Where recipes come from, and how we handle them.

The catalogue mixes three sources: recipes we write and cook ourselves, recipes imported from public recipe databases and food blogs (always stored with a link to the original source), and recipes submitted by the community.

Community submissions go through moderation before they're published. Imported recipes keep their source attribution — when a recipe came from elsewhere, the original is linked on the recipe page.

We use AI tools to clean up recipe descriptions and step text, to regenerate hero photos when a source image is missing or low quality, and to estimate per-serving nutrition when the source didn't provide it.

Three rules govern that tooling. Ingredients, quantities, timings and servings are never changed by AI — they're treated as ground truth. Originals are kept, so an edited recipe can always be reverted to its source text and photo. Nutrition values that were estimated (rather than supplied by the publisher) are exactly that — estimates, and shouldn't be used for medical decisions.

If a recipe is wrong — a quantity that can't be right, a step that doesn't work, a photo that doesn't match the dish — tell us at hello@recipes.zone. Corrections ship quickly and quietly.

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