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+Cooking with Scheme
+===================
+
+# Motivation
+
+After tireless hours of searching for a recipe management application that would
+allow me to upload my own recipes, I grew tired. Mostly due to the plethora of
+snazzy web apps that had _rad recipe recommendations_ but only supported
+uploading ones own recipes if they were made publicly available and shared with
+other users. This, along with the fear of not being able to easily extract the
+recipes from these web services in case I would like to switch to another
+service, motivated me to write it all---and why not do it in Scheme?
+
+
+# What is this?
+
+This repository contains as of now four things:
+
+* Grammar for a DSL for cookbooks/recipes (much WIP)
+* Parser for this DSL written in Scheme
+* Compiler between the DSL and HTML
+* Barebones Ruby-based (Sinatra) web-server for presenting recipes
+
+
+# Contributions
+
+Contributions in the form of issues and comments are welcome.