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Over the last 50 years I have collected masses of recipes, tips and various useful information, mostly on scraps of paper and latterly in documents on various computers. Yet whenever I tried to find the same information in one location, be it on the web or in books I could never find it. So, I decided to bring all of these things together in one place. Cookipedia! | Over the last 50 years I have collected masses of recipes, tips and various useful information, mostly on scraps of paper and latterly in documents on various computers. Yet whenever I tried to find the same information in one location, be it on the web or in books I could never find it. So, I decided to bring all of these things together in one place. Cookipedia! | ||
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Revision as of 15:18, 16 October 2008
Passion for cookery
Cookipedia was created because ever since Mum helped me cook my first omelette, I have been passionate about cooking.
Over the last 50 years I have collected masses of recipes, tips and various useful information, mostly on scraps of paper and latterly in documents on various computers. Yet whenever I tried to find the same information in one location, be it on the web or in books I could never find it. So, I decided to bring all of these things together in one place. Cookipedia!
Not exactly like Wikipedia
Although this is on a Wiki, whilst I have the utmost respect for Wikipedia, I really don't want Cookipedia to become academic in the sense that Wikipedia is. To my mind, the target visitor to this site is someone what wants to know that a substitute for onions in a recipe could be shallots, leeks or spring onions, not that when sliced they produce the volatile gas syn-propanethial-S-oxide. A recipe should be thing of passion, involving personal likes and dislikes, not just a factual list.
Correct it, or provide an alternative
With cooking, as with computer programming (for I have an interest!) there is more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI) - so, sure, if a recipe is plain wrong then correct it by all means. However, if you have a better or different one, publish it alongside, then everyone can try it out and be the judge.
Feel free to submit your recipes and ideas.
Publicicty
Cookipedia is labour of love that takes time and money to run. Publicity is all I ask. Please spread the word. Jerry
Why MediaWiki
I chose MediaWiki as a platform because it's open source software, it' the same platform that Wikipedia uses, it's free and thanks to constant improvements over the last four years, its pretty bullet-proof.
