Potluck is a periodic schema-generation and sharing workshop themed around recipes and food data.
First session: Friday, 12/4 1200 ET In this session, we want to explore a range of schemas to address food questions big and small.
Ingredients (or, what to bring)
a link to a recipe | any recipe datasets you find curious, in the positive or negative sense: we can try and match them to schemas.
a sketch of an imagined question. | recipe-question to answer and/or a schema that you use in working with food data. ‘Recipe’ here is interpreted broadly to include food- and food-culture related questions, schemas can be general or specific.
Potluck contributions
Loaves
Meatloaf
ratio of (vegetables, meat), topping, [loaf form factor]
Property: description of final phenotype (form factor)?
"in a ____ (6” loaf pan)” —> process defines a tool that defines this
Tuesday, a) a ragout of lungs spiced with blond spices. Recipe - Start at 1/2 past 11 - boil a little water with some salt, add whole lungs, 12 o’clock remove the lungs and slice finely on the board, 5 past 12 return the lungs to the pot. Ingredients added immediately: a chopped onion, some garlic, a strip of lemon peel, some horseradish, two carrots, butter and pepper. Ingredients at 1/4 to 1: Flour dissolved in cold water, some vinegar, a lot of chopped parsley, a little nutmeg. Serve at 1 o’clock. b) macaroni c) salad — Paul Klee
We can also use category theory to understand substitutions as operads:
related:
Summary of schema-types
questions you can ask about cooking, pertaining to different entities/concepts
ingredients -> is it off? substitutions?
taste/texture -> subjective qualities of a dish
process -> how do I, what steps do I take to make
equipment -> how to use, do I need a this for
custom/timing -> meta-processes surrounding a dish, how should it be served, times of day, related festivals
dish -> similarity with other dishes, regional variations
recipe -> what ingredients do i need, what processes to perform, ingredient ratios, recovery
combinations:
can I apply [process] to [ingredient]
can i substitute [ingredient] in [recipe]
is [ingredient] [process]
subtleties
relationship between process, ingredients, recipe and dish: a recipe is an amalgam of processes and ingredients. The concept of dish feels more expansive than recipe, coming with associations that exist outside of instruction e.g. custom, timing. Maybe a dish is a recipe in context? Though a lot of good recipes are also contextualised. Unlike a recipe, a dish does not come with instructions, just vibes.
Thinking about dishes as points on a continuum of flavour + culture and recipes as lines of practice that end in dishes (+ stop off at dishes along the way).
The interaction with diet + different ingredients is also not a simple boolean — for example, kosher diets restrict not just particular ingredients, but also modes of preparation, combinations of ingredients (e.g. no meat and dairy at the same time), and times when certain foods are eaten or not.
Different schemas for different ideas of what a recipe is:
A recipe is a framework for combining ingredients and processes, with outcomes shaped by food chemistry
process, property, ingredient
A recipe is a set of instructions that you need to use to prepare a dish. By varying processes and ingredients you get a different dish.
dish,
A recipe is a creative work
source
A recipe is a cultural artifact shaped by tradition
context, source, diet
some of these are transformations that can be mapped onto each other, some of these are different schemas altogether.
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