I heard a story on NPR about an IBM research group developing an AI system to generate new recipes. The system analyzed existing recipes and knew about the biochemistry of human taste. I can't find an online reference.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/creating-recipes... (for me, that was Google's top link for 'ibm ai recipe generation') And it comes with a joke in the comments: Q: So, what would I use my supercomputer for? A: Well . . . , you could keep your recipes on there. [for those too young to know: putting your recipes in a database was _the_ example mentioned when people asked what they could use a home computer…
Thanks! The "ai" keyword was the key. I had tried "ibm recipe generation" and "ibm recipe generator", but the results were just links about WSDL or PRNGs. :)