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Cooking with the Internet?
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?"
I'd try Allrecipes.com. I've gotten some good recipes from there.
You mentioned Google, so why not use it?
Here is the first result, just to get you started : Allrecipes index of 23,000 recipes.
Oh, come on now. Recipes were one of the first things I ever saw posted on the Internet even back when it was Arpanet. In fact, one of the reasons Xerox PARC gave for developing the GUI was to allow everyone to interact with a computer, even "kitchen wives" could be able to easily store and retrieve recipes on a computer without having to use "arcane" symbology.
To answer your question though, I think this link should be more than Slashdot worthy. The show is great, sufficiently geeky, and life is simply too short not to eat.....Good Eats.
There are many, many other links to recipes on the Internet. Food Network is one and Epicurious are the other principle resources I use.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
This cookbook has been a tecchie staple for years!
I only ever get as far as the Nigella Lawson pictures...
*sigh*
Forgot the link somehow...
Foot Network
You just don't see enough recipes along these lines.
I usually to reverse engineer (or hack) my food. And Just like any opensource software sometimes the hacked food is compatible with my stomach and sometimes it is not :(
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
Ingredients:
Vodka (chilled)
Dry Vermouth (chilled)
Olives
Olive Juice
Martini Glass
Mixing
1. Add as much Vodka as you'd like to drink
2. Splash in some vermouth to taste
3. Splash in some olive juice, until you can't taste the vermouth anymore
4. Add an olive or two
5. Drink!
Optional Extras
1. If the ingredients are not already cold, you may pre-mix in a shaker full of ice, and then strain the liquid into your martini glass. Ice may be used directly if you don't mind diluting the vodka.
2. Vodka mixes well with everything. Try additional ingredients to make new and unique martinis.
I'm surprised that I haven't seen the Wikibooks-Cookbook at http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook
The BBC has a very good food section that, in addition to having info on cooking shows and celebrity chefs, allows you to search its extensive collection of recipes - both from shows and submitted by readers. Also, they publish a magazine called Good Food from which (no doubt) many of these recipes are taken.
John
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The Ars Technica batchelor chow cookbook.
That's a standard Urban Legend, though it's more often a cookie recipe. Check out Snopes for the details.
And for those disinclined to click links, a summary:
Ingredients:
Vodka (chilled)
Dry Vermouth (chilled)
Flashlight.
Martini Glass.
Olive.
Toothpick or Skewer.
Step 1: Pour Vodka into Martini Glass.
Step 2: Place Bottle of Vermouth in front of Martini Glass.
Step 3: Shine flashlight through Vermouth towards Martini glass.
Step 4: Put away flashlight and Vermouth bottle.
Step 5: Skewer Olive. Place in glass.
Done! =)
Foot Network
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Mmm, toe-jam.
http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001404.shtml
Dude, where's my packet?
I've used UCBerkeley's Searchable Online Archive of Recipes for years. Its biggest shortcoming is a lack of ingredient searches, but they've integrated Google into the search for full text search, which is good enough, if a bit clumsy.
Here's the skinny from their About Us page:
While RecipeSource may be one of the newest recipe sites on the Internet, we're also one of the oldest. Our collection was started in 1993 by Jennifer Snider when she discovered the wonders of Usenet newsgroups & Internet mailing lists as a student at the University of California at Berkeley. She started saving recipes posted to those sources and soon amassed thousands of recipes. When her friends found out about the collection, we encouraged her to put them on the web, and she agreed, provided we helped her. After several months of hard work, the recipes first appeared on the web in 1995 as SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes. From our start with around 10,000 recipes we've grown the collection to 7 times that size, and had our pages accessed millions of times from around the world. Thanks to our popularity, we've outgrown our original home, so we've moved the collection here to RecipeSource.com, where we hope it will continue to grow, while providing better response time and a better search engine than our old site.
I find Carnegie Mellon's Online Recipe Archive to be a wonderful resource.
I just started working on my own recipe database program. I started with a perl/mysql/cgi interface and now I'm working on a qt program to interface said database.
r ecipezaar.com// /www.foodtv.com/
Granted all my recipes are family recipes and it's nowhere near ready for mass consumption but there are recipes everywhere. allrecipes.com has already been mentioned but there are some other good sites:
http://www.recipesource.com/
http://www.
http://eat.epicurious.com/
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Of course if you are looking for something google can be your best resource.
Hopefully I will eventually have something that I feel is good enough to release. While I am using mysql, since I am using dbi (for the perl end) and qt for the c++ end it should be able to use any database that these support with just a recompile. Let me know if there is really an interest in this and I could try and release something soon. I'd give my web site but it's on my cablemodem which I'm not supposed to run a server off of.
.. is a Google API and here's how it works:
The secret is : Shan Foods spice mixes. I found a Pakistani convenience store in my neighborhood in Montreal, and there were these little boxes piled high, with pictures of food on them. Each one is a mix of the spices needed for the dish in question. You just add the meat, yogurt, onions, etc... I've noticed that a lot of the things I end up making like this have the same odor and taste as what I get in restaurants, for a lot less and it's fresher.
There is also the Gits brand, which offers many type of dessert mixes you can prepare easily. I've always liked the fried milk balls, and with a 2$ pouch I can make enough to last for a week.
Then there's the Haldiram's Soan. Oh my God, I can't even describe it. A mix between Halvah and cotton candy, with an exotic flowery aroma? Anyways, at 5$ for a pound of them, you can't go wrong.
Here's the summary of these links below:
http://www.cookbook.com/
http://www.allrecipes.com/
http://www.foodnetwork.com/
http://eat.epicurious.com/
http://recipedelights.com/index6271m.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/
http://www.recipesource.com/
http://www.meals.com/Index/Index.aspx?Theme=0
http://www.altonbrown.com/
BTW I did this for me so I can look them up easier! Thanks for the links everyone.
Epicurious does have a huge repository, but I have had a handful of the recipes turn out nasty or just blah. Fortunately, they have a recipe review section where people can comment and add helpful comments like, "Don't use the 4 cups of salt in the chocolate cake that the recipes says to."