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"Mashable\u2019s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here.  The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.\nName: Yummly\nQuick Pitch: Yummly is the world's first intelligent, semantic search platform for food and recipes.\nGenius Idea: Yummly aggregates more than 500,000 recipes from cooking sites you already love \u2014 think AllRecipes, Food Network and Epicurious \u2014 and queues up recommended recipes based upon your preferences. After creating an account, you'll want to immediately dive into your profile and set your likes, dislikes, allergies and dietary needs, which can be applied to all future recipe searches. Here you can also define your cooking skills and shopping preferences, import recipes and view a list of recommended recipes that match your tastes. Yummly touts that it is able to learn your taste preferences over time and more accurately predict recipes you will appreciate. \nIf you're on the hunt for just the right recipe, make sure to take advantage of the FoodFinder search tool located on the right-hand side of the search results page. Here you can specify pretty much any constraint on the food you're interested cooking. Everything from ingredients, taste, pricing, cuisines and courses to nutritional restrictions \u2014 such as a vegan diet \u2014 can be tailored via the FoodFinder. With each new specification, the selection of recipes is automatically refreshed.\nOne sweet bonus of Yummly is that it's easy to immediately see each recipe's value, or lack thereof, when perusing results. To the right of each listing is a handy little box that calls out recipe factoids so you can quickly glimpse if something is super salty, pricey, time-intensive to prepare or high in calories. The information makes weeding through the vast collection of recipes an effortless experience.\nYummly can even recalculate recipe proportions and caloric information based on servings and substitutions, the latter of which is a feature the more health-conscious among us will definitely appreciate. Simply select a recipe, specify desired servings, add or substitute ingredients, hit save and watch as the caloric information on the right recalculates according to your customizations. \nSome other fun features include type-down search in text fields, Facebook sharing, the ability to add your own photos to recipes and foodie communities.\nWhatever your culinary abilities or preferences, Yummly is a great place to find and discover recipes best suited to your individual dietary needs.\n\n\n\n\n[img credit: marfis75]\nSponsored by Microsoft BizSpark\nBizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S.$1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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