Hungry Sam - Hungry Sam

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Ok, so this quick-quick post is less about food and much more about an AMAZING development in the already pretty awesome world of Google: Google Recipe View.

I already use Google heavily to find new recipes. Often, I'll type the name of a dish and a few of the ingredients I happen to have into the search bar along with the word "recipe," and I'll find some amazing stuff. It often looks like "chicken salad recipe mango curry walnut" or "lentil stew recipe carrot harissa celery ginger."

Now, Google has made this process AWESOMER (I'm almost like a writer, so I almost get to make up words). Go ahead, visit Google and type in the name of some food that you might make, say, "muffin." over on the right hand side, along with "Images," "Videos," "News," etc, will be "Recipe."

When you click on "Recipe," up will come some new options -- and therein lies the awesomeness. Google gives you the chance to narrow results by including or excluding some oft-associated ingredients, cook time, and caloric level (I'm assuming when available). The beauty of this is twofold: a) Google "gets" what I and presumably many others do with their product, and is tailoring the product to fit; and b) this will encourage others to use the Internet for recipe gleaning. Based entirely on a number of conversations with friends and coworkers, I don't think enough people consider the web for what it is: a veritable TROVE of excellent recipes to be enjoyed and cooking experiences to be had.

And, in the kind-of-entertaining category, because Google does the "instant search" thingy now, as I type in new ingredients or words, the list in "ingredients" is updated live and immediately. Life is good.