Books, SEOs, and AIs. Recipe searching in print and online.

6 November 2025

October 2025

I had cause the other day to use Google to find a recipe for Vegetable Lasagna. While searching for it I reflected on the ways I have used to find recipes over the sixty odd years of my cooking life. How do they work? What if any are the issues with their use and who is affected by them? In these times of rampant plagiarism, knowledge theft and the sale of personal information is anyone being abused. This article is the result of my cogitations. I’m going to use Vegetable Lasagna as my test case in all recipe searches.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.