Re: [london.food] Cooking Hacks

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From: Billy Abbott
Subject: Re: [london.food] Cooking Hacks
Date: 11:20 on 13 Oct 2005

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Simon Wistow wrote:

> Oddly enough this, for some reason, gave me the idea to pitch a book to
> O'Reilly entitled "Cooking Hacks".
>
> The point of it would be to present cooking as being very much like
> hacking on code - you can cargo cult from recipes but it's better to
> understand why you're doing stuff, There's More Than One Way To Do It,
> etc etc.

I don't know if everyone's seen it already, but I found this blog a while 
back which sort of presses some of the same buttons:

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

billy

-- 
"There's plenty of room for God's creatures. Right next to the mashed potatoes"
  Billy Abbott                     billy at cowfish dot org dot uk

[london.food] Cooking Hacks Simon Wistow 10:42 on 13 Oct 2005
I recently returned from forn parts (Montreal for those that care.
- Re: [london.food] Cooking Hacks Rev Simon Rumble 10:50 on 13 Oct 2005
  I think that sounds like a great idea and I'd love to help write it!=20
  - David Cantrell 12:01 on 13 Oct 2005
    Umm, In the past they've published medical textbooks, and they recently
- Tony Kennick 11:02 on 13 Oct 2005
  the following was promulgated by Simon Wistow:
- Billy Abbott 11:20 on 13 Oct 2005
  I don't know if everyone's seen it already, but I found this blog a while
  - Rev Simon Rumble 11:45 on 13 Oct 2005
    Yeah it's not bad that one, but not as technical as I'd like!
    - too deep to show
- David Cantrell 11:55 on 13 Oct 2005
  No it bloody well isn't. It's a GREAT idea.
- Marna Gilligan 11:59 on 13 Oct 2005
  Great idea! And you could have all the science bits in; I love the science
- Richard van Oorschot 15:39 on 13 Oct 2005
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- Nigel Rantor 14:23 on 14 Oct 2005
  Yes.
  - Pete Sergeant 14:41 on 14 Oct 2005
    ME TOO
- Roger Burton West 14:36 on 14 Oct 2005
  I would love to work on this - there is a need for a cookery book for
  - Chris Heathcote 07:36 on 15 Oct 2005
    Well, many months ago a lfriend of a friend told me that they were
    - too deep to show

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