Ever wondered what’s in an apple pie? Or, what ingredients go into a typical borscht?

Wonder no more! Introducing the amazing Ingred-o-Matic! from Foodista Labs. Give it a dish, and — it slices! it dices! — it purées away the fluff to identify the most common ingredients that go into making that very dish^†.

^† Well, not really. What we really do is query our extensive collection of structured recipe data, bin the results, and generate histograms of the ingredients.

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Here at Foodista we’ve got a million ideas. More ideas, in fact, than we know what to do with. And as a result, some great ideas don’t quite make it live on the site. To help bring some of these ideas to the light, today we are introducing Foodista Labs.

Foodista Labs is a clearing house for our engineers to release some of the fun, interesting, and even surprising projects they’ve been working on in their, ahem, spare time. Yes, Foodista has foodies aplenty, but we’ve also got some strong engineering talent as well.

Our first release is fudista, an experiment in recipe presentation. Because we store our recipes as highly structured data, we are able to algorithmically transform them in interesting ways. Here, we abridge the recipes into short snippets, suitable for tweeting, à la Maureen Evans of twitter.com/cookbook fame.

For example, how about some Lemon Glazed Carrots:

8med Carrots, 1C Water, 3T Butter, 2T Brown sugar, 1T Lemon juice, Salt to taste, 2t Grated lemon zest, 1/4t Dried dillweed

So, head over to fudista to satisfy all your recipe abridging needs, and stay tuned to this space for more fun stuff out of the Foodista Labs!

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