Quick Pitch: Yummly is the world’s first intelligent, semantic search platform for food and recipes.

Genius Idea: Yummly aggregates more than 500,000 recipes from cooking sites you already love — think AllRecipes, Food Network and Epicurious — and queues up recommended recipes based upon your preferences.

After creating an account, you’ll want to immediately dive into your profile and set your likes, dislikes, allergies and dietary needs, which can be applied to all future recipe searches. Here you can also define your cooking skills and shopping preferences, import recipes and view a list of recommended recipes that match your tastes. Yummly touts that it is able to learn your taste preferences over time and more accurately predict recipes you will appreciate.

If you’re on the hunt for just the right recipe, make sure to take advantage of the FoodFinder search tool located on the right-hand side of the search results page. Here you can specify pretty much any constraint on the food you’re interested cooking. Everything from ingredients, taste, pricing, cuisines and courses to nutritional restrictions — such as a vegan diet — can be tailored via the FoodFinder. With each new specification, the selection of recipes is automatically refreshed.

One sweet bonus of Yummly is that it’s easy to immediately see each recipe’s value, or lack thereof, when perusing results. To the right of each listing is a handy little box that calls out recipe factoids so you can quickly glimpse if something is super salty, pricey, time-intensive to prepare or high in calories. The information makes weeding through the vast collection of recipes an effortless experience.

Yummly can even recalculate recipe proportions and caloric information based on servings and substitutions, the latter of which is a feature the more health-conscious among us will definitely appreciate. Simply select a recipe, specify desired servings, add or substitute ingredients, hit save and watch as the caloric information on the right recalculates according to your customizations.

Some other fun features include type-down search in text fields, Facebook sharing, the ability to add your own photos to recipes and foodie communities.

Whatever your culinary abilities or preferences, Yummly is a great place to find and discover recipes best suited to your individual dietary needs.