INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

get_recipe

Get a full recipe (metadata + content) by country slug and dish slug, e.g.

world.foodnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://world.food/api/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for get_recipe and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.world-food]
url = "https://world.food/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "world-food": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://world.food/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: world-food
Remote MCP URL: https://world.food/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "world-food": {
      "url": "https://world.food/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "world-food": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://world.food/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "world-food",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://world.food/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

search_recipes — Search recipes on world.food by text query, country, tags, or difficulty.
get_recipe_history — Get the public revision history of a recipe (Wikipedia-style).
get_recipe_sides — Get stored traditional accompaniments and linked side recipes, or mains that name this side.
get_similar_recipes — Get precomputed, cross-country dishes similar to a recipe.
list_ingredient_recipes — All published recipes with exact ingredient membership, sorted by views then quality score (NULL score is zero).
get_ingredient_graph — One hop of the ingredient graph around a canonical ingredient key (folded English singular, e.g.
list_recipe_variants — Published user variants of a recipe — deltas (ingredient/step changes, tips) that readers layered on the original or on one of its regional variations, composed on the recipe page with ?variant=u/<slug>.
create_recipe_variant — Publish YOUR version of an existing recipe as a delta on its page — the same dish with a few changes — instead of a copy.