Sunday, November 17, 2013

IBM is Using Big Data to Invent Creative Recipes



A team of IBM researchers has built a program that uses math, chemistry, and vast quantities of data to create new and unusual recipes.

“I have dishes from the system all the time”, says Lav Varshney, who led IBM’s team to develop this novel recipe generation engine. “Some of the recipes that we created ourselves like the Kenyan Brussels sprout gratin, the Caymanian plantain dessert, and the Swiss-Thai asparagus quiche are very good. Others that we did jointly with our partners, the Institute of Culinary Education, like the Spanish almond crescent and the Ecuadorian strawberry dessert are world-class.”
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