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This paper presents a new answer to one very old question, "What's for dinner?" Synesthetic Recipes is a graphical interface which allows a person to brainstorm dinner recipe ideas by describing how they imagine the recipe should taste (e.g. "hearty, mushy, moist, aromatic"); to keep mindful of the tastebuds of family members, on-screen avatars anticipating their reactions to recipes enrich the brainstorm with just-in-time family’s feedback. 1 Introduction Deciding "What's for dinner?" is such a basic problem facing humankind, yet with all our technological might, there seems a paucity of elegant tools to support this task. Form and ontology- based search interfaces to recipe databases unfairly reduce the artistic and creative process of foraging for food to something so bluntly straightforward as ‘locating a document’. Also, whereas people may naturally articulate their cravings in terms of how they imagine a dish to taste, e.g. 'rich', 'spicy', homey', there was, up to now, no way to navigate recipes using this taste-space language, since the literal searchable text of recipes are restricted to ingredients, cooking algorithms, and basic classifications. Intending to design a more natural interaction, we introduce Synesthetic Recipes, a graphical interface which supports a creative and social navigation over a 60,000-recipe database.