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Cooking with the Internet?

Posted by Cliff on from the your-browser-as-a-cookbook dept.

VonGuard asks: "Not all of you live on ramen and coffee. At some point, you have to cook, and the Internet should be a great place to find recipes. Is there a Google for recipes. And why isn't there a larger open cookbook on the net? So, is anyone working on this, or is there something the rest of us don't know about yet?"

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  1. Re:One suggestion... by cybermace5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Another suggestion:

    Newsgroups. There are groups dedicated to recipe trading (rec.food.recipes), and on EVERY group the regulars will occasionally post their favorite recipe for something, especially if they just hacked together some good food. Just do a Google Groups search for whatever you want...it's there. Maybe it's not really organized, but who organizes things anymore? The thought these days is to throw everything in a pile with some rudimentary crosslinking, and use a search engine to ferret out whatever you're looking for.

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  2. Cooking with google.. by asdf+101 · · Score: 5, Insightful


    .. is a Google API and here's how it works:

    "Just type in the ingredients you've got in the fridge and click 'Grab a Recipe,' and Google will give you some ideas."
  3. Re:Every time I look for food on the net... by oops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can assure you after seeing her in London several times that she is *not* bulimic!