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Classification

Ten kinds of tag. Each describes a recipe from one angle only, and a recipe carries as many as it needs. The tags travel with the dish, not with any single revision of it.

Types 10
Tags 50
Empty 1
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Types of tag

ten · one not yet populated
50 tags
01

Cuisine

eleven tags

Where a dish comes from. One only, and it never changes once set.

02

Course

five tags

Where the dish sits in a meal — what you would put it next to on the table.

03

Technique

fifteen tags

What the cook actually does to the food, named by the action rather than the outcome.

04

Diet

two tags

Who can eat it as written, without substituting anything out.

05

Season

one tag

When the ingredients are at their best, or when the weather makes the method work.

06

Equipment

eight tags

What you must already own before the first step makes sense.

07

Occasion

two tags

Why you would make it — the reason that gets it onto the stove at all.

08

Preservation

three tags

How the keeping time is extended beyond what the raw ingredient allows.

09

Texture

three tags

How it feels to eat, once it is finished and served.

10

Ingredient class

no tags

What an ingredient is in kind, so that like can be swapped for like.

No tags defined yet — the class list is still being drawn up.