Great to see everyone's responses. If you find this interesting there are some additional people / concepts that might be of interest to you:<p>- Marc Powell's Food Genome Project
(<a href="http://dev.foodgenome.com/home" rel="nofollow">http://dev.foodgenome.com/home</a>)<p>- Hilary Mason- building a statistical model of chocolate chip cookies (<a href="http://bit.ly/q1lk5Q" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/q1lk5Q</a>)<p>- Will Turnage - re-imaging recipes with data (<a href="http://bit.ly/rgD4gd" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/rgD4gd</a>)
<i>> "It would be interesting to study how these are affected by the availability of ingredients and cultural influences."</i><p>It would be like a window into history, but focused on food.<p>My inner fat guy historian is very excited.