Aoineko

I can't imagine a consensus about an exhaustive list of references, so your definition moves the debate to "what a reference is?". Personally, I think the "reference" concept is not relevant outside of science domain. In science, the pertinence criteria are concrete: accuracy of formula and reproducibility of experience. What are the pertinence criteria for culture?

You are correct.

It could be

* whether the dish is famous or not * whether the recipe if tried is good or not good

First the fame of the dish could be measured by * First step : comments from people on the wikipedia itself * Second step : check on google over the name of the dish * Third step : comments from all wikipedians (a dish famous in zimbabwe will possibly not be recognised famous on the english wikipedia)

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this suggest the creation of a core list of famous dishes built between all encyclopedias

Any famous dish should present at least one typical recipe

Second, whether the dish recipe is rather representative * First step : comments by people who have already been doing the recipe of that dish * Second step : checking and comparing the recipe with available sources (should be rather easy for a big network of wikipedians, since the dish is famous)

The famous dish recipe should be refered as representative but not unique. Citing a famous cookbook OR a famous cook doing this recipe is possible.

Third, reproducibility and quality * First step : I suggest a team of testers be created... take pictures to improve the dishes... (I join !) * Second step : In 10 years, we have 20 WikiRestaurant opened in New York, Beijing, London etc... preparing dishes with Wikipedia recipes from all over the world

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The famous dish recipe on Wikipedia should advertise the restaurants... and use them as a source :-)

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