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I've often thought recipes could benefit from a more structured representation. One idea I had was to recursively define a recipe as either:

A) a raw ingredient

B) a procedure (measurement [4 cups, 2 stalks, 3 pinches], reduction [slicing, dicing, julienne], combination [folding, mixing, blending], heating [sautee, fry, bake, roast]) on one or more recipes

It would be interesting to compare the resulting recipe "trees" across region, cuisine, chef, etc.

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Another interesting variation is recipes presented as Gantt charts, or especially a sequence of courses presented as such so you know what to prepare in advance, what to do just before serving, etc.

Not Agile enough :p

I quite like the chart representation used in cookingforengineers.com, showing the parallelism in a recipe, eg

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/87/Carrot-Pulp-Cak...

Came here to post this as well. Essentially, he's using the Nassi–Shneiderman diagrams for food recipes (instead of software recipes).

Awesome, I'm working on some ways of slicing through recipe data right now (cocktail recipes, really), and I'll consider this tree structure as I go about things.

There have been attempts, RecipeML comes to mind.

Edit for grammar.

I would prefer a service that signs up with major grocery stores to have every receipt emailed to my "recipe as a service" API where it is associated with my personal loyalty card ID, such that whenever I buy anything from, say, Safeway, I get a list of recipes that can be made from the known inventory in my home.

Make the delivery of "what was bought" to the RaaS completely automatic and transparent.

And the 'reverse' - Plan a week of meals from recipes, and the grocery list is generated. Better, have the list items collected, packed, and ready for pickup at the store.

I think this is what the upvote button is for ;-)

My wife and I have been working on our own startup: https://www.land-of-nosh.com/.

You can plan a week of meals and generate the grocery list (among other things). I (and especially my wife) look forward to the day I can integrate with grocery order and/or delivery services to have groceries ready for pickup or delivered.

This used to exist in Gojee, with ingredient tagging. AFAIK they abandoned that feature to focus more on recipes and discoverability.

There is an old format called Mealmaster

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