflehead.

About Deborah Chud
Deborah Chud is a graduate of Harvard College and Boston University School of Medicine. For a number of years, she was a member of the faculty at Tufts University School of Medicine. Subsequently, she served as a consultant to ZonePerfect Nutrition Corporation where she contributed as medical editor, food columnist, and cookbook reviewer. Her cookbook, The Gourmet Prescription, was published in 1999. Until recently, she served as food columnist for Radius Magazine, a lifestyle quarterly devoted to health and wellness that circulates to 100,000 physicians and waiting rooms throughout the country. Her Trufflehead app for iPhone and iPad launched in August 2011 and has been featured on Apple's New and Noteworthy, Top 25 Paid Lifestyle, and What's Hot iPhone app lists. She blogs at www.huffingtonpost.com, www.trufflehead.com, and www.aDoctorsKitchen.com . She lives in the Boston area with her husband.