Accounting for tastes could be taken care of reasonably well in well named recipes: 'country style ratatouille' Thai style ratatouille, a new twist on an old favorite.'
But anyway, I think there's more to it then just recipes. I want to make pate. Could be trout, could be pork, could be goose. Where do I start. What kind of pate do i want. A really good solution would let you find new foods.
maybe not.
Anyway, if you can come up with a way to recommend a recipe specifically for my tastes, available ingredients & all that Jazz, I'm in. But first I'd like to know why the simple solution isn't working.