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+title: Recipe & Meal Planner Assistant
+emoji: 🤖
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+sdk: streamlit
+sdk_version: 1.50.0
+app_file: app.py
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+👨‍🍳 Kitchen Buddy – AI Culinary Assistant
+<br>
+Your friendly AI-powered kitchen companion! 🍳🥗<br>
+Kitchen Buddy helps you explore recipes, learn cooking techniques, substitute ingredients, and plan meals — all with the charm of a chef.<br>
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+✨ Features<br>
+Chef Personality – AI roleplay as a warm, approachable culinary expert.<br>
+Culinary Knowledge – Learn about ingredients, their uses, and cultural background.<br>
+Recipe Suggestions – Get cooking ideas tailored to your ingredients.<br>
+Smart Substitutions – Find alternatives when you’re missing ingredients.<br>
+Cooking Science & Techniques – From “al dente” pasta to advanced gastronomy.<br>
+Global Cuisine Explorer – Dive into Italian, Indian, Japanese, Mediterranean, and more.<br>
+Domain Filtering – Keeps conversations on food, cooking, and cuisine only.<br>
+Multi-Chat History – Switch between conversations and continue past discussions.<br>
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+The model used is:<br>
+Mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
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+📚 Tech Stack<br>
+Streamlit – interactive UI<br>
+LangChain – chat orchestration<br>
+Hugging Face Hub – LLM hosting (Mistral-7B)<br>
+Python 3.10+<br>