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I recently returned from forn parts (Montreal for those that care. Verdict - like good bits from Paris and New York with the formers delicious food and the latters healthy regard to smoked meats, Jewish cusine and large sandwiches. And no Starbucks that I noticed.) For reasons unknown I was on the Sat-Sun Redeye and, as such, I spent Sunday reeling like a Zombie and Sunday nigth I scarfed some Melatonin and slept the sleep of someone having strange nightmares. 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. This is clearly a dumb and stupid idea and yet ... I'm finding it strangely compelling. I quite like the idea of a programmer orientated cook book in the pseduo-style of Learning Perl et al, with little side bars for tips'n'tricks such as "If your dish is too salty then you can add milk", "whisk some butter into a sauce to make it glossy", "if you've got no sour cream add lemon juice and baking soda to normal cream", "to get griddle marks simply ..." Am I crack fuelled? Does this tickle any one else's fancy? Would any body else like to work on it? Any idea to put in a pitch document? Simon
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