The Dishwasher Salmon Problem
Recipe blogs prioritize ads over quality, creating bizarre dishes like dishwasher salmon. Cooklang Federation solves this by connecting you to tried …
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Cooklang is the markup language at the center of an open-source ecosystem for cooking and recipe management. In our blog we share how we use Cooklang and tools.
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Meal Planning as Compilation
I used to think meal planning was for people with too much time. Then I realized I was spending more time not planning meals than it would take to …
Read more →Why Plain Text Recipes Beat Databases Every Time
After years of building recipe apps with databases, I discovered that plain text files solve the real problems better. Here's why the future of …
Read more →The Pantry Problem
I realized something was wrong with how we manage food when I opened my third jar of cumin. Not because I love cumin that much, but because I'd …
Read more →David A. Mundie on Cooking and Technology
An interview with David A. Mundie, creator of RxOL - the first programming language for recipes in 1985. He shares his vision of simplifying cooking …
Read more →How Nutrients Change During Cooking
Cooking transforms not only the taste and texture of food but also its nutrients, and with tools like Cooklang, we can optimize recipes for both …
Read more →Developing file sync library
Alexey on a quest of solving recipe sync problem for Cooklang apps.
Read more →Understanding Recipes as Stack Machines
Recipes, like programs, are instructions meant to produce consistent results. Thinking of recipes as stack machines is a mental shift that clarifies …
Read more →Why Recipe Standard is Important
A universal recipe standard would transform cooking by providing a shared structure that enables consistency, accessibility, and innovation, much like …
Read more →Generating a recipe graph with ChatGPT
This text discusses the challenges of translating traditional recipe formats into a structure understandable by computers. It highlights the issues …
Read more →The Recipe Manager Showdown: Cooklang vs. Paprika vs. Mealie
Comparing three popular recipe management solutions - the minimalist text-based Cooklang, the polished commercial Paprika, and the open-source …
Read more →Practical savings on groceries with Cooklang and tools
This is a list of ideas we think will help you to save time and money on groceries with Cooklang and tools.
Read more →My approach to automating grocery shopping
How and why I created Cooklang in the first place.
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