I agree. "The source of this data is the English edition of Wikipedia." I have to wonder how they ingested the data; manually? For slightly more vision, a culinary window on Wikidata would be nice, whether Wikidata is very exposed in a flexible but complex UI like https://scholia.toolforge.org/ or is hidden and simplified.

No, that's exactly why I clicked on it too.

Yeah, I thought 'cool, finding model definitions can be a real chore and spread between dozens of sites...'

nope, actual cooking spices :eyeroll:

All right, thanks for your feedback. Correct, currently this is only content from Wikipedia, although in a more structured form. I hope to expand and improve content over time (maybe even with help of a community). One idea is also linking from recipes to the SpiceNice database and getting more information about spices in that way.

i second this! datasette is amazing and i've been using it to publish data that i collect and find interesting

Also worth a mention is their “how to cook the perfect…” series. While I don’t always agree with the conclusions drawn (taste being subjective, after all), I can usually divine a reasonable starting place for my own perfect version based on the research.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/series/how-to-cook-the-perf...

You can but you will likely end up with some invented spices.

Pink pepper can refer to three different species, from the Euonymus and Schinus families. One is from Madagascar and the other one is from South America. As another example, Sichuan pepper can come from 6 different species of the Zanthoxylum family.

There are two very distinct types of cinnamon…

Well that's sort of a good example. The word "coriander" is used all over the world, but in some places refers to the leaf (in other word, what some places call "cilantro") and in other places refers to the ground seed.

Za'atar is the name of a herb and also a spice mix

asking for pepper in a dish might result in different results based on your region....

cumin and persian cumin (caraway) is one such example

Also long pepper/black pepper (piper in Latin)