Epicure

Navigating the Geometry of Food

by @tomacco

co-occurrence chemistry
COOC
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Organized by recipe co-occurrence. Ingredients that get cooked together in the same dishes appear as neighbors.
e.g. chicken → garlic, onion, black pepper, turkey
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EPICURE

Navigating the Geometry of Food

You're looking at 250 food ingredients from cuisines around the world, mapped into 3D space by how they relate to each other. Ingredients that appear together in recipes cluster together. Ingredients that share flavor chemistry pull closer.

Three embedding models — COOC (co-occurrence in recipes), CORE (blended), and CHEM (flavor chemistry) — each organize the same ingredients differently. Drag the slider to watch the clusters reshape in real time.

Based on the paper by Radzikowski & Chen (2026), trained on 4.14M recipes across 7 languages.
Visualization by @tomacco
Drag slider to reshape clusters · Click ingredients to explore