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This is the second post in a series that explores the technology that RecipeRadar uses to process and store recipe ingredients In part one, we introduced a simplified version of the data model and XML format that RecipeRadar uses to represent ingredient information. In this post, we’ll explain how we handle singular and plural ingredient names for English-language ingredient text. Let’s begin by presenting two of RecipeRadar’s ingredient search use cases. …

This is the first post in a series that explores the technology that RecipeRadar uses to process and store recipe ingredients As a recipe search engine, RecipeRadar aims to collect and understand recipe content from around the web. We’re able to crawl recipes from any website supported by the recipe-scrapers Python library, and the results of each crawl include – among other details – a list of the recipe’s ingredients and a list of the preparation step involved. …