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Re: Cookbook - archive search

From:Elliott Lash <al260@...>
Date:Monday, July 2, 2001, 4:25
In a message dated Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:20:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Aidan Grey
<frterminus@...> writes:

<< --- Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
> Conlanging and cooking interests don't > seem to go together, do they? Or are > conlangers shy about putting up recipes? > Even ones we humans couldn't possibly > concoct!
Actually, as Shreyas pointed out, they do. My search in the archive found LOTS of references to the cookbook, and people's ideas to put in, and so on - just no actual recipes! Vocabulary seemed to be a major problem point. To be honest, while the languages would be exceedingly wonderful, I'd be willing to incorporate recipes without the conlangs, if there was a good amount of social and cultural info on the dish (or "memories" of when "my egg-layer used to make this for me from the freshest asdkjlf available - excellent!") I wouldn't even mind simple culinary descriptions of various cultures, no recipes, no conlangs. Really, a good cookbook has a little bit of all of this. On an semi-unrelated note, I have this idea that we could call the cookbook "The Secret Vice of Cooking". ;) haha!! Great suggestion :) I'll be happy to contribute, If I can just find out some more names for ingrediants...I don't think I even have a word for fruit yet in Silindion!! :( Elliott

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