Building a Local MCP Server for Malayalam Recipes
For a while, I wanted to try MCP with something more personal than a documentation search example or a generic API wrapper. Malayalam recipes turned out to be a good fit. The idea was simple: keep a small collection of Kerala recipes in local JSON, then expose that data through a Model Context Protocol server. The server lets an MCP-compatible client search recipes, fetch a full recipe, scale servings, build a shopping list, translate food terms, and suggest festival menus.