So Cebra was over last weekend and was marveling at Debbie's collection of cookbooks. I of course took the opportunity to complain, as I frequently do, that Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything does not, in fact, tell you how to cook everything. Elephant? Rattlesnake? I don't think so.
"Have you heard about the new Encyclopedia of Life?" he asked.
"Sure," I said. "They want to catalog every species on the planet...."
And then it hit me what he was getting at. What the EOL needs to be truly successful?
Recipes.
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Good call: I've always felt that time capsules should pay more attention to mundane aspects of life by including items like grocery lists and favorite recipes.
By the way, James Peterson's book on fish is a bible in our house.
Comment #1 :: link :: May 18, 2007 01:33 PMWell we'd need to be careful that our grocery lists didn't end up as holy relics....
Comment #2 :: link :: May 18, 2007 01:51 PM
