reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) (05/18/86)
I have received only two unsolicited submissions to mod.recipes in 6 weeks. If this trend continues we will all starve to death. You folks in Europe: you made a lot of noises about metric conversions when this group first started being sent to Europe. So I did a lot of work and now the recipes can be printed in grams and milliliters as well as in useful things like cups and spoons. Has anybody in Europe submitted a recipe yet? No. Of course, I haven't yet gotten around to writing the reverse-conversion software, that will input a recipe in grams and milliliters and add the cups and spoons. Maybe I won't have to write it.... You folks in Australia: I have a recipe for damper, and two for Pavlova, that are queued up to go out. Do you eat anything else down there? I'm sorely tempted to put in a fake pommie parody of an Australian recipe, playing on all of our strange Northern Hemisphere prejudices of what life is like down there. Koala meat poached in beer? Do you really have shrimps the size of rabbits? And you folks in Louisiana and Nebraska and Ohio and Maryland and Michigan and other spots where I know there are mod.recipes readers. Do you have recipes? Do you cook? If you are worried, somehow, about whether or not a recipe is "good enough", please don't. Let me do the worrying. If you are worried about whether it is original, please don't. Let me do that worrying. Old family recipes are usually the best, but something that you cut out of the Weekend Food section of last year's St. Lous Post-Dispatch, or the Lansing State Journal or L'Express is also OK. Just tell me where you got it, and make sure you include some commentary about how much you like it and how you have served it. As a teaser, let me make an offer to you European and Australian readers. Send me two or more "old family recipes". Something your grandmother used to cook at Candlemas or Bastille Day, perhaps. To each of the first two people from Europe and Australia who do this, I will send a notebook full of nice, clean, laser-printed copies of every recipe in the mod.recipes database (currently there are 147 recipes there). Laser-printed copies are *so* much nicer than sending nroff output to a printronix, aren't they? (This offer is not available in any store, and is void where prohibited.) Brian p.s.--I have queued submissions from the following people, waiting their turn to go out: mtuni!mgh, adobe!shore, sysvis!george, alice!jj, tektronix!moiram, esunix!loosemor, felix!bob, hpda!jrg, navajo!mogul, sftig!susan, lll-crg!bandy, uiucuxc!paul, utastro!anita, diablo!morris, pta!alix, murdu!stephenw, brown!jfh, chronon!petolino, hplabs!oday, utai!gkloker, rtech!jeff, mtxinu!ed