I was thinking a few days ago about how PG has attracted volunteers from all over the world from different backgrounds, and I got to thinking that it might be kind of fun if PG were to compile a cookbook containing the favorite recipes from our volunteers. Since, in most cases, recipes can't be copyrighted, there shouldn't be any problem in that regard. I'll bet we could get a pretty sizable and diverse collection if we put the word out on this list and at DP. Anyway, it's just an idea. Thoughts? Any interest? Sincerely Aaron Cannon -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)
I was thinking a few days ago about how PG has attracted volunteers from all over the world from different backgrounds, and I got to thinking that it might be kind of fun if PG were to compile a cookbook containing the favorite recipes from our volunteers. Since, in most cases, recipes can't be copyrighted, there shouldn't be any problem in that regard. I'll bet we could get a pretty sizable and diverse collection if we put the word out on this list and at DP.
I'd be more than happy to compile this into a mobile version using Plucker, to beam/share with anyone who cares to read and distribute it. I've done quite a few for many other projects, which you can see some screenshots and samples of here: http://code.plkr.org/ Just let me know when its ready and I'll do the conversion to Plucker format (its not usually a straight-up conversion, in most cases, it requires some reformatting of the contents, adding a TOC, and many other subtle things). David A. Desrosiers desrod@gnu-designs.com http://gnu-designs.com
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I was thinking a few days ago about how PG has attracted volunteers from all over the world from different backgrounds, and I got to thinking that it might be kind of fun if PG were to compile a cookbook containing the favorite recipes from our volunteers. Since, in most cases, recipes can't be copyrighted, there shouldn't be any problem in that regard. I'll bet we could get a pretty sizable and diverse collection if we put the word out on this list and at DP.
Sounds like a fun idea. However, I thought PG policy was to not publish previously unpublished works? Do I remember that correctly, and, if so, how would that influence this project? Perhaps PG needs to have a sister project with almost exactly the same goals, except that it will publish Vanity Press. Or were you talking about volunteers taking their recipes from the cookbooks in PG? -- branko collin collin@xs4all.nl
Branko Collin wrote:
I was thinking a few days ago about how PG has attracted volunteers from all over the world from different backgrounds, and I got to thinking that it might be kind of fun if PG were to compile a cookbook containing the favorite recipes from our volunteers.
However, I thought PG policy was to not publish previously unpublished works? Do I remember that correctly, and, if so, how would that influence this project?
Perhaps PG needs to have a sister project with almost exactly the same goals, except that it will publish Vanity Press.
This has already been done: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook Of course, I could come up with better Italian recipes than they :-) -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
The main idea of the project would be to recognize the diverse variety of volunteers, and not just put together a collection of recipes. Still, the point about the vanity publishing is a good one. Sincerely Aaron Cannon At 05:06 PM 6/27/2005, you wrote:
Branko Collin wrote:
I was thinking a few days ago about how PG has attracted volunteers from all over the world from different backgrounds, and I got to thinking that it might be kind of fun if PG were to compile a cookbook containing the favorite recipes from our volunteers.
However, I thought PG policy was to not publish previously unpublished works? Do I remember that correctly, and, if so, how would that influence this project? Perhaps PG needs to have a sister project with almost exactly the same goals, except that it will publish Vanity Press.
This has already been done:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook
Of course, I could come up with better Italian recipes than they :-)
-- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
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Definately some interest from me, Aaron :) Got quite a few recipes I CAN share, including that for my world-famous(I hope) chocolate chip cookies! :) Jared Aaron Cannon wrote on 6/26/2005, 7:24 PM:
I was thinking a few days ago about how PG has attracted volunteers from all over the world from different backgrounds, and I got to thinking that it might be kind of fun if PG were to compile a cookbook containing the favorite recipes from our volunteers. Since, in most cases, recipes can't be copyrighted, there shouldn't be any problem in that regard. I'll bet we could get a pretty sizable and diverse collection if we put the word out on this list and at DP.
Anyway, it's just an idea. Thoughts? Any interest?
Sincerely Aaron Cannon
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Aaron Cannon <cannona@fireantproductions.com> writes:
I was thinking a few days ago about how PG has attracted volunteers from all over the world from different backgrounds, and I got to thinking that it might be kind of fun if PG were to compile a cookbook containing the favorite recipes from our volunteers. Since, in most cases, recipes can't be copyrighted, there shouldn't be any problem in that regard. I'll bet we could get a pretty sizable and diverse collection if we put the word out on this list and at DP.
Anyway, it's just an idea. Thoughts? Any interest?
This reminds me of a story. Back in the 90's a friend of mine was doing an environmental study for China Light & Power or the Hong Kong Gov. They were trying to put together a inventory of species of fish in Hong Kong waters. Finding the latin and English names for the fish was easy, but they were supposed to do everything in both English and Chinese so they went around the office asking people for the Chinese names for the different types of fish. No one could seem to remember the names for any of the fish but all of them could think of a recipes for each fish..... It turned out that there was no agreement on names and that each little fishing village and southern dialect had their own names for each type of fish. In the end they gave up and proposed making a cookbook of the recipes everyone had offered. I never heard if anything came of the cookbook.... b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand
Brad Collins wrote:
Back in the 90's a friend of mine was doing an environmental study for China Light & Power or the Hong Kong Gov. They were trying to put together a inventory of species of fish in Hong Kong waters. Finding the latin and English names for the fish was easy, but they were supposed to do everything in both English and Chinese so they went around the office asking people for the Chinese names for the different types of fish.
No one could seem to remember the names for any of the fish but all of them could think of a recipes for each fish..... It turned out that there was no agreement on names and that each little fishing village and southern dialect had their own names for each type of fish.
In the end they gave up and proposed making a cookbook of the recipes everyone had offered. I never heard if anything came of the cookbook....
Which reminds me of one of my favourite quotes by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh: "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." Cheers, Holden
Holden McGroin <holden.mcgroin@dsl.pipex.com> writes:
Brad Collins wrote:
Which reminds me of one of my favourite quotes by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh:
"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
Interesting. When I was working in Beijing I heard the entire quote a number of times in Mandarin. In Hong Kong it's usually shortened to something like "the Chinese will eat anything with four legs except a chair", with some pride, I might add. I wonder if the quote is originally Chinese and perhaps heard by the Duke from someone like Governor Wilson (who was known to have some what of a clue about local culture) as opposed to Chris Patton who was only made gov to piss off the mainland. Sorry, I know this is getting even further OT..... b/ -- Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org>, Bangkok, Thailand
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