Context

Recipes are an important part of daily life, and a great model for other layers of knowledge.

They also highlight one layer (how to make a dish) in a familiar stack of more and less granular knowledge.

Data sources

Related layers:

• Food (Ontologies — FoodOn)

• Ingredients, nutrition (FDA nutrition)

• Flavors (🍷 , 🧀 , 🍫 , vaping, &c)

• Dishes (each w/ a set of “recipes”)

• Cookbooks, diets (curated style of recipe)

Examples:

• FoodKG (graph of dishes and foods)

• Websites w/ reviews and images (food.com)

• Catalogs and lists

  • Github: Food projects, Recipes

Queries + knowledge flows

What can I make with what I have?
What sets of flavors work well together?
What sets of recipes are similar to this? What are ways to make X?
Generate a coherent menu of recipes for the week.

Scripts + tools:

• Web scrapers from sources w/ reviews

• Recipe extracters from bulk text (Underbelly idea | construction guide)

Nexus + data sharing

Communities: people maintaining recipe apps + tools

Updates + synchronization

Similar efforts

sources, collections, scripts, queries, catalogs

People to invite

• Food recipes: Bruno C

• What a recipe is (problem-solving): [flancian]
  

Needed interfaces

• social media / pubpub / note-taking

• ways to persistently ping lists of people

  • —> linking + permalinks