Broaden and check the catalog.
Describe more dishes from underrepresented foodways and review ingredient, preparation, and sensory information with appropriate expertise.
OUR MISSION & VISION
Food understood.
Connection made possible.
Mission. Love Salone builds technology to represent food as people experience it, including overlooked cuisines, and help people discover, share, and make decisions about what they eat.
Vision. We envision better food understanding that respects culture, strengthens community, and can inform carefully designed future research.
Meet the company ↗A LONG-TERM RESEARCH AMBITION
Better questions
about everyday choices.
Founder & CEO Melinda Arnold brings more than 20 years of healthcare experience, including leading a team that supports customers. Her Sierra Leonean perspective and interest in people’s health shape the questions we want to explore.
How do preferences, food traditions, and cultural context shape what people choose to eat? Carefully designed future studies could explore these patterns and their relevance to diet-related health questions.
TasteTwins is not a medical or nutritional tool and has no validated clinical outcomes. Research would require separate consent, privacy safeguards, governance, expert collaboration, and study design. Product use does not establish research consent.
DEVELOPMENT RECORD
Progress you can
look at.
Dated catalog and public development evidence. These milestones describe work completed; they are not measures of adoption, validation, or a public app release.
LOVE SALONE, L.L.C. formed in Maryland.
First working TasteTwins build.
TasteTwins private testing began via TestFlight.
Android build of TasteTwins started.
TasteTwins catalog snapshot
1,475 canonical places, 956 menu items, and 2,005 image records. Read the dated snapshot and its limits.
Native TasteTwins interface captures
iPhone simulator screenshots document the native interface with sample content. View the screenshot source details.
Love Salone company website published
The company, founder story, product work, and future partnership interests became available at lovesalone.com.
The Gauntlet native battle recording
A 22.4-second simulator recording shows the Sacred Calf and Cinder Talon encounter. Watch the development demonstration.
SOS community-software presentation expanded
Resident feed, community forum, and moderator views are presented together with fictional-data labels. Explore all three views.
WHAT SUPPORT ENABLES
More representation.
Better evidence.
We welcome discussions about supporting the next stage of TasteTwins. These are proposed priorities; no funding award, research partnership, or delivery date is claimed.
Learn from private testing.
Evaluate usability and accessibility, gather permissioned feedback, and test compute approaches for dish description and matching before making scale or accuracy claims.
Define a responsible study.
Work toward a scoped research question, consent materials, privacy controls, governance, and a study design that can produce useful evidence.
Next, not yet completed: broader catalog review, structured beta feedback, and evaluation of The Gauntlet’s planned TasteTwins connection. Timing depends on development and the evidence gathered.
PARTNER WITH LOVE SALONE
Good questions
deserve collaborators.
We welcome culturally grounded perspectives from food and community partners, researchers, technology collaborators, investors, and grant reviewers.
Food & community
Help us understand how dishes, food traditions, and shared dining decisions should be represented.
Contact Love Salone ↗Research & technology
Discuss a question, evaluation method, or carefully scoped future collaboration.
Start a conversation ↗Investors & grant reviewers
Review the company, dated development evidence, and proposed support priorities.
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