Cookthink Is Like Pandora for Recipes

The ever-popular music streaming Website Pandora has built its success largely on the Music Genome Project, using hundreds of attributes to describe songs and a complex mathematical algorithm to organize them.

Now the recipe for the perfect meal is complete with Cookthink, a culinary resource that’s main ingredient is the Recipe Mapping Project. Much like Pandora, Cookthink has created a database that breaks down the components of each recipe, analyzing dozens of characteristics about what goes into a dish – what it tastes like, smells like, feels like, and how it makes you feel to eat it.The result is a clean and simple Website that allows you to search for recipes by either ingredient, dish, cuisine and mood. After entering a query, a tag cloud appears so you can drill down deeper. For example, let’s say I get a hankering for a noodle dish. I search noodles, and then add the tags that I want included in the meal. If I add chicken and lemon, I’m presented with a recipe for Chicken Noodle Soup With Mushrooms and Fennel. If that dish is not to my liking (I don’t like fennel!), there’s an option to display more choices.

Returned recipes can be printed, e-mailed, commented on, or saved to “my meal builder.” The latter feature requires free registration. Also, dishes that compliment the one you have chosen are suggested as well.

A newsletter and a blog round out the cooking resource, but it’s the Recipe Mapping Project that makes this Website a delicious option.

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