[gurraman]

I started something similar[1] last Christmas (but lost interest as I never documented my own experiments). It's a great idea and there's need for a de facto standard source for recipes and cooking instructions.

My "next step" was to contact sous chefs of famous restaurants.

[1] http://palatelab.com/

Edit: rephrased.

[tazzy531]

Maybe Google's Recipe microdata?

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Which is standardized at schema.org: http://www.schema.org/Recipe