Food

First, you get your salads created for you. Next, your dinner plans are resolved, with just a few keywords. Cook Think asks you what you're craving, you type in the first words that come to mind, or choose an ingredient, cuisine or mood--it offers keyword suggestions of their own as you pluck, from the ether, the very words that describe the gnawing, nameless hunger that consumes you--and Cook Think's fancy search engine throws up pages of recipes designed to fill up that empty hole inside of you.

In my preliminary research, I typed in salty, clicked on the suggested "protein rich" keyword that appeared, and then, after a moment's thought, added "easy." They are all words to describe me. They are also words that describe exactly what I want right this second. The mood keywords made me happy: beautiful lemony doughy garlicky titillating moist sensuous verdant caramelized meaty aromatic tart unrefined unique show-off-y fresh unhealthy mouthfilling subtle sumptuous southern calming yeasty bursting zesty. It's like poetry, isn't it? I couldn't decide what mood was really me, and after I realized I was spending way too long trying to figure it out, I just clicked "search" instead. And one of the first recipes that popped up fills every one of those needs--broiled chicken breasts with blue cheese! It's like they read my mind! And gauged my level of skill with deadly accuracy. Maybe they'll read yours, too.

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