StumbleUpon is great for finding new websites, and this evening while waiting for some cooking show videos to render on my video editing computer, I stumbled upon Open Source Food on my laptop, see www.opensourcefood.com

Open Source Food is a new Web 2.0 styled community based recipe website which is driven by the community. Designed and developed Yong Fook in Tokyo, Japan the site has a very clean look and feel and has many Web 2.0 styled features. Via a video, Yong Fook mentioned his inspiration was developed by English celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay. Here watch a video presentation from Yong Fook below.

After registration (which is very simple Web 2.0 style), you simply create your profile, upload your photo, add a short blurb about yourself, then your ready to start adding recipes to Open Source Food.

Each recipe requires a photo, ingredients and a method, and then after you’ve submitted the recipe, the community can comment and rate other people’s recipes according to originality, presentation and overall yumminess. The three levels of rating include;

Sounds Yummy! (green with one star), Sounds Yummy! Great Photo!(yellow with two stars) and lastly Sounds Great! Great Photo! Imaginative!(red with the three stars).

One of the coolest features of Open Source Food is the blog widget which displays your ten last recipes in a slide show. No doubt this will fuel a great deal of viral traffic to Open Source Food in the coming months.

I have already created my profile on Open Source Food, have a look here.

My only suggestion to Yong Fook about Open Source Food, is that for busy people (especially chefs) like myself I don’t have time to contribute every recipe I create. It would be great when creating a profile to be able to add a RSS feed of recipes, which can be syndicated directly into Open Source Food and republished in their styling. After I wrote this, I realized that this point was also suggested on Yong Fook’s own website by Nanimo.