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ProjectDescription.md

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-# Your Project Name
+# Mama Tong's Cookbook
 
-### a cool tagline...
+### A cookbook from generation to generation.
 
-Less than 300 words which describe your project. Etc,....
+**Description**
 
+*The problem:*
+ 
+ I can't understand everything my mom says because of a language barrier. 
+Even though, as an adult, I've striven to learn more about my culture and my family's language
+I'm not able to understand everything my parents say, since our first languages have differed from the beginning.
 
-* Your Name Here
+Like many other children of immigrants, there is a disconnect when we become a new generation,
+and personally, I feel the best way to preserve a culture or familial tradition, is through cooking.
+
+
+*The project*
+
+I want to create an app that stores recipes.
+
+
+Sometimes, there's a special word for an ingredient that only our teachers (my mother) would know.
+With the ability to add a customized translation, that barrier is, well, no longer there.
+
+
+A google translate will serve a really important part of this project.
+Consider this scenario: My mother can only write really well in Vietnamese and all of her recipe cards are in Vietnamese.
+If she inputs Vietnamese into the app, the google translate will take that and translate it to English for someone like me,
+who cannot read Vietnamese very well!
+
+
+The program, currently unsure if I want it to be a phone app first, creates a "cookbook" for the family
+to log into and retrieve a list of recipes. The cookbook is a login that will connect
+the user to their family's database of amazing recipes. 
+
+
+Some features:
+Add & Store recipes in the cookbook.
+Private access through login.
+Custom translation input - maybe for each cookbook, maybe universal (for all cookbooks?)
+Translation outside of input only to english. (Can go to any other language that is supported)
+Public Cookbook access ("Powered by google") - search engine for a recipe
+
+*Eventually* social media linkage, to Pinterest, share to Facebook, retweet, Take an instagram photo.
+
+
+* Trinh Tong