Analysis of traditional Italian food recipes: Experiments and results

Traditional recipes are among those elements that UNESCO included in its Intangible Cultural Heritage for safeguarding. Traditional recipes are passed down from one generation to the other, and offer strong links with a particular territory. Driven by the important role of food recipes in the cultural heritage domain, we have create CookIt, a web portal with the aim to collect, disseminate and safeguard the knowledge of typical Italian recipes and the Mediterranean diet which is a significant part of the Italian cuisine. In this paper we present some preliminary results in recipe analysis to be used within our web portal to support innovative ways to navigate and browse them. We developed some processing and visualization tools to support the analysis and the presentation of the recipes. Our tools are tailored for the Italian language although they can be generalized.