The New York Times may evoke serious news, but it has a ton of material outside of the headlines. Its food section is pretty well renowned for having interesting recipes for the home gourmet, and the NYT Cooking app offers a database of these recipes. You can search for recipes, or you can browse through collections populated with curated recipes.

NYT Cooking does lack some features, however: It doesn't provide any nutritional facts with any of the recipes-not even calorie counts. So if you're tracking what you eat, you'll have to enter ingredients manually to figure out calorie counts. If you set up a New York Times account-free or paid-you can save recipes for later. You can also share out the recipes to some other apps. The problem is that this app doesn't feel like sharing was central to the design-some of the new iOS 8 share extensions just do not work. I tried saving a recipe to Evernote, and it created a blank note instead. We'll have to wait and see if The Times offers an update to correct this issue.

What's Good: Excellent collection of recipes with a variety of cuisines.

What Sucks: Sharing doesn't work with all apps, no nutritional info.

Buy it?: If you're looking for a good collection of recipes with variety, check out New York Times Cooking. Pick it up on the App Store for free.