Sources & licenses
This site combines the open sources below, with translation, formatting and regional classification, to present 8,641 home recipes from around the world. Each recipe page states its own source, license and photo credit.
TheMealDB 790 recipes
Recipe data and photos from TheMealDB. Japanese translations are ours. Photos are served from TheMealDB.
License / terms: Used under TheMealDB terms (usage terms are being confirmed with the operator).
MAFF Japan “Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” 1,351 recipes
Regional Japanese recipes, descriptions and photos, edited (structure, English translation). Not produced by MAFF. Photos are used with MAFF confirmation, resized only.
License / terms: 公共データ利用規約 第1.0版 (PDL1.0). Each page states the source URL and the edits.
Wikibooks Cookbook (EN/ES/DE/FR/IT) 6,360 recipes
English 3638, Spanish 853, German 426, French 994, Italian 449. Each page links the exact revision used and the page history (authors). Translations/formatting are our modifications.
License / terms: CC BY-SA 4.0. Our modifications (incl. translations) are also released under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Health Canada — Canada’s food guide 140 recipes
Recipes and photos (served from canada.ca). Each page is a copy of the original version with Japanese translation/formatting added. Not produced or endorsed by the Government of Canada.
License / terms: Government of Canada terms (non-commercial reproduction)
Photos
- Wikimedia Commons 1,547 — Photos attached to Wikibooks recipes; author and license (CC BY / CC BY-SA / PD etc.) are stated per image on each page. No NC/ND images. Served from Wikimedia.
- Pixabay 15 — Used as illustrative photos for some recipes without a photo.Pixabay Content License; photographer and Pixabay link on each page; served from this site.
- MAFF 1,350 — See PDL1.0 above.
- Health Canada 136 — See Government of Canada terms above.
- TheMealDB 790 — See TheMealDB above.
4,803 recipes have no photo and show a placeholder.
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