• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.160-168
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• 2016

The classification and evaluation of cooking that is being published on the internet are presented without scientific criteria based on individual subjective factors. In this paper, we objectified the degree of cooking difficulty based on the information entropy. And we measured the similarity by calculating the common entropy between recipes and constructed a social network based on the recipe similarity. As a result of measuring the cooking difficulty, 'Dongtae Haemul-jjim' (Korean) and 'Vegetarian Lasagna' (Italy) are the most difficult recipes and 'Gochu-jang' (Korean) and 'Tofu steak' (Italy) are the easiest recipes. Through the recipe network, the similarity between Korean and Asian cooking is higher than Western cuisine. We showed a similar recipe to a particular cooking, the group of similar recipes, and reasonable schedule when preparing the menu from the viewpoint of ease of cooking.