Hello Paul!



11 Sep 93 19:57, Paul Edwards wrote to All:



 PE> I have started up a new archive called pdrecipe.  It has public domain

 PE> recipes in it (for cooking food).  This is the cooking book to end all

 PE> cooking books.  EVERYONE knows how to cook something, so please ask your

 PE> mum/sister/wife how to cook something and add it to the list.  There are

 PE> no excuses for this one, you all have a chance to contribute something to

 PE> the world, and get your name "in print" for ETERNITY.  It
will likely be

 PE> spread all over the world, so get in NOW while there's only one recipe in

 PE> it!  No recipe will be rejected (unless it is dangerous, like involving

 PE> battery acid), as it is up to the end-user if they actually want to use

 PE> it. Suggestions on format changes are naturally welcome.  BFN.



I can't see this working for a number of reasons Paul. For starters,

there's already at least one CD-ROM title available with thousands of

recipes. And I don't think women (lets face it women are going to be

80-90% of the target audience of this idea) are generally keen to fire up

a PC and database just to find recipes. My opinion is that they'd prefer

to browse through a glossy book which has pictures of what the finished

product may look like.



The last thing to keep in mind is that women get a lot of their recipe

ideas from dinner parties and stuff where they have actually tasted and

seen what the finished product will be like. I can't see them trusting a

recipe sight unseen from your archive which may have been put there by

someone with a strange sense of taste or whatever. And lets face it, if

you want this thing to be spread all over the world, you'll have to

realize that not all nationalities and races would agree on the things

that tickle their tastebuds.





Alan...



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