The right architecture for a cooking tool isn't an embedding alone or an LLM alone — it's both. The embedding handles deterministic retrieval and pairing ('what goes with chicken across 4M recipes'), while the LLM handles generation (recipes, quantities, technique). A 4.7 MB lookup table beats hitting an API for the pairing call every time.
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