Guardian has a frequently appearing column called "my secret ingredient" where someone writes about one particular spice that they use and like.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/series/my-secret-ingredient
SpiceNice – An open source spice database
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#22Guardian has a frequently appearing column called "my secret ingredient" where someone writes about one particular spice that they use and like. https://www.theguardian.com/food/series/my-secret-ingredient
Also worth a mention is their “how to cook the perfect…” series. While I don’t always agree with the conclusions drawn (taste being subjective, after all), I can usually divine a reasonable starting place for my own perfect version based on the research.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/series/how-to-cook-the-perf...
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#23Seems like a perfect job for Datasette: SQLite plus web api and UI “Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API.” https://datasette.io/ The “Baked Data” style of deploying the data with the app is powerful.
i second this! datasette is amazing and i've been using it to publish data that i collect and find interesting
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#24This is a just a small list with very few information, smaller than what Wikipedia lists[1], and even include error in capitalization (SIchuan pepper). This is a bit underwhelming for a "visionary entrepreneur". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_herbs_and_spi...
I agree. "The source of this data is the English edition of Wikipedia." I have to wonder how they ingested the data; manually? For slightly more vision, a culinary window on Wikidata would be nice, whether Wikidata is very exposed in a flexible but complex UI like https://scholia.toolforge.org/ or is hidden and simplified.
Thanks for your candid feedback. I copied the data manually into the CMS. I am looking at alternatives to that in the future, there are some projects that try to automate querying Wikipedia data. Have not tried them out, though. Any experience with that?
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#25Don’t get me wrong, I do appreciate the project but this is not an open source database for spices. I was expecting to see a GitHub project with a collection of spices, maybe pictures also a way that I could collaborate with it.
A good example is the free-exercise-db https://github.com/yuhonas/free-exercise-db
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#26Am I the only one who thought “circuit simulation”?
Yeah, I thought 'cool, finding model definitions can be a real chore and spread between dozens of sites...'
nope, actual cooking spices :eyeroll: