This document summarizes several Quora questions and answers about food and recipes. It discusses how networks mapping food combinations could create more personalized recipes tailored to individuals. One answer explains how inputting a person's favorite foods and preferences could generate custom recommendations. It also includes questions about which foods gain or lose nutrients from cooking and when food from one location tastes significantly better than elsewhere.

1. Robyn Ondrejka FA102B Professor Klinkowstein
• Recipe Networks and
Combinatorial Cuisine
• http://www.iftf.org/future-now/article-detail/recipe-networks-and-
combinatorial-cuisine/

2. Quora Question + Answers
Q: With networks currently mapping the kinds of
combinations of ingredients we eat, what types of new
food cultures might be created and redefined?
A: The closest to a revolution this would bring is to
make "personalized recipes/dishes" easier. Input the
person's favorite foods and spice and preferences,
and churn the information to return the ideal item to
make/order/buy to suit this person at the present
time/location/culture.
Robyn Ondrejka FA102B Professor Klinkowstein

3. Related Quora Questions &
Answers
Q: What foods lose the most nutritional value through
cooking, and which ones gain the most?
A1: A lot of raw foods use mechanical break down food to replace the
chemical break down of cooking. When it comes to food, you just have
to decide what’s important to you and how you want to spend your
time and energy.
A2: Most vegies lose vitamins when cooked but cooking tomatoes
actives phytonutrients.
A3: Some vegetables Gain some certain Nutrition value, e.g. carrots ,
potatoes . that is why it is recommended for sick to have vegetable
soup, because all the veggies are cooked in it.
Robyn Ondrejka FA102B Professor Klinkowstein

4. Related question/answers
continued
Q: In what cases does food X really taste that much better from
location Y?
A1: I think it depends on these factors :
• The quality of the ingredients ( fresh seafood, vegetables, fruits ... )
• The quality of the chef 's skill ( familiar with the ingredients,
method of cooking )
• The quality of the recipe ( stick to the original one , no substitute ,
.. )
• The food is fit into the environment of the place you're eating it.(
for example I don't think you would find a super spicy Thai hot pot
tasty in the middle of Sahara )
• The atmosphere of the place you eat. (including landscape or
people who you eat with )
• How you are familiar with the food and the location you eat that
food. ( People often have a soft spot for "home cooking" right.)

5. Theme Question
What product or service may suggest a way to define
the culture behind which recipe/food ingredients can
be substituted for others?
Robyn Ondrejka FA102B Professor Klinkowstein