Interactive recipe book - enhance your traditional recipe book: showing cultural heritage through cooking

Abstract

This paper describes the production of a recipe book with an accompanying Augmented Reality App for cultural content to be digitised. We collected material for our book and the App through interviewing and filming people that are working for the Corona Guest Farm in Namibia. Thanks to the fantastic landscape, we were able to gather astonishing pictures to use in the book. We want to show the traditional ways of preparing different dishes as well as the cultural background which they belong to. In post-production, we adjusted the newly created content to fit with the application. What we ascertained is that a lot of recipe books do not capture the cultural identity of the dishes. Augmented Reality is a perfect way to show the cultural heritage that belongs to the different recipes and dishes. Through this paper, we describe the recognition software that makes this possible and demonstrate its benefits with some examples of the augmentation. We will also go through the process of creating the content needed for the Augmented Reality App. What we wanted to achieve was to combine traditional media (books) and digital technologies to enrich the experience of using classical recipe books and reinforcing interest in cultural exchange. This paper will focus on the recipe book, preparation of the dishes as well as the augmented reality app made explicitly for a Namibian guest farm.