Give This MIT Algorithm a Picture of Food and It'll Give You the Recipe

Have you ever seen (or eaten) a delicious meal and wished you had the recipe to make it? Now all you have to do is take a picture and give it to an algorithm developed by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Their algorithm can find a recipe for you based on nothing more than a single picture of the finished product. The researchers built their algorithm by combing through over a million different recipes collected from various recipe websites. They combined this recipe encyclopedia with image recognition software to identify the type of food in a photo and match it with its corresponding recipe.