[BNM] Food 2.0 was Geek Garlic Cheesy Chicken

[Raj Anand]

Yup sounds like a plan to me - I can assure you, I'd use it :)

On 7/16/07, Miles Sabin <miles at milessabin.com> wrote:
>
> Thayer Driver wrote,
> > > Which reminds me ... in a "Do you want a social network with
> > > that" vein, does anyone know of a last.fm equivalent for
> > > receipes? I know there are lots of receipe swapping web
> > > sites, but I haven't found anything that's much good when it
> > > comes to unexpected recommendations for new receipes.
> >
> > I *nearly* made a site called Recipe Box that did that once, when I
> > used to code about 6 years back.  Like a Facebook RecipeBook.  The
> > idea being you could submit recipes to your own account, and then
> > share them with trusted friends, or put them up completely to all if
> > you so wanted (ie, it wasn't Grandma's ye olde secret recipe).
> >
> > Also, could do a nutritional feedback for you based on your recipe
> > divided by portions and all that jazz.
> >
> > Never got round to it (pfffft, typical).  I used to used SimplyFood
> > though which was good.  Shame it stopped.  Had a really nice feature
> > of a fridge search.  You typed in what you had available and it
> > returned recipes.
> >
> > Great for when you open the fridge to find an advocado, aubergine and
> > a tin of corned beef ;-)
>
> Yup, that's exactly the thing I want ...
>
> Interesting that it doesn't exist already ... I wonder why. It seems to
> have most of the characteristics which make things like last.fm work
> reasonably well: sharing is basically effortless and costless but also
> valuable, and people cluster around tastes. Advertising based revenue
> model with tie-ins to food retailers online/delivery services? Seems
> like it ought to be a goer ...
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Miles
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