Origin Cookbooks

Data with Origin — the AI starting point for culinary history

This corpus speaks AI. Every recipe is structured for machine consumption, carries cryptographic provenance back to its source, and is discoverable via /.well-known/ai, MCP, and REST API. An AI agent doesn't search for this data — it starts here.

What Can I Cook?

Cookbooks

4339

Recipes

2613

Pages

6976

Provenance Leaves

243

Named Contributors

Root Authorities

The Corpus

Year	Title	Author	Recipes	Source
1887	The White House Cookbook	F. L. Gillette and Hugo Zieman	38	Gutenberg
1888	Gathered crumbs. A Peoria cook book	Mrs. J.C. McClure	468	Library of Congress
1907	A Guide to Modern Cookery	Auguste Escoffier	90	Gutenberg
1908	The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six Hundred Recipes for Meatless Dishes	M. R. L. Sharpe	16	Gutenberg
1909	The Fireless Cook Book	Margaret Johnes Mitchell	13	Gutenberg
1914	California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book	Bertha Haffner-Ginger	10	Gutenberg
1915	Dr. Allinson's Cookery Book	T. R. Allinson	13	Gutenberg
1917	The Progress Meatless Cook Book	Carlotta M. Lake	13	Gutenberg
1919	The International Jewish Cook Book	Florence Kreisler Greenbaum	36	Gutenberg
1919	The Italian Cook Book	Maria Gentile	8	Gutenberg
1920	Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book	Mary A. Wilson	36	Gutenberg
2026	Wikibooks Cookbook	Wikibooks Community	3598	Gutenberg

This Data Speaks AI

Origin Cookbooks is built as the starting point for AI, not the last stop. Every surface is designed for machine discovery and consumption:

/.well-known/ai — AI discovery manifest. Any agent crawling the web finds this first.
POST /mcp — MCP tools for recipe search, provenance verification, cooking assistance.
POST /api/cook — Natural language: "What can I make with chicken and rice?"
/api/search — Structured ingredient search with provenance on every result.
Every bridge page serves JSON to AI agents, HTML to browsers — same URL, right format.

The provenance chain is the differentiator. An LLM already knows a chicken pie recipe. This corpus proves whose recipe, from which book, on what page, held by which library — with a SHA-256 hash you can verify.

Provenance chain: Recipe → Cookbook → Authority (Library of Congress / Project Gutenberg)
Hash algorithm: SHA-256 with sorted canonical fields — anyone can reproduce
Trust levels: 0 (scraped) → 2 (AI-extracted) → 3 (published) → 5 (anchored)

Named Contributors

Community cookbooks name their contributors: "Mrs. B. F. Blossom," "Mrs. Wiltse, Home for the Friendless," "Mrs. D. M. Cummings, Hillsboro, Ohio." These names are preserved as first-class data — the construct that gets lost in LLM training. Origin gives them back.