Originally published December 8 2005
Google can search for recipes based on ingredients
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
By plugging your ingredients and the word "recipes" into Google, recipes that incorporate the ingredients will come up in the usual Google fashion. Google provides more results than other cooking sites, ad well as some extremely strange ones.
The concept behind Google cooking is basic: Simply plug in your ingredients and the word "recipes," press Google search, then wait for the results to pop up.
The engine will scour reams of Web sites -- from the expected (Food Network's http://foodtv.com/) to the obscure (http://acupuncture.com/) -- for recipes that incorporate your desired foodstuffs.
"Every night I would rummage around my kitchen for something to eat and then go in the back room to look through cookbooks," said Hourihan, the former Massachusetts software engineer who is considered the pioneer of Google cooking.
Her latest venture was for mahi mahi, sun-dried tomatoes and brown rice; Google led her to a recipe posted by blogster Cyndi Norman.
"It's good when you don't have a clear idea of what to make with an odd combination of ingredients," said Hourihan, 60, who Google cooks at least once a week.
I have never put in a combination that I did not find a recipe for."
And therein lies the appeal of Google cooking: It helps you build a meal from bottom up (vs. recipe down), while also purging your kitchen of languishing edibles, aging produce and meats, or overstocked perishables (i.e., that crate of pineapples bought impulsively during a Hawaiian vacation).
"It's good for helping those lacking creativity or for spur-of-the-moment cooking," said Charlie Ayers, former Google company chef.
Of those, 3 million users clicked onto http://allrecipes.com/, which lists more than 30,000 recipes and offers an ingredients-to-recipes search function.
It sounded like a dish made for a Roman emperor with glass teeth.
"Google brings up viable recipes that coincide with the ingredients in your refrigerator," said Ayers.
It used the noodles but also required a whole chicken, Asian beef meatballs and two pounds of chicken and pork neck bones -- none of which I had in my fridge.
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