Conference turris::cooks

     In addition to the recipes, it might be fun to include a little history
or background on how the recipe was obtained or anything else of interest.

     For instance, if you passed down the recipe for corn bread that is said
to have been what Robert E. Lee ate before he went to battle, it would make
the recipe a little more fun.

     You get the idea.

Denise

I have received several requests to add new keywords to this conference.
Since my time is very limited (I can only afford to look in on this conference
once a week or so), and because I favor a laissez-faire (sp?) approach to
NOTES, I have removed the restriction on keyword creation.  Now anybody can
create a keyword if they wish.  Please do SHOW KEYWORDS first to see if a
similar keyword already exists, and exercise sane judgement.  We'll try
unrestricted keyword creation for a while and see how it goes.  If you think
it's becoming a problem, let me know via MAIL and the issue can be revisited.

--PSW, COOKS moderator

    	It is easier to understand and enjoy the Colorado notes 
    VAX Notes Conference better if you know some of the commands and rules 
    which could help you find the Topics you want to read and respond to.  
    Please read all of the following instructions before participating 
    further in the Colorado Conference:
          
    	To find a Topic in CO, write this command at the Notes> prompt in 
    the upper left corner of the screen (with it being understood that you 
    then press the RETURN key after writing this and most of the other 
    commands listed here):
    
    			DIR/TITLE=topicname
    
    	To view Topic titles in the Conference Directory in list form, 
    write:
    
    			DIR LAST-1 or DIR 1-LAST
    
    	If looking through the Directory for a particular Topic fails, 
    write this command example:
    
    			SEARCH Skiing
    
    	This will take you to the very first mention of Skiing in the 
    Conference.  Continue to write (or call up) the command SEARCH (you 
    do not have to write the name of the item you are looking for again, 
    until you start looking for a new item), and it will take you 
    continuously to the next reference to Skiing
        
    	To set the CO Conference so that you can read and keep up 
    with the latest Replies and Topics in CO write this command:
    
     			SET SEEN/BEFORE=YESTERDAY

        Then when you want to read the most recent Noters' entries in the 
    Conference, press the ENTER key from now on.    
    

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    press CONTROL Z, create your title, and press RETURN again (it is similar 
    to REPLY).
    
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              SET PROFILE/PERSONAL_NAME="Clever phrase."

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    correct location in the Conference.  Please do *not* enter commentaries 
    which are *not* about and/or related to CO.  Such items will be removed 
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    offensive words or phrases, as such a Note will be removed immediately 
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    or problems about VAX Notes which you are unable to answer yourself, 
    please contact the Moderator about them - do *not* write them in the 
    Conference, as they too will be removed and returned to you.

        It is a good idea to just READ through the Conference at first for 
    a while, to get a feel of what CO Topics exist and where they are 
    located - and what has already been written - before replying, or 
    writing your own Topic.

        To learn more about KEYPAD commands, just press the PF2 key when 
    in Notes.  For more detailed information on Notes in general, 
    write the command HELP when in Notes.  Also, I highly suggest 
    reading the SAMPLE_CONFERENCE (NOTES$SAMPLE) Conference, which is 
    automatically supplied with every Notesfile in your VAX Notes Main 
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    Manual (Order Number AI-G98HA-TE), which can be ordered through your 
    Secretary. 
              
    	These are just a few VAX Notes commands and rules, but they are 
    the most helpful, and they naturally apply to *all* of the VAX Notes 
    Conferences.  They will help you participate in SF better, and I hope 
    you enjoy the Notes!

    I pulled the previous information out of the Colorado notes file
    which I am the moderator for.  It is a simple help file which will
    help the novice noters to be able to navigate through the notes system
    a little easier.  I did not edit it to reflect cooks so it will
    still mention Colorado.  I have also write locked this file so if
    you have any questions just type SEND/AUTHOR and the notes utility
    will invoke the mail utility and you can send me mail.

      Steve (a moderator of another file)

    If you are a new noter or are just new to COOKS, please read thru note
    2007. This note give lots of very helpful information on how to find
    things in this file. Please use the information in this note before
    asking whether a particular recipe exists in here or not. This is a
    very large file and those sort of notes tend to clutter it up.

    Note 2007 can also be found by doing DIR/KEYWORD=HELP at the Notes>
    prompt.

    Tamzen

Recently, there have been several replies of the "ugh, that's disgusting!" sort
in response to posted recipes or types of food.

Please, let's keep in mind that we all have our likes/dislikes/prejudices
regarding the food we eat, and that these differ widely from culture to culture
and person to person.

--PSW, COOKS moderator

Please welcome Danielle Hache as co-moderator of COOKS.  I've recently
received several suggestions that this conference be better organized (e.g.,
merge all the zucchini topics) so that when people want to look up a recipe,
all the info will be in one note.  Danielle has volunteered to take on the
work of merging the topics and moving the furniture around so that we have a
better organized, more usable COOKS conference.

--PSW

    
    Hi.  
    
    This is a plea from your new co-moderator!  There is alot of
    "furniture" to be moved around.  Please bear with me as I fumble and
    make alot of noise.  I have spent the past week creating lists of
    topics to be moved (so that I'm not moving anything haphazzardly) and
    some of the topics are very intimidating (do you know how many apple
    anythings we have in here? And check out the Official Turkey Note! 5.*) 
    
    Anyway, while in the past it has not been the policy of the moderators  
    to write-lock things, I have talked to Paul about it, and we agreed
    that during this transitional phase, new notes created that could have
    been included in other already existing discussions will be temporarily
    write-locked.  You (the author) are free to disagree with me (one of
    you already has successfully disagreed with me).  My goal is not to  be
    a dictator, but to save myself the extra work of moving another note
    that could have been in the original note from the start.
    
    Thanks to those of you who have written with encouragement and
    suggestions.  
    
    Here's to a usable and manageable COOKS Notesfile!
    
    Thanks!
    dm

    
    The Re-Organization of COOKS has been going well.  I really can see the
    light at the end of this tunnel, it's not too  far off now! 
     
    I really appreciate the support and encouragement I have received from
    many of you, and I want to especially thank Ed Fisher who is working as
    hard as I am at this project.  Many times I ask  him to find things for
    me, or run lists of things and he is  always willing and very
    resourceful.  He also helps in pointing people to existing discussions
    which saves me alot of work.
    
    I am pleased to tell you that starting tomorrow (hopefully, if I did
    everything right) note 5.0 in this conference will be a directory of
    all the topics that have been written.  Larry Vigneault deserves the
    credit for this.  He sent me the batch program and hand held me through
    starting the process.  We'll know tomorrow whether or not I listened
    straight!
    
    Thanks Ed and Larry for your help, and to everyone else for your
    patience and encouragement!
    
    dm
    co-mod
    

Lately, there's been a rash of postings of the alleged "Neiman-Marcus" or
"Mrs. Field's" chocolate chip cookie recipe.  The recipe always comes with a
story about how somebody got bilked out of a lot of money paying for the
recipe and is now widely circulating it in retaliation.  THIS STORY IS NOT
TRUE - IT IS AN URBAN LEGEND.

In any event, the cookie recipe (which is quite good, actually) has been
posted in this conference too many times for us to remember already.  It is
in note 245.  WE DON'T NEED ANY MORE COPIES OF IT IN THIS CONFERENCE.  PLEASE
DON'T POST IT AGAIN.

--PSW, COOKS moderator

Danielle Hache has done a bang-up job of putting this conference into some
semblence of organization.  Now that most of the major topics have been
coalesced, we're ready to tackle putting the keywords in order.  To help in
the reorganization of the keywords, new keyword creation has been restricted.
You can apply existing keywords to notes, but you can't create any new
keywords.  If you feel that a new keyword is needed, please contact the
moderators and we'll add it for you.

--PSW, COOKS moderator

    I just wanted to write a quick note to all the COOKS out there
    who have been patient and encouraging to me while I've been out
    on disability.  It didn't impact COOKS to much until they cut
    the phone lines into my system and I couldn't log in from home.
    I am especially encouraged that after two months of not logging
    in, COOKS still looks pretty great.  (I did kind of expect the
    worst).  In a few weeks my group moves to PKO where the phone
    lines work, so I can log in from home again.  I'm in my office 
    (for the time being) on Tuesdays and Thursdays if you need me for
    anything.
    
    Thanks again!
    
    Danielle Marie
    co-mod

    I'd like to welcome Mike Wolinski as new co moderator of COOKS.
    He's been doing the directories and a few other things for a while
    now.  I'd like to thank Paul Winalski for letting me help out as
    comoderator for a while and try to keep up the organization
    set up by Danielle Hache.  Apparently Danielle is not returning
    from her long term disability.
    
    Since I am no longer a Digital employee -- merely one of those 'other
    persons' with legitimate access to the enet for a while longer --
    it would be inapproriate for me to continue to act as comoderator.
    Thus I am removing myself from the list of moderators.
    
    Meanwhile, I have a couple of zinger Vidalia recipes I've been meaning
    to enter before I lose access entirely.
    
    ed, retiring COOKS comoderator

    
    
          I'd like to welcome Diane DesMaisons as a new co-moderator of
        COOKS.
    
    
        -mike