Hi Ruth!
On Monday, 6 October 1997, 00:23:52, Ruth Hanschka wrote to Laurent de
Fontenay:
 RH> Hi there. Just an odd question; for which reason don't
 RH> cookbooks work for you? There are a lot of vision-impaired people
 RH> in the Cooking echoes; I know one does have a Braille cookbook, but
 RH> his one book takes up more shelf space than most Americans have in
 RH> their kitchens. There may also be some people with dyslexia around
 RH> too; I know what reading is like for people with that one. I went
 RH> through college with two guys who had it. Me, I'm just an ordinary
 RH> computer freak cook in glasses.:-)
Like you, I'm just a computer freek.  Don't cook much, because Mummy
does that. :-)  But at least, when I do, its somthing good. :-)
Your first guess was correct:  I'm blind and using recipies on computer
is much more practical than having heaps of books [not in the kitchen,
but in my room!]  My Bible takes up one shelf and not to mention all the
schoolbooks!  [I'm in my final year]
 LdF>> Where do you get all of them? What is Mealmaster?
 RH> I have no idea where Gigi gets all of those recipes, but the
 RH> Internet is a good place to start - places like www.cookbooks.com,
 RH> and http://soar.berkeley.edu. The latter has a ton of recipes
 RH> already in MealMaster format. Mealmaster is a computerized
 RH> cookbook, for all intents and purposes. It's a specialized database
 RH> that, if I remember correctly, will resize and give nutritional
 RH> breakdowns for most recipes. It's also shareware, and I'm told
 RH> registering it can be worthwhile, especially if you have A LOT of
 RH> recipes.:)
That sounds extremely useful.  I'll definitely try to find it.
 RH> What do you like to cook? I'm mostly an oven type, but branch
 RH> out to stovetops when the mood strikes. [aka when I want something
 RH> to eat! ]
                :-)
                I enjoy making pasta, inventing my own sauces.  Like
                most men I like improvising with ingredients and
                literally following my nose! :-)
I like browsing this echo just to get new ideas I can incorporate into
my stuff.  I also routinely save all the messages addressed to "all" to
try and build up a recipe database for the day I need to take such
matters seriously.
Stay well!
Laurent
Internet : laurent@dogwatch.iafrica.com
.!. Ultimate oxymoron:  "Cash Surplus"
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