Last updated: September 27, 2026
This Editorial Policy explains how FeastDelights selects, develops, reviews, tests, publishes, and updates recipes and cooking guidance.
FeastDelights is an international recipe website for home cooks. We aim to publish clear, practical content while representing each dish according to its actual culinary background. We do not treat one country or cuisine as the default identity of the website.
This policy applies to recipes, cooking guides, ingredient explanations, cultural and historical notes, nutrition information, images, author profiles, and related editorial content.
Our Editorial Principles
FeastDelights bases its editorial work on the following principles:
- Write for home cooks rather than search engines
- Make instructions clear enough to follow in a normal home kitchen
- Distinguish documented kitchen testing from editorial review
- Identify traditional recipes and modern adaptations accurately
- Avoid unsupported health, nutrition, safety, and authenticity claims
- Give each article an accountable author
- Correct material errors when they are identified
- Disclose commercial relationships and meaningful uses of automated tools
- Never invent an author’s experience, qualifications, memories, or cultural background
Search demand can help us understand what readers need, but it does not determine whether a claim is true or a recipe is safe.
How We Select Topics
Recipe ideas may come from:
- Common questions from home cooks
- Seasonal ingredients
- Everyday cooking needs
- Traditional and regional dishes
- Useful cooking techniques
- Reader feedback
- Gaps in the existing FeastDelights recipe collection
- Updates needed on older articles
Before assigning a new article, we check whether FeastDelights already has a page serving the same reader need. Closely overlapping topics should be combined rather than published as multiple repetitive pages.
We do not select a dish merely because a search phrase is popular. A proposed recipe must offer practical value, a clear cooking purpose, or reliable cultural and technical information.
Recipe Development
A FeastDelights recipe begins with a defined cooking task, such as preparing a particular dish, learning a technique, using an ingredient, or solving a common problem.
The development process may include:
- Defining the intended dish and serving purpose
- Reviewing established versions and reputable sources
- Identifying the role of each ingredient
- Checking quantities, ratios, temperatures, and timings
- Reviewing the order and logic of the method
- Converting measurements where appropriate
- Adding observable signs of doneness
- Assessing substitutions and regional ingredient differences
- Reviewing food-safety concerns
- Editing the complete recipe for clarity and consistency
The assigned author is responsible for the draft. A FeastDelights editor must review the article before publication.
The editor checks whether the ingredient list matches the instructions, every listed ingredient is used, quantities remain consistent, important steps are present, and the finished recipe answers the reader’s likely questions.
Kitchen Testing and Editorial Review
Kitchen testing and editorial review are not the same.
What counts as kitchen-tested?
A recipe is considered kitchen-tested only when the dish has been physically prepared using the published ingredients and method, and the relevant observations have been recorded.
A useful test record may include:
- Ingredients and quantities used
- Equipment and pan size
- Preparation and cooking time
- Oven or cooking temperature
- Changes made during testing
- Yield or serving count
- Texture, colour, flavour, and doneness observations
- Problems found and how they were corrected
A recipe must not be described as kitchen-tested merely because its ingredient ratios appear reasonable, a similar dish has been cooked before, or the method was reviewed by an experienced cook.
What does editorially reviewed mean?
An editorially reviewed recipe has been checked for structure, clarity, ingredient consistency, conversions, method logic, sourcing, and obvious safety concerns. It may not have been physically prepared in its final published form.
When no documented kitchen test has occurred, FeastDelights uses Editorially reviewed rather than Kitchen-tested in any public or internal process description.
We do not promise that every recipe has been physically tested. Testing claims must be supported by retained notes.
Sources and Research
Recipe research may use:
- Official food-safety agencies
- Government or university publications
- Reputable culinary reference books
- Cultural institutions
- Historical collections
- Ingredient manufacturers
- Recognized culinary publications
- Documented regional sources
- Interviews or notes from identifiable contributors
- Multiple established versions of a traditional dish
Sources are evaluated according to the claim being made. An official food-safety source is preferable for safe temperatures or storage guidance, while a regional culinary source may be more appropriate for understanding a traditional preparation.
FeastDelights does not copy complete recipes from other websites or reproduce another writer’s distinctive language. Facts, common techniques, and traditional methods may be researched from multiple sources and expressed through original writing.
Source links and research notes should be retained in the article record when they support important factual, historical, cultural, nutrition, or safety claims.
Traditional Recipes and Cultural Context
Every dish should be represented according to its actual history and culinary context.
When writing about a traditional or regional recipe, we aim to:
- Confirm the dish’s origin using credible sources
- Acknowledge meaningful regional variations
- Avoid presenting one family or regional version as the only correct version
- Separate established tradition from modern adaptation
- Avoid unsupported claims that a recipe is authentic, original, ancient, or universally prepared in one way
- Use culturally accurate ingredient and technique names
- Explain unfamiliar terms for international readers
An adaptation should be identified when ingredients, methods, equipment, or presentation differ meaningfully from the documented traditional versions.
Authors must not write invented first-person memories or suggest a personal cultural connection they do not have.
Measurements and Ingredient Standards
FeastDelights aims to make recipes understandable across different countries.
Depending on the recipe, we may provide metric and US customary measurements. Conversions must be checked for the actual ingredient rather than applying the same cup-to-gram value to every product.
Our recipe standards include:
- Using weights where precision is important
- Keeping units consistent within a recipe
- Identifying tablespoon and teaspoon measurements clearly
- Providing Celsius and Fahrenheit oven temperatures where practical
- Stating whether a temperature is conventional or fan-assisted when relevant
- Giving pan or baking-dish dimensions
- Explaining regional ingredient names
- Identifying important characteristics such as flour type or dairy fat content
- Avoiding vague quantities when accuracy affects the result
A substitution is included only when there is a reasonable basis for believing it will work. Substitutions must not be presented as identical when they may alter flavour, texture, structure, cooking time, yield, nutrition, or safety.
Food Safety, Allergens, and Nutrition
Food-safety information must be checked against current authoritative guidance when a recipe involves internal cooking temperatures, cooling, storage, reheating, preserving, canning, fermentation, raw eggs, meat, seafood, or other higher-risk ingredients.
Important safety guidance should appear at the step where the cook needs it. A general disclaimer cannot replace clear instructions within the recipe.
FeastDelights does not guarantee that a recipe is free from allergens or cross-contact. Dietary labels such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, or nut-free describe the intended recipe but do not replace checking every product label.
Nutrition figures, when included, are estimates. They can vary because of product brands, serving sizes, substitutions, cooking methods, and the amount consumed. Nutrition information is not medical advice.
We do not publish claims that a recipe treats, prevents, cures, or manages a disease unless the claim is supported by appropriate evidence and reviewed by a qualified professional.
Authors, Editors, and Accountability
Every FeastDelights recipe should have a named author responsible for its written content.
Author assignments are based on the contributor’s documented role and suitable subject areas. A contributor may focus on everyday meals, baking, desserts, traditional dishes, regional recipes, or another defined area without being presented as an authority on every cuisine.
Author biographies must not include unverified claims about:
- Professional chef status
- Restaurant employment
- Formal qualifications
- Awards
- Published recipe counts
- International recognition
- Cultural heritage
- Personal testing experience
A reviewer or editor may be identified when that person made a meaningful contribution and their role can be verified.
Readers can learn about our contributors on the FeastDelights Authors page.
Images and Visual Accuracy
FeastDelights may use original photography, properly licensed images, stock photography, or generated illustrations.
An image must not be presented as original food photography if it is licensed, stock, or generated. Image captions, credits, filenames, and alternative text should describe the visual accurately.
Generated illustrations may help explain a cooking idea or provide editorial presentation, but they are not evidence that a recipe was physically prepared or tested.
We avoid images that contain copied interfaces, unrelated branding, visible personal information, misleading ingredients, or a finished dish that materially conflicts with the recipe.
AI-Assisted Editorial Work
FeastDelights may use generative AI or other automated tools to assist with:
- Topic planning
- Content outlines
- Early drafting
- Language editing
- Measurement or formatting checks
- Metadata
- Structured-data preparation
- Image concepts
- Generated editorial illustrations
AI-assisted material is not published without meaningful human review.
The assigned author or editor remains responsible for checking ingredients, quantities, steps, conversions, cultural claims, source links, safety guidance, internal links, and other factual details.
AI output must not be treated as a source. It must not be used to invent quotations, references, recipe tests, author experiences, professional qualifications, cultural memories, or claims about the result of a dish.
Use of an automated tool does not replace editorial accountability.
Commercial Independence
FeastDelights may earn revenue from advertising, sponsored content, affiliate relationships, or other commercial arrangements.
Advertising does not automatically represent an editorial recommendation. A sponsor or advertiser may not purchase an unsupported recipe claim, false review, or misleading endorsement.
Sponsored material, gifted products, and affiliate relationships must be disclosed clearly when they affect a page. Any relevant disclosure should appear where readers can see it before acting on a recommendation or commercial link.
Commercial considerations may influence which topics are considered, but they must not determine factual conclusions, safety guidance, testing claims, or the outcome of an editorial review.
Updates and Corrections
Recipes may be reviewed after publication because of:
- A reader report
- A missing or unclear step
- An incorrect quantity
- A broken link
- New food-safety guidance
- A cultural or historical attribution concern
- A change in an ingredient or product
- A measurement or conversion problem
- An improvement to structure or readability
Minor spelling, punctuation, and formatting changes may be made without a correction note.
A material correction affects the meaning or use of the page. Examples include changes to ingredient quantities, cooking temperatures, safety instructions, timing, origin, allergen information, nutrition claims, or the expected result. Material corrections should be explained visibly when readers need to know what changed.
The displayed updated date should change when a substantive review or material revision occurs. Changing a date without meaningfully reviewing the content is not an acceptable freshness practice.
How to Report a Problem
Readers can report an error, unsafe instruction, broken link, cultural-attribution concern, or unclear recipe step through our Contact Us page or by emailing info@feastdelights.com.
Please include:
- The recipe or article title
- The complete page URL
- The exact information or instruction in question
- A short explanation of the concern
- A reliable source or cooking observation when relevant
Reports are reviewed against the current page, available source notes, author records, test notes where they exist, and relevant authoritative guidance.
Not every suggestion will result in a change, but clear evidence and specific cooking observations are considered carefully.
Learn more about FeastDelights and its purpose on our About Us page.