Food.com Recipe Recommender

Recommends recipes using:

• Content-based retrieval (TF-IDF over ingredients)
• (Planned) Collaborative filtering for implicit feedback

Repo structure

• src/: library code
• experiments/: notebooks / exploration only
• data/raw/: raw datasets (ignored by git)
• data/processed/: cleaned datasets (ignored by git)

Data

This project pulls the dataset directly from Kaggle via kagglehub:

• Dataset: shuyangli94/food-com-recipes-and-user-interactions

Kaggle authentication (required)

kagglehub can authenticate using environment variables:

export KAGGLE_USERNAME="YOUR_KAGGLE_USERNAME"
export KAGGLE_KEY="YOUR_KAGGLE_API_KEY"