I like the help message :)

All subdomains rolled out by top level domains like yahoo, ebay, etc are given at high initial PR... whether it sticks after the next public PR update is another story

On the subject of Yahoo Food... I really hate the navigation in this product. It is "semitabbed". There are tabs at the top but they move when you click on them. All the tabs except the one you are on fold into a little box. Look at this page for an example.

http://food.yahoo.com/special-days/;_ylt=AsilbmETR52z9Tr6BbhHTq9DY.Y5

LOL! I pictured something like your "Google Food" page immediately after browsing through Yahoo's page. It's like Yahoo is thinking to themselves "How much can we cram onto one page?"

You can get recipes in google from the Google Base:

http://www.google.com/base/search?a_n0=recipes&scoring=ld&a_y0=9&a_s0=0&a_r=1

Since at least 2003, recipes have been appearing on Ask.com results page if the query string suggest that the user might want a recipe.

Examples:

Steak Recipes
http://www.ask.com/web?q=steak+recipes&qsrc=0&o=333&l=dir

Chicken
http://www.ask.com/web?o=333&qsrc=6&l=dir&q=Chicken+Recipes

Soup
http://www.ask.com/web?q=soup+recipes&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir

Vegetarian
http://www.ask.com/web?q=vegetarian+recipes&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir

Tofu
http://www.ask.com/web?o=333&qsrc=6&l=dir&q=Tofu+Recipes

Bread Recipes
http://www.ask.com/web?q=bread+recipes&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir

Salad Recipes
http://www.ask.com/web?q=salad+recipes&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir

on a related note:
AllRecipes offers a database, two to be precise:
1) Ingrediant Search dbase
http://allrecipes.com/Search/Ingredients.aspx

2) And quick recipe search.
http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes.aspx

Another great food and wine site, Epicurious provides a great wine/food glossary and herb and spice guide and
http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/herbandspice/
http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/food_dictionary/
http://www.epicurious.com/drinking/wine_dictionary/

There advanced interface for recipes is amazing.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/find/advanced/. They also offer a drink database:
http://www.epicurious.com/drinking/find

What else would you expect. Quick on the submit button. Let me also point out that many Ask.com Smart Answers for holdidays also include recipes. Examples:

Thanksgiving
http://www.ask.com/web?q=thanksgiving&qsrc=0&o=333&l=dir

Easter
http://www.ask.com/web?q=easter&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir

Passover
http://www.ask.com/web?q=passover&qsrc=1&o=333&l=dir

I went ahead and implemented that second picture for you!
http://www.grimmthething.com/other/cse/googlefood.html

Thanks for your brilliant work on this GB. I like help for poison victims as well. I have to put a plug in for my recipe site recipething.com Our approach is more of a social network meets GTD for recipes. FWIW.