Thousands of Ways to Please Your Palate; Sierra serves up MasterCook Deluxe, Cooking Light and MasterCook: Graham Kerr's Swiftly Seasoned at one great value

Business Wire, Nov 5, 1997

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 1997--Sierra On-Line, producers of the best-selling MasterCook series, today announced the release to retailers of The Complete MasterCook Suite -- a three CD-ROM culinary library for Windows and Macintosh users. This mouth-watering collection provides users with more than 3,000 tantalizing recipes at one incredible value.

The Complete MasterCook Suite serves up three of the best-selling titles within the MasterCook collection including MasterCook Deluxe, Cooking Light, and MasterCook: Graham Kerr's Swiftly Seasoned. All of these titles include features that have made the MasterCook collection a best-seller. Users are able to:

-- easily add their own recipes to the database

-- analyze recipes for more than 25 nutritional elements, including

fat, calories and vitamins

-- search the entire database for recipes with specific ingredients or

cooking items

-- learn food preparation techniques demonstrated in entertaining

video clips

-- automatically scale recipes to create the right number of servings

for a given occasion

-- print out recipes or entire customized cookbooks

-- generate shopping lists

-- send recipes directly over the Internet with only a few clicks of

the mouse

-- import recipes from other programs, on-line bulletin boards and

networks like America On-Line and Prodigy

MasterCook Deluxe contains more than 2,000 tasty recipes, including delicious selections from the California Culinary Academy and famous American chefs. Exciting video demonstrations allow users to see first-hand useful cooking ideas and techniques favored by professional chefs. In addition, MasterCook Deluxe contains hundreds of tantalizing photos and a richly illustrated utensil library that helps users prepare extraordinary meals.

Cooking Light, based on the world's No. 1 cooking magazine, makes cooking nutritious and delicious meals easy and fun. Users can choose from more than 1,250 gourmet recipes -- from tantalizing appetizers to satisfying entrees and fanciful desserts --- all low in fat but full of flavor. Cooking Light helps users eat smarter with capabilities to identify the nutritional content of recipes, including the FDA-USDA recommended Daily Values.

Graham Kerr brings his four decades of culinary experience and research together with the power of the world's most popular cooking software in this feature rich CD-ROM cookbook, MasterCook: Graham Kerr's Swiftly Seasoned. MasterCook: Graham Kerr Swiftly Seasoned features more than 140 healthy recipes, including delicious vegetarian dishes. Users can learn rare cooking techniques straight from Graham Kerr's entertaining video clips.

The Complete MasterCook Suite is available on CD-ROM for Windows and Macintosh at an estimated street price of $49.95. The Complete MasterCook Suite is available at local software retailers or by calling Sierra Direct at 800/757-7707. For an editorial evaluation copy of The Complete MasterCook Suite contact Chad Thompson at 425/649-9800 ext. 5959 or chad.thompson@sierra.com .

The Complete MasterCook Suite is a member of SierraHome, Sierra On-Line's division dedicated to providing premium titles in home productivity and family software. Other titles in the best-selling MasterCook series include MasterCook: Sheila Lukins All Around The World and MasterCook: The Jenny Craig Cookbook.

Sierra, located in Bellevue, WA, is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. In July 1996, Sierra was acquired by CUC International Inc. (NYSE: CU), a technology-driven retail and membership services company that provides access to travel, shopping, auto, dining, home improvement, financial and other services to more than 70 million consumers worldwide. Sierra is part of CUC Software, an operating unit that consolidates the sales, manufacturing, finance, accounting and management of CUC International's software divisions.

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CONTACT: Sierra On-Line

Chad Thompson, 425/649-9800 x5959

chad.thompson@sierra.com

or

Karen Hynes, 425/649-9800 x3190

karen.hynes@sierra.com