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All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes
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Epicure consists of three sibling skip-gram ingredient embeddings retrained on a multilingual recipe corpus. The dataset includes 4.14 million recipes sourced from 11 different platforms and covers seven languages.
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- Praise: The idea of compressing human ingredients into a simplified format could revolutionize how we understand flavor combinations, making it easier for chefs to innovate.
- Praise: The concept of using a limited set of ingredients to explore culinary possibilities is intriguing and could serve as a valuable resource for future cooking applications.
- Concern: The claim of encompassing 'all of human cooking' is misleading, as the dataset heavily favors English and Chinese sources, neglecting significant global cuisines.
- Concern: The lack of representation from major culinary traditions like Italian and Mexican raises concerns about the dataset's comprehensiveness and applicability.