Cherished recipes are like great stories, passed from generation to generation and friend to neighbor. Like legends, there is no one true version of any dish - each artist adds their own angle, a bit from their heritage or a compromise for their diet or religious restrictions.

Enter AllRecipes.com - not just a database of dishes, but a community of cooks.

One thing the site does really well: when you rate a dish you also leave a comment. This is important because “1 of 5″ isn’t as telling as “needs less allspice” - if you saw 1 of 5, you’d skip it, but now you reduce the allspice and enjoy an otherwise great recipe.

AllRecipes guides users to give specific information, and that creates rich content. How specific are the ratings you collect?