The Open Source Cookbook?

InspectorPraline asks: "I'm currently working on a cookbook that is intended to provide good food at a reasonable price - the kind of stuff you'd make before sitting down for a long coding session, with the occasional idea that would feed a LAN party. I've got some ideas I can put down, but the book would be quite thin, so I thought I'd put the call for submissions to Slashdot. I'm calling it 'The Open Source Cookbook,' and I'd release it under the GFDL, in PDF, ASCII text, and Word formats. Of course, I'd take submissions as comments here or via email. I'd 'publish' the book via the web once I got enough submissions to make the book at least about 40-50 pages in length or 30 recipes (whichever comes last), and as submissions came in I'd update the book. Anyway, I'm asking for submissions for the book, which could be recipes for dinners, lunches, even drinks. Two webpages that will serve as temporary homes for the project can be found here and here, and those addresses list my email as well as some submission guidelines. So, any ideas, folks?" Hey, if you ever wanted to share your favorite dishes with geeks around the world, this might be the way to do it. What great dishes have you prepared?

Comments

Check here first

[palme999]

Might check the following when Slashdot did an earlier article on a "Geek Food" cookbook by arstechnica.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/01/142324 1

ehhh

[MisterBlister]

Aren't there like a billion cooking/recipe sites already? Untold number of geocities homepages with Aunt Maude's favorite dishes? Geeks eat pretty much the same food as everyone else (though some clearly eat more than others!).. I don't really see the need for this. Is Big Business trying to snuff out free trade of recipies? Does everything need to be equated to the Open Source movement?

Jeez.

Repeat story

[knodi]

Been there, done that

Not an EXACT duplicate, but the answer to his question is "rip off every recipe mentioned in this book".

Been done.

Wanna do it better? Listen to the poster who said you should make a web accessible database of recipes. Then anyone can search based on available ingredients ("what can I make with this crap in my pantry?"), dish-name ("what can I bring to a theme-potluck?"), and holiday affilation (obvious applications).

Poseur

[Beatlebum]

>> good food at a reasonable price - the kind of stuff you'd make before sitting down for a long coding session

I would like to beat you about the head with a large frying pan, you pathetic wannabe, wank-stain. "Long coding session", give me a fucking break, why did you have to work that in? Why don't you stop playing with your dick and instead concentrate on moving out of your parent's place. Real coders get one with business and *code*. btw what have you written during these long coding sessions? My guess is your sessions consist of jacking to bangbus mpegs. Loser.

The SPAM Cookbook

[Preposterous Coward]

I can't believe nobody has suggested a variation on any of these recipes. (The originals, I assume, are copyrighted ;-)

Re:What lacks in cookbooks

[Bush Pig]

That's actually bullshit. Like coding, you _have_ to start from a list of simple instructions before you can learn do anything creative. Also, using a recipe means you get the same result as last time without having to re-invent anything. (Kind of like cut'n'pasting shellsort if you can't be bothered re-writing it from memory.)

BTW, I have a dynamite recipe for chilli con skippy which I'll share if I ever get around to writing it down.