# Cooking up recipe data for the Feast app

DevFeed: [Cooking up recipe data for the Feast app](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cooking-up-recipe-data-for-the-feast-app-19971.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.theguardian.com/info/2024/sep/23/cooking-up-recipe-data-for-the-feast-app>)

Author: Frederick O'Brien

Published: 2024-09-23T09:57:02Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Guardian](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/guardian.md>)

Topics: [Structured-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structured-data.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Data Science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-science.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>), [Content Management System](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cms.md>), [Composer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/composer.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-science.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [machine-learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-learning.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains how The Guardian built more than 4,000 structured recipes for its Feast cooking app. It describes the recipe data model, collaborative editorial and engineering work, machine-learning assistance, curation tooling, a database, and integration with the Composer content management system.

## Source excerpt

Any dish worth its salt needs the finest ingredients. In the case of the new Feast cooking app, we needed a structured recipe archive. This is how we rustled it up You may have heard the Guardian has a new cooking app called Feast. With thousands of searchable recipes, cook mode, and lots of other lovely features, it's been well received on both iOS and Android. You should definitely get it. No article on its own could possibly do justice to the work that's gone into making Feast a reality (a big book might be able to pull it off) but this is a look at a vital piece of the app - its data. There's no recipe app without recipe data. At least, not one with any functionality worth writing home about. Structure old recipes with a machine-learning model trained in-house by the thoroughly brilliant data science team. Drop the resulting data into a temporary recipe curation tool inside which food journalists could use their expertise to refine and approve recipes. Put the curated data in a database. In parallel the same functionality could be added to the Guardian's bespoke content management system, Composer. When it was ready to assume recipe curation responsibilities, we could switch over. Continue reading...