MS> Sorry, playing the ignorant American for a bit there. But this just MS> illustrates how woefully undercovered cooking topics are, along with MS> almost all other traditionally "domestic" subjects, which is partly why MS> we're having this whole debate over recipes for the nth time now. If we MS> had decent encyclopedia articles about these things, which is almost MS> never the case, then it would be less of an issue. I think a lot of the MS> visceral objection to recipes is based on the fact that they frequently MS> overwhelm the remaining content of the article, especially if the MS> instructions are given in significant detail. MS> --Michael Snow
Well, I wouldn't have anything against recipes in Wikipedia - except that we have Wikibooks now, which is far more suited for that kind of information.