I tried to answer on the Ubuntu forums website but every time I tried to
save it said I had typed nothing in. Possibly a short time glitch?

Anyway- I'm running dual boot of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty and Ubuntu Mint 7
Gloria. I'm using the Gnome desktop with GDM (Gnome Desktop Manager).
I downloaded Gourmet directly from the installed repositories (that is -
not third party). I do remember the first time it took a while to
start. I can see it doing so as it needs to build its dot directory
(.gourmet) in the home folder. It works well under both OSs.

Once started I click on FILE > IMPORT WEBPAGE and then paste the URL of
the page (usually recipezarr such as
"www.recipezaar.com/Ginger-Honey-Glazed-Barbecued-Pork-Chops-182997")
and it giver me a whole window of info and red tags. I usually clear
all tags immediately,then hide as much junk as possible (navigation,
ads, footers) and start adding tags starting at the top of the list.
Once I get all the tags I save it and then reopen it for edit, as it is
now in the recipe card format, and then I can do the final tweaks - such
as grouping ingredients - such as for a sauce or topping.

I'm not big time into recipes but I'm a recipezaar member (free) and
look up stuff for the two of us - two diabetics with allergies to:
alcohol, fermented items such as pickles and olives, shell food,
cherries, etc. And I love the way they let you do multiple filters to
both filter in and filter out.

Gourmet 0.14.54 on an older Dell desktop with Pentium 4 processor chip
and 384 MEGA bytes ram (128+256).