We all have seen IBM’s Watson playing hard and crushing players in Jeopardy. Now, it’s time to see the super computer cooking and playing in the kitchen with ingredients, spices, and condiments. Yes, the world of haute cuisine is one in which IBM would like to make a robotic incursion. Debuting as the very Californian Chef, Watson has already put a tiny part of its mind into creating something called the Spanish Crescent, that without any butter (Sounds like healthy eating?).

This so-called Spanish Crescent is a collaboration of Watson’s software and James Briscione, a chef instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education in Manhattan. Chef Briscione created a list of ingredients and built dishes for Watson. Watson has read those notes, 20,000 recipes, data on the chemistry of food ingredients, and measured ratings of flavors people like in categories like “olfactory pleasantness.” So, when an assignment was given to Watson to create some unusual and healthy, he came out with ingredients like cocoa, saffron, black pepper, almonds and honey.

“Artificial intellegence research has a lot of inroads into human-centric behaviors,” says SiliconANGLE assistant editor Kyt Dotson. “For example, an xkcd comic strip about a genetic algorithm creating food recipes could be done with Watson–albeit probably a lot better than the ‘disgusting’ beginning. Food is a definite example of the application of Big Data and convergent intelligence  by collecting the preferences of numerous food eaters from a particular audience and comparing the chemistry that makes food taste the way it does Watson should be a brilliant platform for making a top-notch hit meal.”

By debuting into kitchen, Watson has expanded its specialized domains. Just recently pitching into healthcare, IBM and WellPoint announced a new Watson-based healthcare offering, helping hospitals improve patient treatment quality by applying natural language processing to medical data. Watson made its entry to the healthcare industry in September last year, when IBM first announced its partnership with WellPoint. Cedars-Sinai’s cancer research unit started using the supercomputer to provide better treatment for patients in December.