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#1 Posted : Sunday, July 30, 2023 12:55:35 PM(UTC)

Fiding myself yet again frustrated by the various filters available for searching books on EYB


I am trying to find books on Chinese cuisine that also have dairy- and gluten-free recipes. Seems I can get Chinese and dairy-free or Chinese and gluten-free but "adding" the other critiera zaps away the Chinese requirement and possibly the dairy-free filter too. I can see that one or more of the filtered criteria is ignored because Hugh Fearnly Wittingstall "River Cottage Veg Every Day" appears in the search results (when I add in dairy-free or gluten-free to the existing criteria) but it isn't there for either Chinese and Dairy-free and Chineses and Gluten-free results.


How do I formulate a search here that satisfies all three criteria as per this search "command"


cuisine=Chinese and diet=(dairy-free and gluten-free)

#2 Posted : Sunday, July 30, 2023 3:35:32 PM(UTC)

By the by I used the four main AI chatbots (Google's Bard, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthrop\c's Claude, and huggingface's Llama) with the query "What cookery books for Chinese cuisine have recipes that are both gluten-free and dairy-free". None of them listed the same books but the cpmbined results contained a dozen different titles.

#3 Posted : Sunday, July 30, 2023 3:35:38 PM(UTC)

Are you actually using the filters on the right (or under the Filter button on a phone) or are you using Boolean searches in the word search box? I suggest you always use our filters as that will be more accurate. Don't forget the filters are AND not OR when you add multiple filters. This is the search you want - Chinese, dairy-free and gluten-free - of the Library Online Recipes.


However if it is books you want, there are no Chinese dairy-free, gluten-free books in the Library but these cookbook recipes that fit that criteria may help you find a book of interest.

#4 Posted : Sunday, July 30, 2023 3:37:15 PM(UTC)

Originally Posted by: Jane Go to Quoted Post
Are you actually using the filters on the right (or under the Filter button on a phone) or are you using Boolean searches in the word search box? I suggest you always use our filters as that will be more accurate. Don't forget the filters are AND not OR when you add multiple filters. This is the search you want - Chinese, dairy-free and gluten-free - of the Library Online Recipes.


Havimg had little success with boolean searching I started with the RGS filters. It is those that messed up.


I don't know how you constructed that search using the ffilters because using them never created the search you've provided.

#5 Posted : Sunday, July 30, 2023 3:40:41 PM(UTC)

If you look at the search result links in my post, they show the applied filters at the top under the search bar. I'm not sure why they are not working for you. Try applying exactly the same filters I did.

#6 Posted : Sunday, July 30, 2023 3:52:03 PM(UTC)

Originally Posted by: Jane Go to Quoted Post
If you look at the search result links in my post, they show the applied filters at the top under the search bar. I'm not sure why they are not working for you. Try applying exactly the same filters I did.


I tried using those specific filters but to no avail. However there is a significant difference in what your search retrieves and what I'm looking for:


Quote:
I am trying to find books …
. Your search is for recipes.

#7 Posted : Sunday, July 30, 2023 8:32:43 PM(UTC)

As I said, there are no books of Chinese gluten-free, dairy-free recipes, which is why I gave you the cookbook recipes that fit those criteria so you could at least see which books contain them, even if that is not the entire content of the books.

#8 Posted : Wednesday, August 2, 2023 4:10:07 AM(UTC)

Originally Posted by: Jane Go to Quoted Post
As I said, there are no books of Chinese gluten-free, dairy-free recipes, which is why I gave you the cookbook recipes that fit those criteria so you could at least see which books contain them, even if that is not the entire content of the books.


Okay but I would have expected the book search to say zero results.


Except there is this https://www.eatyourbooks...ndarin-cookbook-classic-

#9 Posted : Wednesday, August 2, 2023 9:22:36 AM(UTC)

We don't add tags to a book for every recipe in the book - so a book with some vegan recipes is not tagged as Vegan, only books solely or majority vegan has that tag. That is why this book was not tagged as gluten-free and dairy-free. However I can see from the recipe index that it should be since most of the recipes have those tags. I have now added them.


The Library book search using the filters Chinese, gluten-free and dairy-free did show zero results. That search now shows 1 result since I have added the tags to the Sweet Mandarin Cookbook.


Any time a member sees tags for books or recipes that they think are incorrect, we are happy to review them. Please email us.

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