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CookThink: Discover recipes based on cravings
As a keyword/tag based recipe finder, CookThink is excellent. But it's a bit disingenuous to say that you can really find recipes that meet your cravings. Because honestly, when was the last time you found any recipe online that didn't require running out and picking up a few extra ingredients? And if you've got a craving for miso soup, but no miso paste in the house, there's a pretty good chance your craving will have passed by the time you get back from the grocery store.
But CookThink is still a great site. When you enter your first word, a tag cloud pops up suggesting related terms. Or you can just click the ingredient, dish, cuisine, and mood buttons for a list of suggested tags. Each recipe has an attractive photo and list of other dishes that would compliment the meal.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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minibar said 1:48PM on 1-24-2008
Epicurious used to have an interface nearly identical to this. You can still get the same features (and much more) in "advanced search", although it's become a bit overkill. Still, a decade of recipes (and user community) is awfully compelling.
http://www.epicurious.com/
I'll use this and I'm sure it will be useful, but beta label for posterity aside, I don't see the standout feature, as web apps are so anxious to define themselves.
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Timon said 7:52PM on 1-24-2008
Holy macaroni.
Wow they have that too!
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