Is anyone doing any recipe work in gemini yet? It’s one of those areas that could really benefit from de-Webbification.

Most recipe sites are a mess of JavaScript and ads and images and rambling about grandparents and bullshit no one cares about. You have to hunt for the very short section that tells you ingredients and what to do with them.

A gemini capsule that has a database linking recipe instructions and ingredients that gives you a pile of results based on a couple ingredient keywords would be really awesome and useful.

Aug 01 · 4 months ago · 👍 Mel, Half_Elf_Monk, devoid, bsj38381, lojikil

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I just throw some crap into the pot and hope for the best.

it's not Gemini (I think he used to have a Gemini frontend as well, but no longer), but I have to recommend this "smolweb" link, because it's awesome:

gopher://tilde.pink:70/1/~bencollver/recipes/

Interesting

I know it's not in Gopher or Gemini and some of you may dislike Luke Smith, but he had the same problem and solved it with a very simple website, where people can contribute recipes:

Maybe it would be a cool idea to create a Gemini site which accesses this site and provides the recipes on Gemini.

Someone at tilde.team has a gemini clone up of based cooking, which has a similar mission:

gemini://tilde.team/~greco/based.cooking/index.gmi

What does BASED mean? It means nothing to me in English ...

I need to properly write up the idea but I think the true small web solution for book reviews / recipes etc is agreeing on a loose format and people hosting their own content. Then people can aggregate these ala antenna

My own contribution thus far

@sbr Come up with some document and index format. I have a lot of 1700s and 1800s cookbooks I’d love to rip out and make usable here.

Ok, putting something together today, btw there is a /s/cooking on this bbs