Recipe sources

My two cents: there are just too many sites. Why not just direct them to google?

Oh, no, I don't want to give anyone what they want.

The result could get imported into not one question body, but either 4.1.1 multiple answers under a question, structured by cathegory, e.g. "recipe databases", "food science books", "regional cuisine books" etc.

or 4.1.2 one of multiple questions, specialized by the categories suggested above

4.1 make a monthly suggestions thread on Meta. Import all good suggestions of the month into a question on Main.

3.2 make community ads instead of a question

so 3.1: a question with multiple answers, each of them kept to a single book title. Extra info can go into comments, but not into the main body.

Then 3: there is the voting on community ads

Back to the solution list, for completeness: 2.x can be about ideas similar to the election functionality. I am certain the team won't let us use the actual question type for that, but maybe somebody will use it as an inspiration. I can't come up with any good ideas about that, but I'm reserving the number for completeness

Solution 1.4: We could have regular events outside the question where the next batch of additions is chosen

Solution 1.3: like 1.1, but only answers with a certain number of upvotes get into the q body

Solution 1.2: we have a "curated list" format and it gets updated with only what the curator decides to put there

Solution 1.1: we have a "curated list" format and it gets updated with anything the users suggest in the answers