John Knouse wrote:
I find this whole recipe argument kind of odd.
What's wrong
with sample recipes? Someone can, for instance, read the
article about tapioca and not get a very complete
understanding of it. But a recipe that the reader can make
can provide a far more complete understanding of tapioca.
I think it's because despite their textual appearance, recipes are
a lot more like images than articles. For instance, most people also
don't like articles consisting only of an image, and the level of
editing allowed for each is severely constrained; people would
object to me rearranging image contents with a photo editor as much
as if I tripled the salt in a recipe because I like everything salty.
In fact, Auntie Bea's recipe very nearly needs to be handled as a
source document, in that doing much more than spelling fixes amounts
to changing it into something that is no longer her recipe.
Here's a possibility: have a Wikibooks cookbook
that all
the food articles can link to (that is, pointing to specific
recipes).
The Wikibook seems like a good idea in general. Joy of Cooking
notwithstanding, not everybody wants to wade through the history
of chocolate cake before finding out how many eggs are needed. :-)
Stan