Cuisine Connect: Personalized Recipe Recommender with Language Support

Cuisine Connect is an intelligent recipe recommendation system that transforms a simple list of user-provided ingredients into a curated selection of personalized recipes. It is designed to enhance the cooking experience for a beginner to cook, so that picking the precise ingredients for a recipe is essential, the system leverages advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques to pre-process user inputs and efficiently match them with a comprehensive recipe database. Pre-processing steps such as stop word removal, stemming, and TF-IDF vectorization enable accurate ingredient matching and filtering. The backend, built entirely using Flask, ensures robust and seamless communication between the user interface and the recipe database. Cuisine Connect supports multilingual recipe instructions, empowering users to explore and follow diverse cuisines in their preferred language. This feature-rich system also incorporates efficient data scraping and pre-processing pipelines to maintain an up-to-date repository of recipes. By offering a user-friendly interface and real-time responses, Cuisine Connect bridges the gap between available ingredients and culinary creativity, encouraging users to experiment with new dishes as well as minimizing food waste.