📖 How we create recipes
An honest look at how the FoodLore editorial kitchen works.
✍️ Who writes the recipes
Every recipe and article on FoodLore is written and edited by a small in-house team. We don't buy ready-made content or publish unreviewed reader submissions — every piece goes through the same editorial process: picking the dish, checking the ingredient list and technique, adapting it into a clear step-by-step format, and preparing bilingual Russian/English versions.
🎮 How we adapt food from games, movies and cartoons
Dishes "from universes" (Naruto ramen, Witcher gingerbread, Harry Potter butterbeer and so on) are our own interpretation of what a dish mentioned or shown in a game, movie or cartoon might look and taste like. This is NOT an official recipe from the rights holder and not a licensed product — game, movie and cartoon names are used purely descriptively, to explain the source of inspiration; FoodLore is not affiliated with their creators, studios or publishers.
📏 What the measurements and techniques are based on
The proportions, cooking time and temperature in our recipes are based on standard culinary techniques and classic recipes for the relevant cuisine or dish type — the same body of knowledge most food publications draw on. We do not claim that every recipe is personally tested in an in-house test kitchen before publishing: that is not a formalized process for us right now, and we don't want to create the impression that it is.
🔎 Accuracy and updates
We aim to be accurate, but fact-checking as a separate formalized process hasn't been rolled out yet — this is honestly reflected in every blog post's metadata (a "fact-checked" badge only appears where that check actually happened). The "last updated" date is only shown where an article was genuinely revised after publishing.
📬 Found a mistake or inaccuracy?
If something in a recipe didn't work, seemed inaccurate, or you spotted a factual error in an article — we don't have a dedicated feedback channel set up yet; we're gradually building this part of the project out. Thank you for reading closely: that kind of attention is exactly what helps us catch and fix inaccuracies.