wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (03/12/84)
First off, let me vote most strongly for anyone posting a vegetarian recipe to post it to BOTH net.cooks and net.veg. There's a reason that hasn't been mentioned -- I plan on passing printed copies of net.veg on to a vegetarian friend (I'm an omnivore) who will see them in large batches a few times a year when he gets the copies via US Snail. I really would rather not feel compelled to ALSO make special message-by-message extracts from net.cooks to feel that I am giving him a complete package. Don't others of you pass this info outside the circle of us computerniks or suchlike who have direct access to the netnews? It's so much easier to do this when you can print out a group as a whole. Now, another topic: Please post your recommendations for cookbooks worthwhile to vegetarians. I just had the irritating experience of buying (mail-order) a cookbook to give to the aforementioned vegetarian friend entitled "MEATLESS MAIN DISHES" and then finding out to my annoyance that more than half of it was fish and seafood recipes. I guess I've been so long exposed to vegetarianism through associated friends who have been everything from vegans to sheltonites that, to me, "meatless" means "fishless", "fowlless", and is about synonymous with "ovo/lacto/vegetarian". I forgot that the American tradition of "meatless" is probably 90% Catholic Friday meals from before Vatican II! Salmon cakes and tunafish salad... Anyway, if you know of any worthwhile vegetable cookbooks -- maybe mainstream cookery, not just the vegetarian and health-food speciality press -- and especially those that show up remaindered and cheap on the special sales tables at bookstores or in the mail-order catalogs, like Publisher's Central Bureau, please pass the word. I'll dig through my collection and get something posted soon myself. Will Martin