# Thinking About Recipe Formats More Than Anyone Should • Robb Knight

<https://rknight.me/blog/thinking-about-recipe-formats-more-than-anyone-should/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Given how absolutely critical cooking food is to our, well, survival it is a little odd that we don't have more semantic structures around cooking, recipes, and sharing that information with other people. We have robust schemas and concepts for many parts of life. Recipes generally are the world of ad networks and surveillance on websites, and not enough of well defined semantic structures to aid in the communication and understanding of recipes. 

Knight's dive into this and sharing is a good read. [Cooklang](https://cooklang.org) is interesting and I like how it is plaintext and fairly readable. It reminds me of Markdown to some extent. This feels like something that people could use and a text editor with some syntactical sugar could make useful.

The [Recipe Schema](https://schema.org/Recipe) seems like something no person should ever be exposed to. But if you needed to understand the data structure for recipes this would be a good one to use something that is ready to go.

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## Mentions

- [CookLang: recipe markup language](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1308c1beff78/) (cooklang.org, October 28, 2021)

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