[Wikipedia-l] Re: Recipe

Fri Jan 21 07:10:50 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

>Michael Snow (wikipedia at earthlink.net) [050121 14:33]:
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>>Also, the way we traditionally handle certain types of POV - one of the 
>>main complaints about recipes - is by attributing that POV to a credible 
>>source (not by removing it entirely). A recipe from a standard cookbook 
>>for a given style of cuisine, or from a noteworthy cook (not your Aunt 
>>Tillie, in other words), can satisfy this angle too.
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>I think I am about to go wild with my (precioussssss) Bee Nilson.
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Who in the world is Bee Nilson, and why isn't there a Wikipedia article 
about her when I want to look her up?

Sorry, playing the ignorant American for a bit there. But this just 
illustrates how woefully undercovered cooking topics are, along with 
almost all other traditionally "domestic" subjects, which is partly why 
we're having this whole debate over recipes for the nth time now. If we 
had decent encyclopedia articles about these things, which is almost 
never the case, then it would be less of an issue. I think a lot of the 
visceral objection to recipes is based on the fact that they frequently 
overwhelm the remaining content of the article, especially if the 
instructions are given in significant detail.

--Michael Snow