Anduin2017/HowToCook resource

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101977 stars · 11084 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A community-driven open-source cookbook that teaches programmers how to cook at home with precise, structured recipes written in Markdown. It includes a self-hostable web viewer (Docker image) with search, multilingual AI translation, and hundreds of Chinese home-style recipes.

Use cases

• learn to cook basic Chinese dishes at home
• find a recipe by ingredient or dish name
• self-host a recipe website with Docker
• contribute recipes to an open-source cookbook
• follow beginner-friendly step-by-step cooking instructions
• browse recipes in my native language

When to choose

• you want precise, programmer-friendly recipe formatting
• you want a free, public-domain recipe collection you can fork or self-host
• you are a beginner cooking Chinese home-style dishes

When to avoid

• you need professional culinary training or advanced techniques
• you want non-Chinese cuisines as the primary focus
• you need a mobile app with offline meal planning

Facets

learning-resource · maturity active

documentation self-hosted search-engine food education self-hosted self-hosted cross-platform cookbook recipes chinese-cuisine cooking-guide markdown-recipes community-driven localization web-server docker

Member repositories

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