"Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson"

[rotuts]

My library showcases new books, many cookbooks.  I recently picked up this one :

 

http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Cooking-Chef-Watson-Innovation/dp/149262571X

 

Watson is of course an IBM computer initially designed to be 'cognitive' , taking on 'Jeopardy' champs and eventually beating them.

 

enough about that.

 

This book uses Watson to come up with new Rx ideas based on Surprise , Pleasantness , and Synergy,  after Watson was trained on

 

thousands of Rx's

 

real chefs work out the rest. perhaps your library ( system ) has the book ?

 

some random Rx's :

 

Bengali Butternut BBQ Sauce  , Portuguese Lobster Roll, Greek Feta Burger

 

i have not tried any Rx yet, but thinking about a few of the Rx's Ive read through there are interesting Ideas here.

 

So far, Watson seems to have missed SV entirely.

[Norm Matthews]

I have a Watson cookbook but it was published in 1944. Mom bought it right after I was born and Watson was a herb & spice company. It was the only cookbook she ever bought. It was stuffed full of hand written recipes and ones clipped out of other publications. 

[suzilightning]

I remember a news piece on cooking with Watson some time last year....probably on CBS's Sunday Morning show. 

[hongda]

A tech blog ran through several of the recipes


http://www.engadget.com/tag/cognitivecomputing/

[nickrey]

I always wondered where those try-hard restaurants get their creative ideas that never quite seem to come together.