Rosemary & Thyme — A Modern Almanac of the Kitchen

Rosemary&Thyme

A modern almanac of the kitchen — with a quiet, private sous-chef living entirely on your device.

Seventy thousand recipes from the dawn of the open internet, gently rewritten for a modern hand. Search them by appetite, not by keyword. Cook them with company, not a cloud.

“A recipe is, more than anything, a story.” — Rosemary, ch. I

Chapter I

Seventy Thousand Recipes

the catalogue

Sourced from RecipeSource, the great Usenet recipe archive begun by Jennifer Snider in 1993. Gently rewritten by hand and machine, sorted by region and type, and packed into your pocket.

Chapter II

Search by Appetite

semantic search

Ask for “something warm for a rainy Sunday,” or “quick dairy-free supper.” A small language model lives on your device and understands you the way a friend behind the counter would.

Chapter III

Rosemary, Your Sous Chef

the assistant

A conversational companion that knows your pantry, suggests substitutions, scales recipes for company, and never once telephones the cloud to ask permission.

Chapter IV

Recipes from Anywhere

the web importer

Found a recipe online? Share the link. The clutter, the autoplay video, the family memoir before the ingredient list — all gone. Only the recipe remains.

Chapter V

English & Spanish, Fully Spoken

two tongues

Every recipe, every tip, and every conversation translated and re-checked. Cooking is conversational; your cookbook should be too.

Chapter VI

Accessible by Design

for every cook

Comprehensive VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, large type, and a Cook Mode that keeps the screen lit so you may stir with both hands.

No accounts. No cloud. No compromises.

Every recipe lookup, every search, and every word exchanged with Rosemary happens on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The app does not telephone home. There is no telephone.

Apple Intelligence

On-device LLM

VecturaKit + Accelerate

On-device search

Zero telemetry

No analytics, ever

A library built by hand, one post at a time.

In 1993, while a student at Berkeley, Jennifer Snider discovered Usenet newsgroups and the curious habit certain strangers had of posting their grandmothers’ recipes there. She began saving them. Two years later, the collection went up on the web as SOAR — the Searchable Online Archive of Recipes, and later became RecipeSource. Rosemary & Thyme is, in a sense, the archive’s third life: each recipe gently rewritten by a small language model, scored for quality, sorted by region and type, and bound up again for a phone-sized shelf.

With profound thanks to Jennifer Snider, and to every cook who ever pressed “send.”

Visit the original archive RecipeSource on archive.org The certificate has long since expired — but the recipes endure.

Free, & will remain so. The chef, however, takes tips.

Rosemary & Thyme lives on the App Store free of charge, with no ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking. If it has saved you a Sunday or two, consider leaving something on the counter.

A token of appreciation

Buy the chef a cup of coffee, and keep the pot on the stove.

With profound thanks. — The kitchen

p.s. Every coffee buys an evening’s worth of new recipes.