GuamCookbook.com
Guam's table, shared: a living cookbook and cultural archive.
A community recipe platform for Guam and CHamoru cuisine: an editorial front end with recipes, long-form stories, and a CHamoru language glossary, backed by member accounts, an eight-step recipe-submission wizard, and a full editorial review pipeline. Feature-complete as a local MVP.
The problem
Guam's recipes live in family memory, out-of-print books, and scattered Facebook posts. There's no shared place where the island's food culture is collected, credited, and kept alive.
The system
A living cookbook the community writes together, with an editorial layer that treats cultural accuracy as a review step, not an afterthought. Recipes are reviewed, contributors are credited, and the CHamoru language sits alongside the food.
Inside the system
- Recipe directory with search, filters, and a CHamoru collection
- Recipe pages with ratings, threaded comments, and “I made this”
- Long-form stories with cited sources
- CHamoru language glossary with review-status labels
- Eight-step recipe submission wizard with autosave
- Editorial pipeline: 13 review statuses from submission to publish
- Contributor-editor messaging and revision requests
- Comment moderation, contributor payment ledger, audit log
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