I agree with Sabine, Giuseppe Guillaume, Sj, & al.: Recipes do belong in Wikipedia -- they are excellent sources of cultural information. The appropriate level of detail for the recipe may of course vary between articles: A recipe for "pinnekjøt(t)" (typical of (mostly) one region of Norway) is relatively easy to write down, and the variants are similar enough to each other that one can keep it short and clear. A recipe for "haroset" (typical of almost all Jewish cultures) is obviously going to be a much harder task with all its variety... If someone just enters a recipe, the challenge is to expand the article to contain something more than that -- not to take away the important cultural information that has been offered in the form of that recipe. In my not-so-humble opinion, that is... :)
-Olve
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