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Joining a small list of similar concepts is RecipeMatcher. Enter the contents of your kitchen and it will suggest recipes. It can also suggest close matches and generate a list of products you need to buy; it will even generate the required shopping list for you.

I couldn't get the site to work. I tried to sign up several times but never got further than the error message - 'that username is already in use'. From what I can see it looks very Web2.0 and flash based (although Techcrunch has 'some issues') My other main gripe is the obvious American-ness of it - there is no conversion to metric and no mention of English equivalents (half and half for example). Which is fine as it is an American company after all.

There are other services that allow searching by ingredients - Snacksby, AllRecipes, FoodNetwork and Google Recipes. I must ask though - who actually has the time (let alone the inclination) to enter in the contents of each cupboard, the fridge and the freezer? (

[From Techcrunch]

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OK, so at the moment you can count the number of recipes on a couple of hands, but the idea is sound and could turn out to be an interesting recipe finding resource.

Tasty Cooks offers a world view via a google map and plots recipes via their home country. You click on the marker and read the details; click on these and you go to the recipe. So you have Pad Thai fried noodles displayed on Thailand with a link to google base entry or a Spanish Baked Chicken Recipe that links through to Simply Recipes.

I think how it works is, after registering, you can add your own favourite recipes with links to the specific blog or site entry. Yep, that seems to be it (he says clicking madly to see what happens). Instructions are sparse. There is a Add New Bookmark tab that opens up the form to enter the details of each link you add. So I added two - a Baked Mackerel with Rhubarb and an Austrian dessert, both recipes from my own blog.

It all works fine and if you can be bothered to add recipes you find to the map, a handy resource. (Note the map doesnt work in IE7)

[Found via Google Maps Mania]

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