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What I would love to find is a database of recipes so that I could build my own front end.

I think there's tons of recipe api's out there. Check out RapidAPI: https://rapidapi.com/hub

Thanks, but I'm not looking for an API, I'm looking for a database. Something I can query with simple command line tools.

Check out some Kaggle datasets! There's some with the info you seek