On Sunday, December 20, 2015, Hon. Wade MacLauchlan, Premier of Prince Edward Island, called the CBC Radio One program Cross Country Checkup, responding to the question "What is your winter comfort food?" with a description of his recipe for seafood pie.
It cannot have been lost on the Premier that he was following in the tradition of his predecessor as Premier, the late Joe Ghiz, who appeared on CBC Morningside with Peter Gzowski in 1990 and made a Caesar salad.
The Premier followed up on December 23, 2015 by posting the recipe to Twitter. Unfortunately, the Twitter recipe was imprisoned in a low-resolution JPEG image, anathema to any citizen cook concerned with open data.
As a service to the province, thus, I present the Premier's recipe in various open formats, with hopes that this will aid in its flourishing.
The seafoodpie.html file is an HTML version of the recipe (that's a link to the HTML source; you can see a human-readable version here).
In this file, the recipe components wrapped in RDFa, using the Schema.org Recipe vocabulary, so that, for example, the ingredients that look like this to the naked eye:
- 20 lbs fresh mussels
- 5 bottles bar clams
- 5 lobsters
- 3 lbs scallops
- 3 lbs salmon fillets
- 2 lbs trout fillets
- 5 lbs starchy potatoes
- 5 to 10 cups of finely chopped green onions, fennel and/or celery
- Dill, oregano, caraway and black pepper to taste
- 3 eggs
- 20 pie shells
under the hood look like this:
<ul>
<li property="recipeIngredient">20 lbs fresh mussels</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">5 bottles bar clams</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">5 lobsters</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">3 lbs scallops</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">3 lbs salmon fillets</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">2 lbs trout fillets</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">5 lbs starchy potatoes</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">5 to 10 cups of finely chopped green onions, fennel and/or celery</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">Dill, oregano, caraway and black pepper to taste</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">3 eggs</li>
<li property="recipeIngredient">20 pie shells</li>
</ul>
You can view the results of running the HTML through the Google Structured Data Testing Tool to see how the data is parsed.
The seafoodpie.json file is an JSON+LD version of the recipe, using the same Schema.org Recipe vocabulary, so that, for example, the ingredients above look like this:
"recipeIngredient": [
"20 lbs fresh mussels",
"5 bottles bar clams",
"5 lobsters",
"3 lbs scallops",
"3 lbs salmon fillets",
"2 lbs trout fillets",
"5 lbs starchy potatoes",
"5 to 10 cups of finely chopped green onions, fennel and/or celery",
"Dill, oregano, caraway and black pepper to taste",
"3 eggs",
"20 pie shells"
],
The seafoodpie.yaml file is a YAML version of the recipe, using the Pyprika specification, which makes it useful not only for processing in Python, but also for importing into the Paprika OS X and iOS apps. This is a plain-text format where, for example, the ingredients look like this:
ingredients:
- (20 lbs) fresh mussels
- (5 bottles) bar clams
- (5) lobsters
- (3 lbs) scallops
- (3 lbs) salmon fillets
- (2 lbs) trout fillets
- (5 lbs) starchy potatoes
- (5 to 10 cups) of finely chopped green onions, fennel and/or celery
- Dill, oregano, caraway and black pepper to taste
- (3) eggs
- (20) pie shells
If you install Pyrika on your Python-equipped host, you can experiment with it like this (showing the ability to adjust the quantity of ingredients):
>>> import pyprika
>>> recipe = pyprika.load(open('seafoodpie.yaml'))
>>> recipe.ingredients
[<Ingredient: (20 lbs) fresh mussels>, <Ingredient: (5 bottles) bar clams>, <Ingredient: (5) lobsters>, <Ingredient: (3 lbs) scallops>, <Ingredient: (3 lbs) salmon fillets>, <Ingredient: (2 lbs) trout fillets>, <Ingredient: (5 lbs) starchy potatoes>, <Ingredient: (5 to 10 cups) of finely chopped green onions, fennel and/or celery>, <Ingredient: Dill, oregano, caraway and black pepper to taste>, <Ingredient: (3) eggs>, <Ingredient: (20) pie shells>]
>>> more_recipe = 2 * recipe
>>> more_recipe.ingredients
[<Ingredient: (40 lbs) fresh mussels>, <Ingredient: (10 bottles) bar clams>, <Ingredient: (10) lobsters>, <Ingredient: (6 lbs) scallops>, <Ingredient: (6 lbs) salmon fillets>, <Ingredient: (4 lbs) trout fillets>, <Ingredient: (10 lbs) starchy potatoes>, <Ingredient: (10 to 10 cups) of finely chopped green onions, fennel and/or celery>, <Ingredient: Dill, oregano, caraway and black pepper to taste>, <Ingredient: (6) eggs>, <Ingredient: (40) pie shells>]
One presumes that the original recipe is Hon. Wade MacLauclan's and it certainly appears here without any sort of formal permission for reuse, so if you want to publish it in a recipe book or add it to your restaurant's menu, I suggest you ask him.
I'm Peter Rukavina, and I did this simply as a demonstration of why open is better.