[cproctor]

My take was a little different; I wanted a CLI app that lets me search my recipes, put menus together, and then see views for shopping and cooking: https://github.com/cproctor/cookbook/

One thing I'm looking forward to adding is tagging recipe steps as do-ahead, mis en place, early, late, and last minute. This will make it a bit easier to think through the mental gantt chart I use when cooking a dinner composed of a bunch of dishes. Also a simple scraping utility for importing.

The thing all these have in common is that they're reactions against the festering cesspool of hostile-UI, low-information-density, pages full of affiliate links that are today's cooking sites. (NYT cooking very much excepted.)

I wish we had a better mechanism for including more people in the project of iteratively refining the way we think about life tasks and improving the tools we use to think with. I think this is a great conversation and wish more people who like to cook could participate.

[aaronbrethorst]

(NYT cooking very much excepted.)

This is a consistently excellent resource, and I love the many small, essential bits of polish they've applied to their iOS app, like preventing your iPhone's screen from turning off when you're reading a recipe.

[kfrzcode]

Everything I've seen from the NYT web team(s) has been stellar work.

[KurtMueller]

I'm wondering if NYT has a tech blog. They seem like an excellent resource to model oneself.

[Terretta]

Times Open — Sharing our stories of making digital products at The New York Times.

https://open.nytimes.com

[daveslash]

You may enjoy:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19221446 | Remembering a Programming Language that Helped Shape the Digital New York Times

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20877047 | 25 Years of New York Times Website Design History

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20940209 | New York Times Developer Portal

[shaklee3]

Cook's illustrated/ATK as well, if you have a subscription. The quality is superb.

[inferiorhuman]

Cook's Illustrated is great, their equipment reviews are top notch, and their sweet potato pie recipe is my goto every year. Although like NYT they made unsubscribing obnoxious.

Something I'm surprised I haven't seen mentioned is Serious Eats. J Kenji Lopez-Alt does some absolutely excellent recipes (hello Halal Cart Chicken & Rice).

[ghaff]

The main thing that bugs me about CI is that I subscribe to their website and they still want me to buy an upgrade to access all the content. I get that there are subscription tiers but it just somehow feels a bit obnoxious to me.

Serious Eats is good too.

I used to use Epicurious quite a bit back when they were a pretty early-on serious website for recipes. But with the demise of Gourmet and other sites like the NYT upping their game, I don't consider them top-tier any longer.

[shaklee3]

I think really the most annoying thing is they try to brand themselves as having 3 distinct shows, websites, and books, but they're all the same people and company. Yet they make you buy a subscription for each separately.

[ghaff]

As a business, the whole enterprise are really masters at repackaging and reusing to the point where it becomes more than a bit annoying. Though I like them overall and mostly more so since Kimball departed.

(Though, speaking of reuse, Kimball basically went and made an almost clone of CI that IMO was obnoxiously clode to a direct copy.)

[shaklee3]

J kenji's origins are from America's test kitchen, so you see a lot of the same techniques be applied to his new stuff.

[Sean1708]

I'm amazed nobody's mentioned BBC Good Food yet, literally the only recipe site I use.

[mikojan]

It is really that good.

[aelhage]

I've been toying around with the design of a kitchen management program with a lot of overlap in functionality with your program, so that's very cool to see! One feature I had been really interested in having is a nice interface for a version controlled recipe. I want to be able experiment with a recipe and document results and personal preferences.